Quit teasing Out with it. Sounds like fun with lots of real hackability and responsibility built in. Would love to hear more of what you can share.
You mention a SQL db - have you guys put something together of your own or are you using a pre-rolled db?
It is fun, can be a lot of pressure, and the sheer quantity of issues and the speed with which they must be dispatched means I always have to learn and I often screw up analysis. Humility and the ability to prod people who know stuff and grok what they say quickly is essential.
We use a major DB (not Oracle). Again, think unfashionable, think speedy.
Sorry, don't mean to tease - I just don't want people to be able to track me down.
The reason I ask is because I am a pretty highly skilled Oracle guy, and some of the numbers I have seen around financial systems just seem so fast and big volume transactions per second. Maybe I could get Oracle to do them, but then the zero downtime scares me somewhat as until very recently, keeping Oracle up all the time, even through application upgrades is fairly tricky!