Aladdin (BlackRock)


Aladdin is an electronic system by BlackRock Solutions, the risk management division of the largest investment management corporation, BlackRock, Inc. In 2013, it handled about $11 trillion in assets, which was about 7% of the world's financial assets, and kept track of about 30,000 investment portfolios.

Popular references

2016 documentary HyperNormalisation cites the Aladdin system as an example of how modern technocrats attempt to manage the complications of the real world.

Technology

Aladdin uses the following technologies, Linux, Java, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes, Zookeeper, Splunk, ELK Stack, Git, Apache, Nginx, Sybase ASE, Cognos, FIX, Swift, REST, AngularJS, TREP.
It is claimed that it was built using Julia, It has also been reported that written originally in C++, Java and Perl.