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API Server

The Zenith Feed Proxy collects streaming market and trading data, along with other related information, and exposes public-facing APIs for access.

Concepts

Section titled “Concepts”

Data comes in many forms and from multiple locations. It becomes necessary to aggregate these different sources into a consolidated view for front-end applications.

The Zenith Feed Proxy acts a like a reverse proxy for these internal sources, presenting them in a common format, enforcing data access security, and allowing for horizontal scaling.

Extensibility

Section titled “Extensibility”
  • Server Endpoint plugins.
    Add additional public-facing APIs by writing a server plugin.
  • Authentication plugins.
    Support additional authentication methods beyond OAuth Bearer tokens, such as SAML.
  • Extended Data plugins.
    Attach additional data to securities from external sources.

APIs

Section titled “APIs”
  • IQ API.
    A HTTP API accepting both text-based SQL-style queries, and JSON-based queries.
  • WebSocket API.
    A WebSocket API providing streaming data and inline data queries.