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"CORTEX is our next generation platform that handles real-time financial data flows and notifications. Our stateless event-driven compute engine for dynamic data transforms is built entirely in Clojure and is crucial to our ability to provide a highly agile response to financial events."

Amazon is building a competitor to Bloomberg?

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That was my initial reading, too. Further searching for the CORTEX project revealed that it's probably an internal accounting system.

I'm thinking financial flow as in the billions of credit card transactions every year and financial events as possible chargebacks, refunds, purchases, that amazon runs into every second.

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