Architecting MarketPulse: A Deep Dive into a Enterprise-Grade Financial Sentiment Pipeline
Introduction: In modern finance, alpha isn't just in the numbers; it’s in the speed of interpreting text. While price data is structured, news is messy. MarketPulse is a Retrieval and Sentiment Analysis pipeline designed to automate the correlation between financial headlines and market volatility. The Problem: The "Context Gap" in Market Data Standard stock trackers tell you what happened, but rarely why . To build a system that understands the "why," I needed to bridge two different worlds: the Python data-science ecosystem and the TypeScript full-stack environment. Architectural Overview: The Ingestion-to-Insight Flow The system is built on a Producer-Consumer architecture, organized within a unified src/ directory to ensure maintainability: Automated Data Ingestion (The Producer): Using Python and GitHub Actions, I implemented hourly "Cron-Jobs" that fetch data from yfinance and various news feeds. This ensures the database stays fresh w...