https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/systems/ Recent content in Systems on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Wed, 06 Jan 2016 10:31:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2016/01/when-the-scale-changes-moving-into-institutional-finance/ Wed, 06 Jan 2016 10:31:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2016/01/when-the-scale-changes-moving-into-institutional-finance/ Four years in a latency-obsessed trading environment, then a move to a large financial institution where the problems — and the constraints — were completely different. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2015/11/five-years-in-high-frequency-trading-what-i-actually-learned/ Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:03:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2015/11/five-years-in-high-frequency-trading-what-i-actually-learned/ Looking back at five years of low-latency systems work: what the environment teaches you that you can't learn elsewhere, and what habits it instils that don't always transfer cleanly to other domains. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2014/12/end-of-year-architecture-review-what-held-what-failed-what-changed/ Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:33:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2014/12/end-of-year-architecture-review-what-held-what-failed-what-changed/ A look back at three years of building HFT infrastructure: the components that held up under production load, the ones that were redesigned, and the architectural decisions I'd make differently now. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2012/09/latency-vs-throughput-the-false-dichotomy-i-learned-the-hard-way/ Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:33:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2012/09/latency-vs-throughput-the-false-dichotomy-i-learned-the-hard-way/ Optimising for throughput and optimising for latency are often portrayed as opposites. In practice they pull in different directions but are not mutually exclusive — and confusing them leads to systems that are bad at both.