Series

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Distributed Systems in Finance
4 articles

This series covers the practical distributed systems that power financial infrastructure: messaging pipelines, storage architectures, observability, and deployment strategies. It explains how engineers design, scale, and operate systems that must stay reliable when money is on the line.


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Market Microstructure & Global Systems
1 article

This series examines how markets coordinate without a coordinator: global price convergence, order propagation, deterministic matching, and the distributed architecture behind modern exchanges. It reveals the systems that move liquidity, information, and risk across venues in real time.


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DeFi Engineering
2 articles

This series breaks down how real DeFi systems are built and where they break. It covers the core architecture of protocols, the infrastructure they rely on, the failure modes that have taken down major projects, and the engineering principles needed to design resilient systems.


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Low-Latency Fundamentals
3 articles

Learn how high-performance systems cut response times from milliseconds to microseconds. This series breaks down the core principles behind low-latency engineering: from network paths and batching to cache locality, contention, and real-time C++ design.


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Building Real Trading Systems
3 articles

This series documents what it takes to build, deploy, and operate real trading systems under real constraints. It focuses on the things that matter once strategies leave notebooks and hit production.