Series

An examination of the data pipelines, messaging systems, storage layers, and failure semantics that power modern financial infrastructure and how to design systems that remain correct, reliable and interpretable over time.

A systems-level examination of how decentralized finance protocols are structured, how on-chain and off-chain systems interact and how deterministic execution meets economic incentives. Starting from architectural foundations, it moves into execution constraints, ordering markets, timing gaps, and stress dynamics.

An exploration of the principles that allow high-performance systems to cut response times from milliseconds to microseconds, from network paths and batching to cache locality and real-time C++ design.

What it actually takes to design, deploy, and operate trading systems under real-world constraints. It focuses on the things that matter once strategies leave notebooks and hit production.