Market Microstructure & Global Systems

How Exchanges Turn Order Books into Distributed Logs

Part 1
Posted on Sat 06 December 2025

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Every modern exchange is a distributed database in disguise. This article reveals how trading engines transform chaotic streams of buy and sell orders into a perfectly ordered, replayable log, ensuring fairness, determinism, and market data reliability.


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