Industry Articles & Blog Posts

Practitioner perspectives on latency, trading infrastructure, and market microstructure.


Exchange Engineering

Coinbase: Building a Real-Time Trading Engine

Deep dives on matching engine architecture, latency optimization, and infrastructure.

Binance: Technology Behind High-Performance Trading

Engineering posts on handling millions of trades/second.

Jane Street: OCaml and Low-Latency Systems

Functional programming approaches to trading systems.


Infrastructure & Networks

Beeks Financial Cloud: The Geography of Latency

Proximity hosting, network paths, and latency measurement.

McKay Brothers: Millimeter Wave Networks for Trading

Microwave and millimeter wave network infrastructure.


Trading Firm Perspectives

Hudson River Trading: Engineering Blog

Algorithmic trading infrastructure and optimization.

Two Sigma: Technology Papers

Quantitative research and engineering insights.


Market Structure Commentary

Matt Levine: Money Stuff (Bloomberg)

Regular commentary on market microstructure and trading mechanics.

FT Alphaville

Financial markets analysis including HFT and market structure.

Alphacution: Research on Trading Firms

Quantitative analysis of prop trading firms and market structure.


To Add:

  • Mechanic trading infrastructure posts
  • Optiver engineering blog
  • DRW technology insights
  • IMC technology papers

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