Posts archive for November, 2024

Introduction In the ultra-competitive worlds of crypto arbitrage and high-frequency trading (HFT), every microsecond counts. Your algorithms are in a constant race against competitors to capitalize on fleeting opportunities. A mere microsecond delay can mean the difference between a profitable trade and a missed opportunity—or worse, a loss due to being outpaced by faster traders. The Challenge As a crypto arbitrageur, your strategies involve exploiting price discrepancies across multiple exchanges. Your algorithms gather information from two or more exchanges to execute contracts that ideally settle for a net gain. However, you’re not alone in this endeavor; competing algorithms are simultaneously […]

In today’s digital world, we all expect apps to work quickly and seamlessly, no lag, no waiting—just a smooth, efficient experience. For site reliability engineers (SREs) and data platform engineers, this is more than just a goal; it’s essential. These teams are tasked with making sure applications, databases, and systems perform well, meeting strict Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for latency and uptime. But keeping applications responsive and reliable can be a challenge, especially when those applications run in Kubernetes clusters. Kubernetes has become a go-to solution for containerizing and managing applications, and for good reason—it’s flexible and can handle scaling […]