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Until you work in financial markets and you want to measure latency vs a bunch of other servers you don't own, all of whom pick different smears (and some of wh
by lesam 2mo ago
Until you work in financial markets and you want to measure latency vs a bunch of other servers you don't own, all of whom pick different smears (and some of whom aren't sure in advance which smears).
- not-a-llm 2mo agofinancial markets dont trade when the smears happen (NYE)
- _alternator_ 2mo agoThey can happen mid-year too. They usually don't for this reason, but they can.
- weakened_malloc 2mo agoDepends on the market. Crypto and prediction markets wont stop.
- lesam 2mo agoEarly in my career, I had to babysit our FX quoting app through the July 2015 leap second. And some things do trade 24/7 (though I wish they wouldn't, one auction per minute during US east coast business hours would be totally sufficient for most US markets).