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CppCon 2017: Carl Cook “When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++”

Optiver's Carl Cook explains how to build high-frequency trading systems in C++, where the critical path runs rarely but must be extremely fast. He covers techniques for low and predictable latency, including avoiding main memory and cache misses.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN repeatedly points people to it as the best overview of low-latency trading engineering.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
CppCon
Topic
low-latency trading systems
Format
talk
Level
advanced
HN recommenders in dataset
5
HN mentions in dataset
10
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Thanks for the praise, and for the insight per your experience. Sounds like a great gig! I looked you up, and see that you are likely working exclusively in Haskell, but thought you might derive some value from Carl Cook's presentation on optimizing HFT code …

    log_base_login on Hacker News · 2017-11
    In Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the future

  • Basically Java, .NET and C++, with heavy focus on C++. Being able to write allocation free algorithms, even on GC languages, lock free data structures and good knowledge of all multi-core programming paradigms and distributed computing. Here are some talks that will give you a …

    pjmlp on Hacker News · 2020-05
    In Ask HN: What programming skills are required by HFT or Trading firms

  • First of all, it leaves the team behind if you use features that are too advanced. Makes collaboration hard if you have wildly diverging skills (in both ways). Also, it did in our case take you away so far from the bare metal, that the …

    jeffreygoesto on Hacker News · 2020-11
    In Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?

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