Re:We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application
by lkbm on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:00PM
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I'm guessing most people are familiar, but if you're interested in this, look up "Knight Capital flash crash". They lost $440MM in about 45 minutes. As I recall, they reused an old feature flag accidentally reviving some old code.
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Re:We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application
by bywaterstreet on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:51PM
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Thanks for the ref. I'll bring this up the next time somebody questions my "let's clean up these flags in prod".