Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]

This is a good talk. Really gets into the details of how things differ from the classical SaaS or consumer product.

I've been doing reliability for most of my career, and have always been able to hide behind, "We're not a bank, if we lose a few requests it doesn't matter". They can't do that. :)

One advantage that they have is that the market closes, so they can do maintenance that takes the whole system down, but when you're running a global consumer product, it's a lot harder to do that without pushback.

So for most of us, our stress is around zero downtime maintenance, and theirs is around never dropping a request when the system is live.

I love talks like this so much. Trading isn't something I hardly ever think about as I live/work in a bubble of sorts, and it was a fascinating listen.

I have heard similar talks from Shopify and such back in the day, about their own product, but always love listening to more.

Standard SRE operations. Didn’t find anything notable.

The clickbait title of "billions of dollars a day" is nothing to praise.

I'll never understand how these cognitive elites live. They're just a completely different kind of human than the rest of us.

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