Up to this point, much of the discussion around Software Reliability has focused on the macro level of our systems – software correctness, simple architectur...

A "perfect" process and pithy principles only go so far. The pursuit of software reliability must be lived and breathed by the entire organization- especiall...

When errors occur in our environment, we aim to learn everything we can from them so we can improve our processes, system, and culture. However, a common res...

The first two software reliability concepts we examine concern our overall strategy for pursuing reliability. The foundation of our strategy is prudence and w...

Our next series of posts is drawn from a document written by our CTO, Pierre Salverda, three years ago: Software Reliability at Optiver: Guiding Principles. ...

This series of posts has thus far examined technical principles and context. After diving into the CME’s iLink architectural change, we examined our overall ...

This series of posts first examined the importance of the CME to Optiver’s trading activities and the implications of their iLink architecture upgrade. We ne...

In our previous post, we described how CME’s iLink upgrade would require us to rethink our trading systems. This shuffling of design priorities would force u...

Our first series of posts aims to introduce a few high-level principles which guide our thinking. These principles are more a mindset than specific technical...

Optiver is a proprietary High Frequency Trading (HFT) firm focusing on electronic market making in exchange-listed financial products. Our activities span ma...