Jun 15, 2020 5 min Software Reliability at Optiver: Test Driven Development Up to this point, much of the discussion around Software Reliability has focused on the macro level of our systems – software correctness...
Dec 6, 2018 3 min Software Reliability at Optiver: People A "perfect" process and pithy principles only go so far. The pursuit of software reliability must be lived and breathed by the entire org...
Nov 29, 2018 4 min Software Reliability at Optiver: Design When errors occur in our environment, we aim to learn everything we can from them so we can improve our processes, system, and culture. H...
Nov 2, 2018 3 min Software Reliability at Optiver: Strategy The first two software reliability concepts we examine concern our overall strategy for pursuing reliability. The foundation of our strat...
Oct 18, 2018 3 min Software Reliability at Optiver Our next series of posts is drawn from a document written by our CTO, Pierre Salverda, three years ago: Software Reliability at Optiver: ...
Sep 20, 2018 4 min Fear This series of posts has thus far examined technical principles and context. After diving into the CME’s iLink architectural change, we e...
Sep 13, 2018 5 min Simple Designs This series of posts first examined the importance of the CME to Optiver’s trading activities and the implications of their iLink archite...
Sep 6, 2018 5 min Constraints + Discipline = Innovation + Flexibility In our previous post, we described how CME’s iLink upgrade would require us to rethink our trading systems. This shuffling of design prio...
Aug 31, 2018 4 min CME iLink and FPGAs Our first series of posts aims to introduce a few high-level principles which guide our thinking. These principles are more a mindset tha...
Aug 23, 2018 2 min Welcome to Optiver's Tech Blog Optiver is a proprietary High Frequency Trading (HFT) firm focusing on electronic market making in exchange-listed financial products. Ou...