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Event-Driven Architecture Beats Polling in HFT Code Showdown
A developer compares naive polling loops with event-driven patterns for high-frequency trading, showing how eliminating blocking calls and unnecessary copies reduces latency. The post emphasizes that architecture matters more than language choice for millisecond-scale trading. Code examples demonstrate moving from REST polling to async event processing.
Meridian48 take
The piece is a solid tutorial but oversimplifies real HFT, where network hardware and colocation matter as much as software patterns.
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