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It strikes me there are no books written on software development in trading settings. Even descriptive ones would be interesting.

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Brett Harrison

@BrettHarrison88

Jul 25

1/ It's not widely understood outside the industry how prolific software developers need to be at successful trading firms and quant hedge funds. The tech involved, comments on developing software at Jane Street, and differing approaches to software between finance and big tech:

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Chiao Cheng

@chiaolun

Jul 27

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@ejames_c

The signals and threads podcast by Jane St is a fun listen

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Thanks! Subscribed.

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The context of advice for SWE seems to me a huge Blindspot in the discourse. Have been trying to fill it to cope with contradictory advice.

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People who are on twitter and make videos: usually FAANG, SV startups, Consumer focused, Frontend Devs People who usually write books: old school enterprise business software, more Backend focused

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mentions many lessons learned from a trading company in his great “Patterns of effective teams” talk

Daniel Terhorst-North

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The mighty

has written and spoken a lot about his adventures building the LMAX trading exchange from scratch, especially about Mechanical Sympathy; letting your computer’s physical architecture guide your design aesthetic.