Probably the coolest thing about coding a matching engine is the fact that it's a process that runs fully in memory and has to stay up forever.
Can't afford memory leaks, CPU exhaustion, ...
Has to be as perfect as possible.
Current @bitfinex matching engine uptime is 300 days.
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Replying to @paoloardoino @bitfinex
That is insane uptime for a Raspberry Pi!
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Replying to @h3_extrachars @bitfinex
Lol! I test quite a lot the matching engine on a Raspberry PI 3B+. It's quite nice to test on slower hardware just to find bottlenecks more evidently.
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Replying to @paoloardoino @bitfinex
I found them fun for running nodes, if pre-synced with other hardware. Otherwise a long wait
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Replying to @h3_extrachars @bitfinex
Yep. Plenty of nodes at home. All fan-less of course.
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Replying to @paoloardoino @bitfinex
Of course :Ppic.twitter.com/fFkZj4bHYl
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