Low Latency Optimization: Using Huge Pages on Linux (Part 2)
Welcome to the second part of our series on improving latency through the use of huge pages! While the first installment was focused on potential hardware benefits, this post will hone in on the practicality of using huge pages to run software – and the most important...
Low Latency Optimization: Understanding Huge Pages (Part 1)
Latency is often a crucial factor in algorithmic trading. At HRT, a lot of effort goes into minimizing the latency of our trading stack. Low latency optimizations can be arcane, but fortunately there are a lot of very good guides and documents to get started. One...
A Campus Career Fair Led This Software Developer to a New Life in NYC
As a California native and aspiring software developer, Jenna MacCarley always thought she’d work in Silicon Valley—but meeting with an HRT campus recruiter at a career fair convinced her a job in New York just might be the right move. “I was impressed with the...
Enabling Algo Research on Blockchain Data
Strategy development at HRT is a complex process, and in some cases involves exploring massive data sets to find interesting patterns and generate ideas.
An Introduction to SmallGrid
HRTers process real-time price and volume data for over a million symbols across global markets every day. If we want humans to have a chance of keeping up, we need that data efficiently represented in a tabular format!