Friday Hacks #294, April 10: Data Structures for Text Editors and The Tech and Infrastructure Behind a Market Making Trading System
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Date/Time: April 10 at 7:00pm SGT
Venue: TBC
Sign-up Link: TBC
Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served!
1) Data Structures for Text Editors — Beyond Arrays of Arrays
Ever been curious about what data structures you could use for text editors? Are you still using an array of arrays? Find out what kind of data structures are out there.
Speaker Profile 🎙️
Eldon Chung is a CS2040S Lecturer who builds programs as an excuse to implement data structures. He has proven data structure impossibility results as part of his PhD.
2) The Tech and Infrastructure Behind a Market Making Trading System (By Virtu)
What is a trading system? How does it work? What are the problems that a dev in HFT would face? Hans frames this as “How do I start my own HFT?”, covering infrastructure, networking, latencies, and the day to day dev work.
Speaker Profile 🎙️
Hans Phua is a Senior Strategy Software Engineer at Virtu Financial since 2018. He has worked on everything from monitoring tools to setting up a brand new trading desk from scratch.
👋 See you there!