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Engineering an Institutional High-Frequency Trading System

An architectural tour through the design decisions, critical factors, and engineering techniques that distinguish an institutional-grade trading platform from a hobby trading bot — illustrated by NitroJ Exchange (NitroJEx), a Java 21 low-latency cryptocurrency trading platform.

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The Pragmatic Engineer's Guide to Low-Latency Java

Deterministic systems matter in the T+0 era. What senior Java engineers must unlearn from enterprise practice, what they must learn from mechanical sympathy, and how a concrete crypto market-data gateway brings those ideas to life.