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dsfyu404ed on Dec 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables

tl;dr If your ultimate goal is performance you need to select/tune every part of the system to work well with every other part.

Monkeys slapping black boxes on black boxes on top of each other is not sufficient.

mhurd on Dec 5, 2017 [–]

Sometimes speculation can help your speculation. If your speculation is not too speculative then your speculative speculation is worthy of speculation ;-)

That is, slapping black boxes together sometimes works despite the risks.

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