trading

Observability in the Hot Path: Logging Everything Without Slowing Anything Down

Your observability adds milliseconds. On a trading platform, that's not monitoring — it's a performance regression you chose to keep. Here's how we built observability that sees everything without touching the critical path.

Operating a Live Trading System: What Breaks and What Saves You

Operational failures kill more personal trading systems than bad strategies. What actually goes wrong at 3 a.m. — and the defences that earn their place.

Capital Safety Is an Architecture Decision

How Meridian — a personal crypto trading system — treats capital safety as a first-class architecture constraint, with defence in depth, state machines, and automatic emergency procedures.