Abhinav Rathi — notes from productionOne post a month on backend engineering at a prop trading firm. Latency, idempotency, and the loop around the model.https://abhinav00711.github.io/en-usWhat I learned about latency working at a prop trading firmhttps://abhinav00711.github.io/abhinavrathi/writing/latency-at-a-prop-trading-firm/https://abhinav00711.github.io/abhinavrathi/writing/latency-at-a-prop-trading-firm/Months of waiting for queries, fills, and reconciliations to finish. Production trading didn't teach me about microseconds — it taught me what the unit of work actually is.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTlatencyprop-tradingproduction