​Friday Hacks #289

​​Friday Hacks, by NUS Hackers, is a weekly event where invited speakers share their technical experiences and interests! In this week's session, we have:

​Friday Hacks x Jane Street:
Keeping State Straight in Distributed Systems

​At Jane Street, we rely heavily on inter-process communication and real-time message passing to drive many of our most critical systems, including those that ingest market data and implement trading strategies.

​As we scale up the number of components, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to reason about the consistency and correctness of the overall system.

​In this talk, we explore how transaction logs, state machine replication, and control flow inversion have allowed us to structure our applications in a way that lets us reliably deal with data races and process failures.

​Speakers Profile🎙

​Shi-Jie is currently a software engineer at Jane Street Singapore, attached to the International ETFs trading desk. He graduated as valedictorian with a double degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from NUS in 2017. Outside of work, you will often find Shi-Jie playing board games, table tennis, or trying to solve puzzles at puzzle hunts.

​See you there! 👋