Over the First Big Hurdle – Really Nice Feeling
This afternoon I can sit back for a minute and look at what I've been doing for the past several weeks as it's gotten to the point that it's tested against data from the exchange, and it's passed those tests. It's only one of about a dozen feeds that I need to handle, but it's the first, and that means that all the infrastructure work I've done - the boost asio sockets... the serialization... the unpacking of exchange data stream... all that is done. Now it's time to put the second codec in the system and see how well it maps to the system I created for one. I'm not really convinced that the design I have now will withstand all the other sources, unmodified, but it's a really good start, and I think it's close.
So I've run this sprint to get the first data feed done, and it's done, and now I find myself exceptionally tired. No surprise there... just a matter of when not if. I've been running on this for a long time without even the slightest break, but it's done now, and I can rest for a minute and then hit it again.
Well... there's my minute's rest... time to get back at it.