Helping Folks Avert Disaster – It Could be a Full-Time Job
This morning I had a nice, long, talk with one of the developers in the shop about a project he was going to be working on. The problems I saw in his design were significant. The application was non-trivial, I grant you, but that should have been an indicator to him that the simple solution of a few structs in a trie wouldn't really be sufficient. Because of the way the feed is coming from the exchange, we really need a far more complex data structure. It's going to make things much faster, but it's going to take a significant amount of time to build.
He was going to build a train wreck, and I hope we averted it. We'll see. There's a lot that needs to be built. I'm sure this isn't the last time we'll talk about it.