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Signals and Threads
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What Is the Best Way to Avoid a Catastrophic Failure?
If GORD goes down, the entire firm stops trading automatically because we can't make good decisions if we have no idea what trading we've done. The system is designed to be able to fail in pieces in constrained ways that will hopefully avoid any sort of catastrophic failure. We also always run in addition to having the sort of real production version of the system called the primary. And a standby, which is also we consider production and is just processing all the same activity and keeping up with everything in real time.
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