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How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs

by rundef quant.engineering published 2025-12-069 min read

Every modern exchange is a distributed database in disguise. This article reveals how trading engines transform chaotic streams of buy and sell orders into a perfectly ordered, replayable log, ensuring fairness, determinism, and market data reliability.

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