
Software at Scale · 2023-05-16 · 56 min
Robert Cooke is the CTO and co-founder of 3Forge , a real-time data visualization platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts In this episode, we delve into Wall Street's high-frequency trading evolution and the importance of high-volume trading data observability. We examine traditional software observability tools, such as Datadog, and contrast them with 3Forge’s financial observability platform, AMI. GPT-4 generated summary In this episode of the Software at Scale podcast, Robert Cooke, CTO and Co-founder of 3Forge, a comprehensive internal tools platform, shares his journey and insights. He outlines his career trajectory, which includes prominent positions such as the Infrastructure Lead at Bear Stearns and the Head of Infrastructure at Liquidnet, and his work on high-frequency trading systems that employ software and hardware to perform rapid, automated trading decisions based on market data. Cooke elucidates how 3Forge empowers subject matter experts to automate trading decisions by encoding business logic.