Tag Archives: FlyWheel

One day after BetFair’s PR move, the very active event derivative traders are still very displeased by the new BetFair “premium charges”.

I have re-published yesterday’s BetFair Q & A at the bottom of my previous post —because that’s the post that Google features, bringing in 300 people a day. – My analysis of this PR debacle: BetFair has a very complex … Continue reading

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BetFair and TradeFair’s trading engines

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Because the BetFair trading engine handles a huge number of small bets, they had to lower its cost per transaction.

Matt Carter (Director of the Advanced Technology Group at BetFair), interviewed by Silicon: Matt Carter, Betfair director of architecture and advanced technology, explained to silicon.com customer trends are moving towards a high volume of small-value bets, which, in turn, produce … Continue reading

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FlyWheel = BetFair’s advanced trading engine

Silicon: [...] In the end, the R&D team came up with a betting engine, called FlyWheel, that could demonstrate a throughput of almost 100,000 transactions per second, while also reducing the cost per transaction by 200 times. Even with a … Continue reading

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