ENGINEERINGJUN 3, 2026 · 9 MIN READ
Watching 38,000 order books without melting
Sampling strategies, depth deltas, and why we throw away 99.4% of what we ingest.
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Prediction markets don't sleep, and neither do their order books. Watching every tick on every market is how you melt a cluster. Watching the right deltas is how you stay cheap and sharp.
Throw almost everything away
We ingest far more than we keep. Depth updates that don't change top-of-book, micro-rebounds inside noise bands, and duplicate snapshots get discarded. Roughly 99.4% of raw messages never become durable state.
What survives is compressed into depth deltas, watermarked streams, and market-level features the signal engine can actually score. Boring reliability beats heroic full-replay every time.