Robinhood Engineering with Jaren Glover

Robinhood is a platform for buying and selling stocks and cryptocurrencies. Robinhood is complex, fast-moving, and financial, and together these things require high quality engineering in distributed systems, observability, and data infrastructure.

Jaren Glover is an engineer at Robinhood, and he joins the show to talk about the problem space within Robinhood, as well as the specific DevOps and software engineering challenges.

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