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Serious Alchemy

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seriousalchemy.com· biweekly· Published 16 days ago

Engineering notes from building a live algorithmic trading system in Elixir, covering production failures and design decisions such as token stores, rate limiting, account state and portfolio risk. Each post explains what was chosen, why it was enough, and what it cost.

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Platform
Ghost
Frequency
Biweekly
Latest issue
Oct 7, 2026
Language
English
Written for
Elixir developers building production systems, especially trading or fintech
Tone
analytical
Tracked since
Oct 23, 2026

Website: https://seriousalchemy.com/