I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora
A week of intent-based trading for AI agents: five threads from the Hashlock Markets desk The Model Context Protocol surface for crypto trading filled out fast over the last few weeks. Bybit shipped MCP coverage. Gemini added an agentic platform. Alpaca, Kraken, Hummingbot, TraderEvolution, and a handful of community wrappers are all in the same SERP now. The category is real, and it is crowding
I've been spending too much time inside trading bot codebases lately. Most of them are one of two things: a 200-line Jupyter notebook that someone calls a "system," or a sprawling monorepo where the strategy logic and exchange integration are so tangled that you can't swap exchanges without rewriting half the code. A few weeks ago I went deep on AlphaStrike, a production-grade crypto perpetual fut