Tracing in Production: When 1–150ms Turns Into 700ms

We enabled tracing on a production ML system expecting a small latency overhead. Instead inference latency increased by ~700ms — far beyond the documented range, revealing how benchmarking assumptions may break under real workloads.

Building a UCITS‑Only Quarterly Top‑5 Rank‑Weighted Momentum Strategy

An end-to-end implementation of a UCITS‑compliant quarterly momentum rotation strategy, complete with Bayesian parameter tuning, walk‑forward validation and practical insights from real‑world retail constraints.

Hierarchical Risk Parity (HRP) for Crypto Portfolio Optimisation

Analysis of Hierarchical Risk Parity (HRP) for crypto portfolios. Comparing HRP variants vs Bitcoin holding over 3 years with surprising results on portfolio optimisation strategies.