A several years ago I had a lot of sympathy for Betfair when they had outages given the complexity of the system they're running, but the sympathy well has now run dry.ShaunWhite wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:00 pmBut to be fair you could assume these are their likely weaknesses. They're fairly standard issues with systems that have to remain live, there's no easy opportunity for housekeeping. If anyone has had experience designing exchange systems then they're massively impressed with just how reliable betfair are, especially in the implementation of the ESA. The moaners really ought to look at what's involved. I wish the Smarkets guys all the best because bullet proof bespoke systems don't come cheap, that 3.5mil will get burnt pretty quickly.
Interesting to see that they link their horse and football exposure. Exposure? On an exchange?
Regarding exposure, I think Jason was referring to the customer's exposure. I always just assumed that their data centres would have a central database of all the customer's transactions and unmatched bets so exposure can always be verified regardless of what sports are traded.