
How We Cut a Trading Bot's Reaction Time from ~2 Seconds to Milliseconds — by Moving Only the Hot Path to Rust
A live market-making bot on the Polymarket prediction market was leaking money to a slow control loop. We kept the quant logic in Python and moved only the latency-critical execution path into a Rust sidecar — cutting the reaction time on the most expensive event from roughly two seconds to the low tens of milliseconds.























