Sportsbook Tech Meetup: Betting Technology

<p>An evening technical meetup for engineers and product managers working on sports betting. The format is deliberately small: a handful of talks followed by open discussion.</p><h2>What is discussed</h2><p>The main theme is what live betting demands of infrastructure: the delay between an event on the pitch and the odds update, the quality of feeds from sports data suppliers, and how a system behaves when load spikes around popular fixtures.</p><ul><li>sports data sources and how they are reconciled;</li><li>latency, caching and accepting bets in play;</li><li>risk management and automated limits;</li><li>load testing against the fixture calendar.</li></ul><p>The meetup is aimed at practitioners: the talks are technical and skip any introduction to how the industry is put together.</p>