Here's a background article in Vanity Fair [0] about the previous installlments of this Kafka-esque story, by Michael Lewis, who later incorporated it into his

Here's a background article in Vanity Fair [0] about the previous installlments of this Kafka-esque story, by Michael Lewis, who later incorporated it into his book, The Flash Boys, about High-Frequency Trading (you may know Lewis for some of his earlier books, Liar's Poker and/or Moneyball). I'd quote things from the Vanity Fair piece, but there's so much there worth reading -- highly recommended. [0] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman-sachs-programmer http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...