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, <i>The Flash Boys</i>, about High-Frequency Trading (you may know Lewis for some of his earlier books, <i>Liar's Poker</i> and/or <i>Moneyball</i>).<p>I'd quote things from the Vanity Fair piece, but there's so much there worth reading -- highly recommended.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman-sachs-programmer" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...</a>