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Field notes from the router

Notes from inside the pipes.

Engineering deep-dives, trade postmortems, and opinionated takes from the team building PipSync. No growth hacks, no LinkedIn platitudes — just what we are learning as we ship.

These are field notes, not finished essays. Some posts cover launch-readiness work still pending — flagged in-line where relevant.

Copy
Telegram
Engineering

How to Copy Telegram Signals to MT5 Automatically in 2026

Server-side automation for Telegram-to-MT5 signal copy. Live channel parsing, risk gates, no VPS. Cloud setup guide for retail and prop traders.

PSPipSync Team · 23 min read
Latency claims,
decoded
Engineering

What copier latency claims actually measure

A single milliseconds figure on a landing page sounds precise. It usually describes one step out of five. How to read latency marketing — and how honest measurement works.

TSTobias Strauss · 8 min read
MetaAPI
off
Engineering

Why we removed MetaAPI — a self-hosted alternative for MT5 routing

Cloud-hosted MT5 bridges are convenient until you need control: latency, cost-per-account, vendor lock-in, audit evidence. Here is the migration story.

TSTobias Strauss · 10 min read
Telegram
rate limits
Engineering

Telegram bots and rate limits: what changed in 2026 and how to stay inside them

Telegram tightened bot rate limits twice in the last year. If your signal-routing bot is mysteriously falling behind, you may be the reason.

AOAisha Okonkwo · 7 min read
Routing
latency
Engineering

How we benchmark broker routing before launch

A deep dive into gateway placement, broker acknowledgements, and the telemetry we require before publishing latency claims publicly.

TSTobias Strauss · 9 min read
40 regex
to one LLM
Engineering

The parser rewrite: from 40 regexes to one tiny LLM

How we shipped a deterministic parser with an LLM fallback that handles every weird Telegram format we have ever seen.

AOAisha Okonkwo · 11 min read
Zero
downtime
Engineering

Planning database upgrades without marketing the drill

A play-by-play of the scripts, rollback checks, rehearsal notes, and the evidence we want before calling an upgrade zero-downtime.

TSTobias Strauss · 10 min read