In the world of tech, there’s this push-and-pull dynamic whereby firms scale up via acquisition but do so at the risk of growing too quickly and creating a disjointed offering. In the best instances, a company acquires a piece of tech that seamlessly integrates with the acquirer’s other functionalities. But when these integrations go wrong, the result is a technological quagmire.

I was recently speaking with a senior technologist at a very large trading technology provider that has grown