"I told you, Sarah," Julian muttered, typing a command into the terminal. "The issue isn’t the bandwidth. It’s the kernel. The OS is treating the trade packets like polite mail. We need to treat them like bullets."
"Julian, the latency spike is back," said Sarah, the CTO, her voice crackling over the intercom. "We’re hitting four milliseconds. If we hit five, the arbitrage bots will eat us alive. We’re losing two million a minute."
https://mt.tradelocker.com/api
He hit enter. The graph on his monitoring screen smoothed out. The latency dropped from 4ms to 0.8ms.
"I told you, Sarah," Julian muttered, typing a command into the terminal. "The issue isn’t the bandwidth. It’s the kernel. The OS is treating the trade packets like polite mail. We need to treat them like bullets."
"Julian, the latency spike is back," said Sarah, the CTO, her voice crackling over the intercom. "We’re hitting four milliseconds. If we hit five, the arbitrage bots will eat us alive. We’re losing two million a minute."
https://mt.tradelocker.com/api
He hit enter. The graph on his monitoring screen smoothed out. The latency dropped from 4ms to 0.8ms.