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Why is the video showing redundant details? It looks like for each event it shows a packet going to every server. If they arranged the machines on the horizont
by Strilanc 13y ago
Why is the video showing redundant details? It looks like for each event it shows a packet going to every server.
If they arranged the machines on the horizontal axis, time on the vertical axis, and showed 'packet sent' events it would look much simpler. Maybe simple enough to add in details about the trades, like dollar values, instead of pretty expanding explosions.
- cbhl 13y agoI believe that part of the actual infrastructure is you send the same message along multiple physical cables; one to each exchange. You also have to account for the delay that the message takes to be received by each exchange. (The speed of light isn't "instant" when you're working on the ms level.)