High Stakes Network Observability for High Frequency Trading

High Frequency Trading in finance demands the utmost quality and speed from a network, making flawless observability a must. Our guest today is Radu Ionco from Jump Trading, and he tells us about how they built their own custom network observability platform, even creating a monitoring system for the monitoring system. We talk through streaming telemetry, REST APIs, and even CLI scraping. He explains how they do data normalization, and how they do database management for multiple terabytes of telemetry. He also walks us through how they make sure the polls are polling and the alerts are alerting. Even if you never find yourself in such a high-stakes environment, you can learn a lot about network observability from this unique setting.
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It’s called Telegraf / Prometheus / Elastic. Building your own is crazy.