LMAX aims to be the fastest trading platform in the world. Clearly, in order to achieve this we needed to do something special to achieve very low-latency and high-throughput with our Java platform. Performance testing showed that using queues to pass data between stages of the system was introducing latency, so we focused on optimising this area. The Disruptor is the result of our research and testing. We found that cache misses at the CPU-level, and locks requiring kernel arbitration are...
Shelling point, coordination center and truth source for the proejct
The repo is a collection of mission-critical information on the Cyber project. The purpose of the repo is to form both social and technical consensus on the project. The technical is more about having a protocol spec that is possible to implement on any language. The social is more about the common vision aka shelling point for every involved party.
DotNetMQ is a message broker (message queue, message oriented middleware) that has several features including guaranteed delivering, routing, load balancing, server graphs... so on. See article on CodeProject.com for more information: http://www.code