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Hardware and software working together in harmony

Mechanical Sympathy Monday, 5 May 2014 Simple Binary Encoding Financial systems communicate by sending and receiving vast numbers of messages in many different formats. When people use terms like "vast" I normally think, "really..how many?" So lets quantify "vast" for the finance industry. Market data feeds from financial exchanges typically can be emitting tens or hundreds of thousands of message per second, and aggregate feeds like OPRA can peak at over 10 million messages per second with volumes growing year-on-year. This presentation gives a good overview . In this crazy world we still see

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