Achieving Sub‑Millisecond Response Times in a Java Trading System on Linux

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Describes how to build a Java-based trading system on Linux that achieves sub-millisecond response times. Covers specific techniques and optimizations for low-latency Java systems used in electronic trading, focusing on tuning the JVM, OS-level settings, and architectural choices to minimize response latency.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:14Sub-millisecond trading context
3. 7:14Classical architecture problems
4. 10:11Two-phase commit alternative
5. 15:33Event-driven system benefits
6. 17:22Business logic optimization
7. 23:58Thread sync and cache
8. 26:52Functional parallelism
9. 31:08Pipeline limits
10. 33:18Garbage collection impact
11. 35:49OS tuning
12. 37:37Thread-core affinity
13. 41:12Optimization results
14. 46:10Q&A

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