12/08/2026
Enterprise software is built to be good on average. Trading systems are built to never have a bad moment. A tiny freeze that happens once a minute is no big deal in normal software. In trading, that same freeze can cost real money.
So engineers go to extremes: they stop the computer from pausing, they skip the normal operating system for networking, and they carefully arrange memory so the processor never waits. It’s a completely different skill set.
Where does latency variance hurt you most in your current trading stack?