Placement Notes
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VM
Selecting the Best Compute Candidate for a Trading Workload
How to compare real compute candidates, network paths, and runtime behavior under one measurement frame.
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Field notes on placement, tail behavior, and runtime design.
Technical field notes on compute selection, path stability, runtime behavior, and repeatable production deployment.
Placement
Tail latency
Build vs buy
Benchmark-first
Latest reads
Practical notes for trading and platform teams
Each article connects back to the benchmark sprint and the rollout decision it is meant to support.
Latency Reality
02
RTT
Ranking Network Paths by Median, Jitter, and Tail Latency
How latency distribution, path stability, and route diversity shape a production network decision.
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Operating Model
03
OPS
What It Takes to Productize a Low-Latency Runtime
A practical view of benchmark tooling, candidate ranking, tuning, rollout, and drift control.
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Use the ideas, then run the benchmark
Use the articles to refine the measurement question, then scope the benchmark sprint.