HFT CORE SYSTEMS

Define latency like an engineer

Lesson 01 of 96Phase 01: Measurement before optimization
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Learning objectives

What you should understand

  1. Separate service time, queueing time and end-to-end latency
  2. Choose start and stop boundaries that match the claim
  3. Distinguish throughput, jitter, percentiles and worst-case behavior

Lab

Hands-on exercise

Instrument one operation at three boundaries and explain why the distributions differ.

Deliverable

Evidence of completion

A latency-definition note with a timing diagram and explicit measurement boundary.

Phase 01

Measurement before optimization

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