peaky
messages per second across "all" feeds
I came across this compelling site which uses a hardware-based ticker plant (Exegy) in a colo environment to measure peak bandwidth across scads of NA feeds and then, every minute, updates a chart like the above to capture the average messages/sec across all of them. Pretty swank.
While the uninformed may rail against colocation rather than focus on less intriguing issues like banana-variety corruption, they miss the basic point that colo can be done by anyone with the checkbook and the wish to do so.
unfair advantage?
It’s sort of like that boat in Forrest Gump. Forrest wanted to be a shrimper. So he invested in a boat. With his initial capital, hard work, perseverance and a bit of luck, Forrest made a go of it. He might easily have not made it. Colo is like that. You can shrimp without a boat if you have a mask and fins, but it’s likely not a sustainable model… either way, it’s hard to see the harm in Gump’s boat. Or colocation.
Hat-tip to Rodrick’s Web Log !! for spotting the market data peaks site.
