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- Data encoding is optimized: converting JSON payloads to Protobuf reduces serialization overhead, improving speed and reducing message size by about 50%.
Infrastructure and Load Balancing
Network Load Balancers are used to distribute traffic across multiple nodes.
The architecture relies on cloud-native load balancing and auto-scaling strategies to match fluctuating data volumes.
Load balancer choices (like network load balancers versus application load balancers) are made to ensure minimal per-request latency.
Ensuring Reliability in a High-Stakes Environment
Fallback Engineering
Given the critical nature of trading data, the system incorporates fallback mechanisms: