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by slashdotdash 3611 days ago
From their "About us" page[1].

"The exchange is built from the ground up to deliver extreme performance and is built entirely in the programming language Erlang. This gives us big technological advantages being able to handle huge amounts of requests with ultra low latency (<1ms). Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability."

[1] https://www.deribit.com/docs/about-us/

2 comments

Their website is using the standard boilerplate angular version of a 'dashboard' theme from Metronic.

And their API console page took 7.02 seconds (on FIOS connection) to fully load the DOM.

"huge amounts of requests with ultra low latency (<1ms)" needs more explanation because if we had 1 million (<1ms) requests from 1 billion I could still use same definition.
They mention that number again in their colocation page, I suspect they're providing their best number based on testing in the same datacenter (yay SXB, FR)