SE-Radio Episode 254: Mike Barker on the LMAX Architecture
Mike Barker talks with Sven Johann about the architecture of the LMAX system. LMAX is a low-latency, high-throughput trading platform. Their discussion begins with what LMAX does; the origins of LMAX; and extreme performance requirements faced by LMAX. They then delve into systems that LMAX communicates with; LMAX users; the two main components of the system (broker and exchange); Mechanical Sympathy as an architectural driver; message flow using the Disruptor library; and lock-free algorithms. Mike and Sven wrap up by discussing how a well modeled domain model can improve the performance of any system; automated (performance) tests; continuous delivery; and measuring response times.
Venue: Skype
Related Links:
- SE-Radio Episode https://www.se-radio.net/2014/02/episode-201-martin-thompson-on-mechanical-sympathy/ with Martin Thompson on Mechanical Sympathy
- The LMAX http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html architecture by Martin Fowler
- Martin Thompson’s blog http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/ Mechanical Sympathy
- Disruptor http://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/ open source project on Github
- “LMAX – How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency” presentation http://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX at QCon San Francisco
- Trisha Gee’s write ups http://mechanitis.blogspot.com/2011/06/dissecting-disruptor-whats-so-special.html on the Disruptor
- Mike’s blog http://bad-concurrency.blogspot.com/
- Mike’s Twitter: www.twitter.com/mikeb2701
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Tags: architecture, continuous delivery, garbage collection, lmax disruptor, lock-free algorithms, mechanical sympathy, microservices, performance
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This particular show was packed with great various subject you don’t hear about too much. I liked in particular the link between automated tested and the lack of need of project management. Great to hear!
Excellent talk – good balance between nerdy tech talk and interesting business domain. Enjoyed it very much.
As always a great show! Sven’s insightful questions helped me focus on the big picture. Good job. Keep up the good work.
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Excellent talks. My feedback is related to audio
i) Audio Quality is bad most of the times. I understand some people are remote… but this is ‘Software Engineering Radio’ and it is 2016. We should solve this.
ii) FileSizes!! Seriously? for such low quality audio, I have to download 100MB (most of the times over cellular). This is a double whammy. One, I can’t store good shows permanently on my iPhone and Two, it uses so much bandwidth downloading.
You should get one of them Pied Piper compression software. I heard they are making them in rectangular boxes