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Building Low Latency Applications with C++

By : Sourav Ghosh
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Book Image

Building Low Latency Applications with C++

5 (1)
By: Sourav Ghosh

Overview of this book

C++ is meticulously designed with efficiency, performance, and flexibility as its core objectives. However, real-time low latency applications demand a distinct set of requirements, particularly in terms of performance latencies. With this book, you’ll gain insights into the performance requirements for low latency applications and the C++ features critical to achieving the required performance latencies. You’ll also solidify your understanding of the C++ principles and techniques as you build a low latency system in C++ from scratch. You’ll understand the similarities between such applications, recognize the impact of performance latencies on business, and grasp the reasons behind the extensive efforts invested in minimizing latencies. Using a step-by-step approach, you’ll embark on a low latency app development journey by building an entire electronic trading system, encompassing a matching engine, market data handlers, order gateways, and trading algorithms, all in C++. Additionally, you’ll get to grips with measuring and optimizing the performance of your trading system. By the end of this book, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of how to design and build low latency applications in C++ from the ground up, while effectively minimizing performance latencies.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introducing C++ Concepts and Exploring Important Low-Latency Applications
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Part 2:Building a Live Trading Exchange in C++
10
Part 3:Building Real-Time C++ Algorithmic Trading Systems
14
Part 4:Analyzing and Improving Performance

Understanding low latency performance in live video streaming applications

In this section, we will first discuss the details behind low latency performance in the context of video streaming applications. We will define the important concepts and terms relevant to live video streaming to build an understanding of the field and business use cases. We will understand what causes latencies in these applications and the business impact of those. Finally, we will discuss technologies, platforms, and solutions to build and support low latency video streaming applications.

Defining important concepts in low latency streaming

Here, we will first define a few important concepts and terms when it comes to low latency streaming applications. Let us get started with a few basics and build up from there into more complex concepts.

Latency in video streaming

Video streaming is defined as audio-video content delivered in real time or near real time. Latency in general refers to the time...