Case Study Template
Industry: Crypto Exchange / Prop Shop / DeFi Protocol • Engagement: Diagnostic Sprint • Duration: 3 days
The Challenge
The client was experiencing unpredictable latency spikes during high-volume trading periods, causing order fill degradation and competitive disadvantage.
Before & After
Before
P50 Latency 12ms
P99 Latency 47ms
Jitter 35ms
Issues Found
- ✗ Transparent Huge Pages enabled (causing 50µs stalls)
- ✗ Default CPU governor (powersave mode)
- ✗ IRQ affinity spread across all cores
- ✗ No CPU isolation for trading threads
After
P50 Latency 380µs
P99 Latency 1.2ms
Jitter 0.8ms
Changes Made
- ✓ THP disabled, explicit huge page allocation
- ✓ Performance governor with isolcpus
- ✓ IRQ affinity pinned to dedicated cores
- ✓ Trading threads isolated on NUMA node 0
Results
39x faster
P99 Latency
97% reduction
Jitter
+12% improvement
Fill Rate
"[Testimonial quote from client]"
[Name]
[Title], [Company]
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