Broken Silicon 89: Cloud Gaming, Dev Crunch, High-Frequency Trading | Low Latency Developer (Patreon)

Going fast, not wide. Tom interviews a Coding Developer who focuses on reducing latency for financial servers. They discuss everything from cloud gaming, console SSDs, game dev crunch, and Alder Lake vs Zen 4.

0:00 What is a “Low Latency Developer”?

7:46 Guest’s Background in PC Gaming

14:47 What got you into Coding? What made you want to focus on low latency?

19:28 What does a low latency developer literally do for Financial Trading Firms?

24:54 What is the current bottleneck for long distance latency?

31:57 How much more can you improve latency in Game Streaming Services?

39:39 Fixing the “Crunch” issue in Game Development, and Coding in general

43:38 The Difference between coding for finance, and coding for games

59:10 Are clockspeeds or core count more important for high frequency trading?

1:06:22 Is the latency in DDR5 a problem? Are developers excited about PCIE 6.0?

1:10:39 Are financial Servers considering AMD?

1:15:52 Custom ASICs, Samsung AI HBM, Direct Storage API vs Consoles

1:35:22 Should AM5 have quad channel memory? The benefits of big.LITTLE in Alder Lake

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-develops-industrys-first-high-bandwidth-memory-with-ai-processing-power

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/reflex-low-latency-platform/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/cyberpunk-2077-what-caused-the-video-game-s-disastrous-rollout