How Important is High Performance to a Crypto Exchange System?

Whenever the cryptocurrency market price rises and falls sharply, the system performance of cryptocurrency exchanges always suffers a "big test", with problems such as app crashes and users being unable to log in, causing heavy losses for many investors and damaging the reputation of cryptocurrency exchange platforms.
 
One important feature of trading systems is that the greater the number of users, the greater the number of concurrent transactions to be processed. As the number of users and transactions continues to increase, the system is under increasing pressure. If the system fails at this time, it will cause immeasurable losses. This is especially true in the year-round cryptocurrency trading market, where the market is extremely volatile. This places extremely high demands on the performance of the system. 
 
There are a large number of exchanges on the market, but the performance of trading systems varies. Many platforms have a very rudimentary technical architecture, and once they encounter extreme quotes or more complex derivatives transactions, the shortcomings of the platform performance are exposed.
 
Bluehelix, the world's leading blockchain financial company, believes that a good crypto trading system should not only meet the needs of daily transactions, but also have an excellent performance in extreme quotes and conducting complex derivatives operations such as contracts.
 
Throughput and latency are two important indicators to measure system performance, and "high throughput, low latency" is the perfect state for all systems. However, the higher the throughput, the longer the latency will be, because the request volume is too large, the system is too busy, and the response speed will naturally be low.
 
An excellent trading system is necessarily an organic balance between throughput and latency, and this goal has high requirements for the design of the system architecture. Taking Bluehelix Cloud as an example, the overall system is based on the highly scalable system architecture of Kubernets + Docker, which can ensure a 10 times increase in system processing capacity within 10 minutes. Combined with the ability of unitized system architecture, the scalability of the system is basically unlimited, the system's scaling capacity is basically not capped, and the high availability level of each system is guaranteed, so that even if there is a large influx of users, the platform will still not experience any lag or be unable to place orders, minimizing the loss caused by the system.
 
In addition, as a key subsystem in the whole system, the Bluehelix Cloud trading system can reach a processing speed of 2.4 million orders per second for a single cryptocurrency pair, and the HA architecture of the trading system can guarantee the upgrade time to be completed within 5 seconds, which provides a reliable guarantee for 99.99% availability.
 
In terms of performance, based on the stateless service architecture, the horizontal scaling capability of Kubernets+Docker, the reasonable partitioning and sharding at DB level, and the effective utilization of cache, combined with the reliable meltdown mechanism and sufficient performance testing, the majority of core services are guaranteed to be within 5 milliseconds.
 
At present, the whole industry still in the early stage of development, every safety accident and every less than perfect product will cause users to question the industry, these professional data may be too complicated for users, but through technical innovation to win the user's reputation is the most effective means to promote the development of the industry.