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Yucong Sun

Author: Yucong Sun

Yucong Sun is Director of Software Engineering, Trading System at Gemini, where he leads the development of core trading systems with a deep focus on distributed systems and infrastructure. With over 20 years of experience building and operating highly available, large-scale systems, his background spans cutting edge infrastructure, ultra-low-latency trading platforms and large-scale distributed systems.

Gemini delivers high performance, cloud-native trading API with AWS Local Zones

For latency-sensitive trading workloads, proximity to the exchange matters. Even single-digit millisecond differences in round-trip time can meaningfully influence the trading experience. This means that trading firms evaluating cloud infrastructure need to think carefully about instance placement, network configuration, and physical distance to execution venues. Gemini, a NASDAQ-listed exchange, wanted to take advantage of the […]