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HFT Core Systems

HFT CORE SYSTEMS

PTP, PHC, clock domains, and timestamp provenance

Lesson 81 of 96Phase 08: Production safety and operations
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Learning objectives

What you should understand

  1. Understand PTP roles and NIC hardware clocks
  2. Map timestamps across TSC, system and PHC domains
  3. Carry clock identity and uncertainty with every measurement

Lab

Hands-on exercise

Build a clock-domain conversion and provenance record.

Deliverable

Evidence of completion

A time architecture diagram with synchronization and error budget.

Prerequisite
EP 80

Phase 08

Production safety and operations

Full curriculum
81PTP, PHC, clock domains, and timestamp provenance82End-to-end latency attribution83Capacity, backpressure, and overload policy84Journaling, durability, and crash recovery85Failure injection and chaos for a single host86Observability that stays off the critical path87Deployment, warm-up, rollout, and rollback88Incident response and postmortems