Well, while engineers are getting paid $100K/yr to post #HugOps, I know someone in HFT and their dashboard uses the Fastly service, so this has had a huge impact on them for sure.
Flag and downvote all you want, you know this is true.
I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer. They're both pretty privileged jobs and HFT is not known for having tons of benefits to society
And ignore the pre-agreed SLA targets and compensation for not meeting those targets that's in the contract they signed right? If you're going to say you're losing $X/minute of downtime, then either deal with it, architect around it, or negotiate the necessary SLA and compensation.
