What does it take to test high-performance trading systems where microsecond-level latency and stability under load are critical? It requires purpose-built tools capable of sustaining millions of messages per second, simulating realistic market behaviour, supporting multiple financial protocols and producing actionable performance reports.
At The 14th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2026) in Florence,
@exactpro's Alyona Bulda, SVP, Emerging Technologies, presented a paper ‘Beyond Message Injection: Advanced Load Testing Capabilities for Trading Systems with th2-shark’, co-authored with
@IosifItkin, CEO & Co-founder of Exactpro. The workshop was co-located with ICPE 2026 – the 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering.
In her presentation, Alyona introduced th2-shark (aka Loader), our high-throughput load generation and benchmarking tool built for high data volumes prone to fluctuations. Its core principle is to ensure test scenarios are expressive, portable and impose minimal overhead on the system under test.
Find out more about our participation in the event and access the slides:
exactpro.com/events/14th-int…
Contact us at info@exactpro.com to explore how th2-Loader can stress-test your systems.
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