Case Study: tastytrade moves a data center with Honeycomb and cuts investigations to minutes
Key results
The challenge
tastytrade, an options and futures brokerage that runs its own data centers and fiber infrastructure, needed to migrate to a new facility while keeping latency-sensitive trading platforms reliable under sudden traffic surges.
The solution
tastytrade used Honeycomb to measure latency between the two data centers in milliseconds and validate the migration, and to investigate production issues quickly through shared queries.
“With Honeycomb, it's like an electron microscope. We could actually see the latency between the two data centers in milliseconds and say, okay, we shifted the right way.”
BCBrian ChamberlainStaff Software Engineer, tastytrade
The results, in context
tastytrade reported that week-long investigations became five-minute Slack conversations and that five critical issues were caught before customer impact. The new facility offered a third of the cost and twice the space, and the platform absorbs 3-5x traffic surges within seconds.