Blog Developer Blog Maximizing Financial Performance: How Financial Institutions Can Achieve Low Latency and High Throughput with NATS.io and Akamai Maximizing Financial Performance: How Financial Institutions Can Achieve Low Latency and High Throughput with NATS.io and Akamai Talia Nassi is a Lead Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies. Financial institutions need to process a massive amount of transactions per second. Because these transactions typically contain highly sensitive data, they need even more rigorous standards of security, latency, and consistency than usual. They need to ensure that all transactions, whether they are e-commerce purchases or direct bank transfers, are instant, secure, and error-free. Can you imagine a customer’s payment just getting stuck in limbo because your system couldn’t keep up? The frustration and abandonment rates would be through the roof.…