Implementation example – Scaling our financial trading system for increased volume and complexity
The trading system that we engineered for performance in the previous chapters must also incorporate scalability to accommodate future growth, assuring the ability to handle increased transaction volumes, and the introduction of new trading instruments and new markets, as well as the ability to expand our system globally for multiple access points, distributing the key processes for that.
The distribution of our system can go from having more order management systems (OMSs) access points or distributing strategies and models in different locations, depending on the markets we are trading on.
We have outlined the design and architecture of a financial trading system optimized for high-frequency operations. The task at hand is now to build upon this foundation, ensuring that the system can be scaled in response to increased market data, transactional demands, and the need to...