Building a scalable low latency messaging platform for our Equities trading business

Over past few years Equities technology teams in HSBC built out an in house trading platform that has enabled our business to grow trade flow and profits for our business. However we are now facing growing pains with some of our original design patterns and technology choices. We're re writing our next generation trade and order management processes to enable us to increase trade throughput, reduce latency and improve resiliency. Written in Java using an event bus / command pattern with a sharding model, we are focused on performance, bypassing the kernel network stack and using GC free techniques. We use specialized network cards, PTP interfaces and other hardware devices to achieve and measure our low latency requirements. To achieve the best performance we use UDP as our primary network protocol with Aeron open source library for multicast messaging in our colocated datacentres with trading exchanges. If you want to learn more about some of these technical choices as well as some lessons learned, please join us!

Scheduled on Wednesday from 11:40 to 12:30 in Room 2