Advanced Microservices Architecture

PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY

Advanced Microservices Architecture

Quod Financial Buy or Build Trading Platform

The Challenge:

Performance and scalability are constant challenges in financial services. Volumes have been increasing dramatically, driven by the widespread adoption of Automated Trading by Retail and Buy-Side clients. Individual trade sizes are decreasing, and desks across the industry are handling increasing volumes of transactions. Moreover, data automation means that platforms now ingest more of everything: more data, more signals, more integrations, and more reporting. All of this puts a strain on technical architectures that were mostly designed in the 2000s.

Key issues include:

Monolithic Applications: These legacy systems struggle to scale and manage large transaction volumes without experiencing high latencies and system failures.
Multi-Region Deployments: Integrated systems across multiple regions often lead to data duplication and performance issues.
Market Events: Sudden market fluctuations can overwhelm systems, precisely when peak performance is essential.

The Solution:

Quod Financial has developed the Quod Microservices Architecture, a cutting-edge technology platform designed for unparalleled scale and performance in high-volume trading environments. We recognized the challenges of supporting data-driven, high-volume trading and responded by developing a microservices architecture. Our platform operates using small, efficient processes (microservices) that communicate through a central messaging layer (BUS). This structure allows for scaling the platform by simply adding additional microservices to the BUS, offering theoretically infinite system growth.

Key features include:

Infinite Scalability: Scale the platform effortlessly by adding more microservices to the BUS, supporting potentially limitless growth.
Strategic Component Deployment: Deploy services regionally or locally to optimize workflows and minimize latency.
Dedicated Channels for Specific Use Cases: Customize client Direct Market Access (DMA) flows with dedicated microservices, ensuring isolated performance unaffected by other clients or market events.

Quod Financial's technology represents the cutting edge of performance in financial services. Our BUS facilitates easy integration with external solutions through multiple APIs, with all data held in-memory within this messaging layer for rapid access and processing.

The Benefits:

Adopting Quod's advanced microservices architecture offers several significant benefits:

Infinite Scalability: Seamlessly expand your system's capabilities to handle any volume of transactions.
Customizable Deployments: Tailor deployments to specific regions or workflows for optimal performance.
Multi-Region/Location Architecture: Efficiently manage data across various locations without duplication or latency issues.
Easy API Integration and Expansion: Integrate effortlessly with external systems and scale your platform's functionalities as needed.

About Quod Financial

Quod Financial is a multi-asset OMS/EMS trading technology provider focused on automation and innovation – specializing in software and services such as Algorithmic Trading, Smart Order Routing (SOR), and Internalization of Liquidity. Quod leverages the use of its data-driven architecture to support the demands of e-trading markets by combining AI/ML-enabled decision-making tools and dynamic market access with a non-disruptive approach to deployment. For more information visit: www.quodfinancial.com

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