Building a high-performance exchange market data broadcasting platform on AWS
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SMC Global Securities partnered with AWS to modernize their retail trading infrastructure by building a high-performance financial data distribution system with the following key characteristics:
- Uses AWS Transit Gateway to enable multicast networking for real-time market data feeds
- Processes 100K+ messages per second from multiple stock exchanges with zero downtime
- Implemented multi-threaded processing for high throughput and data accuracy
- Developed sophisticated WebSocket connection management for scalable real-time data broadcasting
- Achieved approximately 60% improvement in system latency
The solution leverages AWS services like Amazon ECS, ElastiCache, RDS PostgreSQL, and integrated monitoring tools to create a robust, scalable financial data platform that can handle thousands of concurrent users with high performance and reliability.
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