HSBC's journey with Aeron

Grahame Rogers, Global Head Of Algo Platforms - Equities IT, shares how HSBC leverages Aeron to solve problems in their electronic trading stack.

Describing the history of their trading system and how they identified the EMS component (Electronic Management / Routing system) as a bottleneck for future growth, Grahame dives into a detailed problem analysis, including garbage collection issues, inefficient language features, and the inability to scale horizontally.

He then shares details around their new architecture based on a command bus, event bus, and sequencer-style architecture and describes HSBC’s detailed usage of Aeron. Finally, he dives into the benefits of their new system: improved performance, scalability, and resilience.

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