A leading financial services firm
FinTech Trading Platform
The Challenge
The client's legacy trading platform was buckling under growing trade volumes and could not deliver the sub-second latency that modern traders expect. Their monolithic architecture made it impossible to scale individual components independently, and deployments required weekend-long maintenance windows that disrupted global operations.
Our Solution
We re-architected the platform into event-driven microservices deployed on Kubernetes, with a React-based real-time dashboard fed by WebSocket streams. A Redis-backed caching layer ensured market data reached the UI in under 200ms, while PostgreSQL handled transactional integrity for order management. A fully automated CI/CD pipeline on GitHub Actions enabled zero-downtime deployments multiple times per day.
Results
- Reduced average trade execution latency from 1.2 seconds to under 180 milliseconds
- Achieved 99.97% platform uptime over 12 months, exceeding the SLA target
- Enabled the platform to handle 5x peak trading volume without degradation
- Cut deployment cycle from weekend maintenance windows to on-demand releases averaging 12 minutes
- Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 35% through right-sizing and auto-scaling
Technologies Used
“Kenla's team transformed our trading infrastructure. The new platform handles volumes we couldn't have imagined two years ago, and our traders finally have the real-time experience they need to compete.”
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CTO, Financial Services Client
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