Modern Approaches to Building Distributed Systems in Capital Markets

Tech stack challenges, quality attributes, and architecture options explained

In today's fast-paced and volatile capital markets, building robust and efficient distributed systems is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge. In our upcoming webinar series, we explore the challenges firms face and how they can be addressed through modern architecture options.

Join us for a 30-minute webinar where we explore the evolution of trading system architectures, the pressures on modern tech stacks, and the non-negotiable quality attributes essential for success.

Discover the pros and cons of various architectural options, understand why popular architectural choices fail to meet all quality requirements, and learn why sequencer-style setups are the game-changer the industry needs.

Date & Time:

Recorded on 10 July 2025

Agenda:

• Characteristics of modern Capital Markets systems, including:
  → Real-world use case: Broker-dealer systems.
  → Intro to crucial quality attributes: Consistency, availability, resiliency, and performance.

• Crash course in architecture evolution from introducing architecture options, their pros and cons, and will cover:
  → Monolith Architectures
  → Service-Oriented Architectures incl. Microservices
  • The issue of data dependency between services
  • Missing quality attributes
  → Event-Driven Architectures
  → Sequenced Architectures
  • Island Architectures
  • Clusters & Consensus
  • Global ordering between services
    
    
• The way that Adaptive builds systems