INTERMEDIATE // TRADING DESK
MODULE 10 // OPERATIONS

Trading Desk Deployment.

Deploy and operate ABIS in production trading environments with zero tolerance for downtime.

PRODUCTION OPERATIONS

Trading environments demand extreme reliability. ABIS deployment must achieve five-nines availability (99.999%) with graceful degradation when issues occur. Downtime during market hours is unacceptable.

Key operational requirements: automated failover between ABIS instances, circuit breakers that allow trading to continue if ABIS fails, comprehensive monitoring and alerting, and change management processes that prevent deployment-related outages.

Testing in production-like environments is essential. Trading systems have unique characteristics (market data patterns, order flow volumes) that development environments cannot replicate. Comprehensive pre-production testing prevents production surprises.

ACTIVE

Primary Active

Primary ABIS instance processing all requests. Secondary on hot standby.

FAILOVER

Failover Active

Primary failed, secondary promoted. Automatic within milliseconds.

DEGRADED

Degraded Mode

Both instances unavailable. Trading continues with fallback rules. Alert operations.

KNOWLEDGE CHECK // Q10
Why must ABIS deployment include 'degraded mode' where trading continues without ABIS?