Investigate potential performance improvements in a Real Time Clearing system using Content Delivery Network-based technology

Abstract: The increasing demand from customers and users on systems are constantly increasing, demanding faster more robust solutions. There are no exception especially when it comes to clearing technology in the financial industry, where the system needs to handle information fast and be responsive. The thesis have investigated the potential performance improvements by using Content Delivery Network (CDN) based technology on Cinnobers Real Time Clearing system RTC. The thesis have based on constructing a functional CDN node, and look at the impact that it has on the system in regards of handling reference data. Could this approach help improve the system and improve the performance of the system and scalability in regards to reference data handling. Based on the results that was gathered by comparing the node implementation with the original system, there are clear indications performance improvements on the system. Where the results concluded that with the CDN node implementation a performance improvement when requesting reference data, had an increase in fetch time by a factor of 6. By using the results gathered in the thesis, a simulation was created to simulate the effect of a fully scaled CDN. The simulation concluded that the implementation could reduce latency by 44 minutes during a day of use.