Hot Swapping a Bank Part 2: Integration and Migration Prep

Christian A. Sueiras
Clear Street
Published in
Jul 7, 2022

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BK is Clear Street’s proprietary transaction processing system, used to process more than $3 billion in daily trading volume. BK is the newer, faster version of our legacy Book Keeping system, Bank. Where Bank had issues with low throughput, data modeling, and messy points of extension, BK is more agile and scalable, to support our growing business.

In part 1 of this series, I outlined how we identified areas for improvement within Bank and used a data validation system to ensure we were solving those issues when we built BK. In part 2, I’ll discuss how we approached compatibility layers and data migration.

Keep reading on our blog:

www.clearstreet.io/insights/hot-swapping-a-bank-part-2-integration-and-migration-prep

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Christian A. Sueiras
Clear Street

Engineering distributed systems at Clear Street, Alumni of the University of Puerto Rico — Mayagüez, Computer Science/Math.