At Tectonic Summit in December 2015, Rob Cornish, CTO of International Securities Exchange, and Paul Morgan, Systems Architect, International Securities Exchange spoke about how they use containers across the cloud and data center.

1. *This presentation is for internal use only.
Containers
across the Cloud and Data Centers
2015 Dec 02

2. Rob Cornish
CTO
@robcornish on github
Paul Morgan
Systems Architect
@jumanjiman on github and twitter

3. ISE and ISE Gemini
Founded in 1997
Options on over 2,000 underlying equity, ETF, index and FX products
May 2000: first all-electronic options exchange in the US
March 2005: first U.S. securities exchange to go public
December 2007: merged with Eurex and became part of Deutsche Börse Group
Recent: filed for a third exchange license to launch ISE Mercury

4. Competitive landscape
U.S. options market environment:
13 current exchanges
At least one additional planned for 2016
Differentiation driven by:
Market structure
Pricing model
Technology platform
Functionality

5. What we want
faster time to market
higher quality
better time to resolution
reduce human error
eliminate redundancies
quicker & more reliable fallback
enhanced business efficiency

6. Culture and collaboration

7. Raising the bar

8. ISE data centers: infrastructure as code
source: Duke Energy map of power grids

9. Invisible infrastructure
CoreOS provides system security and reliable updates
Docker containers for isolation, reliability, and time to market
Weave enables multicast in the cloud
ISE multicast proxy connects market data feeds across data centers
AWS provides elastic compute and storage
Terraform provides cloud-agnostic infrastructure
Duo Security provides two-factor authentication
Open-source tools provide data sync to S3

10. Example: integration with etcd

11. Trading system on CoreOS & containers

12. Outcomes
Fully automated configuration and orchestration
Build, test, deploy pipeline begins with code check-in
Rapid, continuous delivery
Run workloads across any infrastructure
Launched new markets with no additional headcount
IT spend reduced more than 25% since 2011

13. Questions?