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October 12–14, 2015 • New York, NY
David Halsey

David Halsey
VP, Performance Engineering, Fidelity Investments

@Dave_Halsey

Dave Halsey is the VP of Performance Engineering for Fidelity Institutional, a division of Fidelity Investments servicing financial intermediary firms. Dave has over 15 years of experience building and leading Performance Engineering organizations specializing in the financial services industry.

Sessions

11:30am–12:00pm Monday, 10/12/2015
Too big to test: Breaking a production brokerage platform without causing financial devastation
Location: Rhinelander South
Kyle Parrish (Fidelity Investments), David Halsey (Fidelity Investments)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 4 ratings)
How do you stress test a brokerage system in production if you can't risk orders processing, trades executing, or violating regulatory obligations? The answer used to be, "we don't." But the flash crash and other market anomalies exposed the risks inherent in not testing production. Hear what we learned as we built a way to do what had been written off as “too big to test.” Read more.
2:10pm–2:50pm Wednesday, 10/14/2015
Too big to test: Breaking a production brokerage platform without causing financial devastation
Location: Beekman Parlor
Tags: Performance, Enterprise, Organizational optimization
Kyle Parrish (Fidelity Investments), David Halsey (Fidelity Investments)
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 6 ratings)
How do you stress test a brokerage system in production if you can't risk orders processing, trades executing, or violating regulatory obligations? The answer used to be: "We don't." But the flash crash and other market anomalies exposed the risks inherent in not testing production. Hear what we learned as we built a way to do what had been written off as "too big to test." Read more.

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