How China’s CFFEX Tech Company Achieved Top‑Tier DevOps Continuous Delivery Rating

Domestic and international large‑scale enterprises have demonstrated that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success. The DevOps standards and a standards‑based continuous delivery pipeline can significantly improve quality, efficiency, safety, and agility, enhancing market competitiveness.

On 29 June 2023, the China Information Communication Research Institute (CAICT) released the latest batch of DevOps standard assessment results. Shanghai Financial Futures Information Technology Co., Ltd. (CFFEX Tech) participated with its "CFFEX Business Collaboration Platform" project and successfully passed the CAICT "R&D‑Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" Continuous Delivery Level 3 assessment, indicating a leading domestic capability.

The project is the first among domestic securities and futures exchange technology subsidiaries to achieve a Level 3 continuous delivery assessment.

Q & A

Introduce your company and the evaluated project

CFFEX Tech, a wholly‑owned subsidiary of the China Financial Futures Exchange approved by the CSRC, builds and operates the exchange’s information systems and data centers. The Business Collaboration Platform, a core component of the exchange’s digital transformation, provides a one‑stop portal for employees, integrating approval and change‑management functions, fully digitizing business processes, and dramatically improving efficiency and decision‑making.

Feelings on achieving Level 3

The Level 3 rating confirms that the platform’s DevOps capabilities are industry‑leading, validating years of digital transformation and DevOps adoption, and supporting the exchange’s rapid response and delivery goals.

Why join the DevOps assessment?

Guided by the CSRC’s “14th‑5th” plan for digital transformation and risk‑aware regulation, CFFEX Tech pursued cloud‑based infrastructure, micro‑service and container architectures, and platform‑centric delivery to support safe, stable, and efficient operations.

Benefits of the assessment

The assessment highlighted concrete metrics and improvement directions, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, higher code quality, faster feedback, and broader adoption of DevOps practices across projects.

Key metrics achieved

Branch model optimization enabled end‑to‑end value‑stream visibility. Code review and gate mechanisms improved code quality. Continuous deployment pipelines achieved rapid testing and feedback. Code coverage rose above 60 % (some components over 80 %), interface coverage reached 100 %, and a self‑service cloud platform now provides minute‑level environment provisioning.

Project architecture

The platform is built on CFFEX Tech’s self‑developed micro‑service framework (Wukong), employing domain‑driven design, container orchestration, and multi‑architecture service images, enabling agile delivery and decoupling core systems from general business services.

Challenges and solutions

Simultaneous business delivery and standards compliance created tight schedules, compounded by post‑COVID pressures. The team prioritized tasks, coordinated across development, operations, security, and testing, and iteratively refined processes to meet the standards.

Future outlook

CFFEX Tech plans to deepen platform capabilities, expand the delivery chain, and advance cloud‑native and data‑driven DevOps. Leveraging massive operational data, AI, and large‑language models, the company aims to shift from process‑driven to data‑driven software delivery, enhancing automation, intelligent assistance, and overall efficiency.

For more details on the DevOps capability maturity model and assessment statistics, see the CAICT resources.