How China’s Leading Futures Exchange Achieved Top‑Tier DevOps Continuous Delivery – A Deep Dive
This article details how Shanghai Financial Futures' technology subsidiary passed the Level 3 Continuous Delivery assessment of the national DevOps maturity model, showcasing the platform’s cloud‑native architecture, metric‑driven improvements, challenges faced, and future plans for scaling DevOps practices across the exchange.
Large enterprises worldwide have proven that standardization and tooling are key to success. The DevOps standards and a standards‑based continuous delivery pipeline can significantly improve quality, efficiency, and market competitiveness.
On June 29, 2023, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced the latest batch of DevOps standard assessment results. Shanghai Financial Futures Information Technology Co., Ltd. (the technology arm of the China Financial Futures Exchange) successfully passed the CAICT’s DevOps Capability Maturity Model at Continuous Delivery Level 3 , indicating a leading domestic capability.
In an interview, Chief Engineer Gao Jian described the company’s background, the business collaboration platform project, and its role in the exchange’s digital transformation.
The platform integrates business approval and change management, fully digitizing processes, improving efficiency, and enabling agile delivery through a decoupled, micro‑service, container‑based architecture built on the internally developed “Wukong” platform.
Key benefits from the DevOps assessment include:
Branch model optimization and end‑to‑end value‑stream visibility.
Code review and gate mechanisms ensuring high code quality.
Standardized pipelines delivering rapid feedback and continuous testing.
Metrics such as code coverage >60% (some components >80%), 100% interface coverage, and automated environment provisioning.
Challenges faced were tight timelines due to simultaneous business delivery and standard compliance, and gaps between industry practices and the standard, which were addressed through close collaboration with experts.
Looking ahead, the company plans to deepen platform capabilities, expand automation, and leverage AI and large‑model technologies to create a production‑line data lake for intelligent, data‑driven DevOps.
Industry participation statistics show that, as of June 29, 2023, the securities, fund, and futures sectors have submitted numerous DevOps assessments, with the China Financial Futures Exchange being the first in its category to achieve Level 3 continuous delivery.
The DevOps Capability Maturity Model was jointly developed by CAICT, cloud‑computing alliances, and leading internet companies, and is recognized as the world’s first international DevOps standard.
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