How Guojin Securities Reached Level‑3 DevOps Continuous Delivery – A Success Story
Guojin Securities' Commission Treasure App achieved Level‑3 continuous delivery in the CAICT DevOps assessment, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, tool integration, and a unified platform boosted development efficiency, security, and digital transformation across the financial services sector.
Large enterprises have proven that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success. The CAICT released the latest batch of DevOps and AIOps standards assessment results on December 26, 2022, and Guojin Securities' Commission Treasure App "Wave‑Gold" project passed the Level‑3 continuous delivery evaluation, indicating a leading domestic DevOps capability.
Interview Overview
Q: Please introduce your company and the project you evaluated. Zheng Jianliang, FinTech Director of Guojin Securities, described the company’s background, subsidiaries, and its mission to provide efficient, reliable financial services. The evaluated project, the Wave‑Gold feature in the Commission Treasure App, offers personalized stock timing signals, free signing for customers, and differentiated commissions based on profit, aiming to reduce holding costs and support staff outreach.
Q: How does the DevOps assessment benefit your enterprise? Xiong Yougen, General Manager of the Technology Development Center, highlighted economic benefits such as improved development efficiency, enhanced security controls, visualized process management, traceable data, and higher continuous delivery maturity, as well as social benefits by contributing to the securities industry’s digital transformation.
Q: What were the main technical challenges? Chen Zhihao, DevOps Project Manager, explained that the platform required comprehensive capabilities (code, artifact, pipeline, test, deployment, metrics) and had to integrate both containerized and non‑containerized services across dual‑active data centers. They built a custom pipeline engine using GitLab Runner, Ansible, and ArgoCD to support hybrid deployments.
Economic and Social Benefits
Improved development efficiency: Standardized processes integrated with existing toolchains enabled continuous integration and deployment, breaking down silos between development, testing, and operations.
Enhanced security control: Unified code and artifact management with automated scanning reduced security risks.
Process visualization: Unified workflows provided clear visibility of project stages and progress.
Data traceability: An end‑to‑end measurement system offered fine‑grained metrics for continuous improvement.
Higher continuous delivery maturity: The platform lifted the company’s delivery capability to the industry‑leading Level‑3.
Social impact: The DevOps platform supports the securities industry’s digital transformation guidelines, offering valuable experience for the sector.
Key Metrics After Implementation
Static code coverage: >50% for existing code, >70% for new code, 100% success rate.
Automated API and UI test pass rate: 100% with >90% success.
Average daily merges to main branch: 1.86 times.
Average delivery cycle reduced from one month to one week.
Release frequency increased from once per month to four times per month.
Production automated deployment success rate: 100%.
Technical Architecture
The Wave‑Gold service interacts with several systems (Integrated Management Platform, Hengsheng Counter, Data Research CRM). Customers sign contracts via the app, receive signals, and execute trades. The backend consists of five Java micro‑services containerized across two active‑active data centers (two pods per service). The H5 front‑end is non‑containerized, accessed through F5 load balancers and NG reverse proxy with Node forwarding.
DevOps Standard and Assessment Details
The R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model is a joint effort by CAICT, cloud‑computing alliances, and leading internet companies, recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and adopted by many financial and telecom firms. It became the world’s first international DevOps standard when approved by ITU‑T in July 2020.
The model covers process (agile management, continuous delivery, technical operation), application design, security, system and tools, business value management, collaborative development, and continuous testing.
Contact Information (for assessment inquiries)
China Academy of Information and Communications Technology – Liu Kailing Phone: 15650786171 (WeChat) Email: [email protected]
Efficient Operations Community – Wei Huanxin Phone: 18500255645 (WeChat) Email: [email protected]
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