How Shenwan Hongyuan Built a Cloud‑Native Business Middle Platform: A Case Study
At the 21st GOPS Global Operations Conference, Shenwan Hongyuan’s senior product manager presented a detailed case study of their cloud‑native business middle platform, outlining challenges such as siloed systems, the goals of creating an open, flexible, high‑efficiency platform, and the stepwise evolution from version 1.0 to 3.0.
Conference Overview
On October 26‑27, 2023 the 21st GOPS Global Operations Conference was held in Shanghai. Experts from China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of Communications, Shenwan Hongyuan Securities and many other institutions shared insights on DevOps, AIOps, SRE, continuous testing, and security.
Presentation: Shenwan Hongyuan Cloud‑Native Business Middle Platform
Senior product manager Song Xiaofei from Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Development Department II delivered a talk titled “Shenwan Hongyuan Cloud‑Native Business Middle Platform”.
Background and Goals
Problems identified:
Numerous “chimney‑style” siloed systems leading to heavy duplicate development.
Independent systems with complex mesh integration, resulting in poor business collaboration.
Low R&D knowledge retention, monolithic architecture causing low efficiency and high risk.
Limited control over the technical roadmap.
Goal: Build an open, shared, flexible, and high‑efficiency platform and system.
Key objectives:
Ecology construction – promote a middle‑platform approach to support multiple headquarters and business domains.
R&D system – establish development frameworks, upgrade the R&D platform, define standards, explore best practices, and deliver reusable solutions.
Technical foundation – develop cloud‑native infrastructure and advance “Xinchuang” (indigenous innovation) initiatives.
Construction Process
Business Middle Platform 1.0
Starting with account opening and business processing scenarios, the team introduced cloud‑native technologies and refactored the business using micro‑service principles. After successful validation, the platform transitioned from a project‑level solution to a platform‑level offering and was extended to multiple domains.
Business Middle Platform 2.0
The 2.0 version split the comprehensive business acceptance platform into three parts: business middle platform, technology middle platform, and R&D system. The technology middle platform serves as the foundation, providing a reusable technical base and consolidated development‑testing standards for other teams.
Business Middle Platform 3.0
Currently the platform hosts over 120 micro‑services and more than 7,000 APIs, integrates 115 upstream systems and 30 downstream services, and involves 11 teams across 19 projects or special initiatives.
The ultimate aim is to establish a stable backend, a robust middle platform, and a lightweight front‑end, using the technology middle platform as a base combined with data middle and intelligent services to break silos and create a shared development platform that drives business innovation.
Further Resources
Full video and PPT are available. The PPT can be downloaded from the following link:
https://pan.baidu.com/s/1q2LZV7grpSsnWhshzBpE7g?pwd=cjiv
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