How Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange’s Tech Team Earned Top‑Tier DevOps Continuous Delivery Certification

Large enterprises worldwide have proven that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success; adopting DevOps standards and a continuous‑delivery pipeline can significantly improve quality, efficiency, safety, and market competitiveness.

On October 26, 2023, the 21st GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai announced that Zhengzhou Yisheng Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange Technology Company) passed the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) DevOps Capability Maturity Model continuous‑delivery Level 3 assessment for two projects: the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange Off‑Market Integrated Business Platform and the Member Service Platform, marking a domestic leading level.

Q&A

Q: Please introduce yourself, your company, and the projects evaluated.

Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange Technology Company, founded in 2002, is wholly owned by the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange and focuses on fintech solutions, providing trading, settlement, delivery, and risk‑control services, as well as innovative off‑market and index products.

Q: How do you feel about passing the DevOps Level 3 continuous‑delivery assessment?

We are thrilled that both exchange‑focused projects achieved Level 3, confirming our leading position in continuous delivery, recognizing years of R&D process optimization, and validating our DevOps system.

Q: Why did you decide to join the DevOps assessment?

Following the CSRC’s “14th Five‑Year Plan” for securities‑futures technology, we committed to digital transformation, building a DevOps system that emphasizes standardization, automation, and tooling to improve delivery value.

Q: What benefits has the assessment brought to your enterprise and team?

The assessment drove improvements in development processes, tool platforms, and team communication, increasing delivery speed, quality, transparency, and fostering tighter collaboration and trust.

Q: Which metrics demonstrate the improvement?

Delivery cycle reduced from ~30 days to ~7 days, unit‑test coverage rose above 50%, interface‑test coverage reached 100%, and average build time fell to about 5 minutes.

Q: What are the technical characteristics of the evaluated systems?

Both projects adopt domain‑driven design and service‑oriented architecture, enabling business‑technology alignment, service mirroring, and deployment.

Q: Was the assessment process smooth? What challenges did you face?

Overall smooth, but challenges included a long toolchain across many departments and varying understanding of DevOps standards; we addressed them through cross‑department collaboration, training, and shared best‑practice mechanisms.

Q: What is your biggest takeaway and next step?

The assessment validates our DevOps foundation and provides benchmark projects for broader rollout; future work will focus on further standardizing, tooling, and automating processes to reduce complexity and enhance developer experience.

Q: How do you view the future of DevOps?

With cloud and container adoption rising, DevOps will continue to grow, but its success depends on culture and teamwork; platform engineering may become the next evolution, offering one‑stop services that hide complexity while promoting focused collaboration.

Images illustrating the assessment ceremony and results are included below.