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When I was at QCon London last year, there was much buzz around a talk about a new retail trading system. The thing that got people’s attention was its approach to achieving its high performance needs - reaching 6 million TPS. It does this by running all its business logic on a single JVM thread, getting high speed without all the complications of concurrent programming. This article describes the architecture they use to pull this off.