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Financial Transaction Exchange at BetFair.com

Topics
Security,
Real Time,
Architecture,
Performance & Scalability,
Event Driven Architecture

Betfair is the world's largest betting exchange with a transaction volume the equivalent of over half the combined equity trading volume of every major stock exchange in the world. In response to an increase in transaction volume coupled with a decrease in value per transaction, Betfair launched a number of initiatives to dramatically increase transaction processing capacity and reduce cost.