Building High‑Fidelity Simulation Environments for Financial IT: Lessons and Practices

Mature distributed, micro‑service, and cloud‑native technologies are driving the evolution of traditional securities firm architectures, while regulatory policies accelerate fintech adoption. In this context, the talk examines how to mitigate risks from coexisting legacy and new technologies, ensure business continuity, and handle zero‑tolerance production incidents.

Talk Topic: Testing New Heights – Exploration and Practice of High‑Fidelity Simulation Environment in Finance

Speaker: Zhai Pengcheng, senior operations expert from a leading securities firm.

Audience Benefits

Understand securities IT system architecture.

Learn the goals, technical solutions, and future plans for building high‑fidelity simulation environments.

Explore typical business scenarios that such environments can support.

Gain practical insights from real‑world implementation to stimulate industry discussion.

Topic Overview

Since 2020, the featured securities firm has been planning and constructing a high‑fidelity environment that mirrors production in deployment architecture, upgrade methods, parameter configuration, and system data. By conducting pre‑release testing, performance stress tests, stability engineering, emergency drills, and deployment simulations in this environment, the firm avoids defect leakage into production and reduces online operational risk. The presentation covers simulation systems, monitoring frameworks, and industry applications in a comprehensive manner.

Outline

Overview of the high‑fidelity environment construction at a leading securities firm.

Key assurance solutions for achieving high‑fidelity capabilities.

Practical approaches to building a comprehensive monitoring system for the environment.

Core application scenarios and achieved outcomes.

Speaker Bio

The speaker is an operations engineer in the IT department of a leading securities firm, holding a bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University and a master's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. With extensive experience in wireless communications, cloud computing, internet services, and securities IT, he leads the standardization, normalization, institutionalization, and effectiveness of the high‑fidelity environment, guiding its routine operation and maintenance.