How would you design a Stock Exchange meant to operate at scale?
Estimated Usage
- 500 million order per day
- Uniform usage throughout the day
- 200 listed companies on the market
- 1:1 Buy to Sell orders
Functional Requirements
- Users should be able to put in orders to buy or sell
- Users should be able to cancel orders
- Buy orders should be matched to sell orders with the same price if they exist
- User accounts have a balance where they have to preload funds in order to place a buy order
- User should be able to check the current price
Nonfunctional Requirements
- 99.999% reliability
- Price checks need to be updated within 3000 milliseconds
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