AI‑Accelerated Model‑Driven Development

Description Electronic trading has become a hyper‑competitive arms race. Exponentially expanding market‑data volumes and uncompromising demands for ultra‑low‑latency, fault‑intolerant systems have rendered traditional development approaches obsolete. The same pressures now govern networking, databases, and analytics infrastructure stacks. This talk introduces AI‑accelerated, model‑driven development, powered by protocol compilers that transform formal exchange specifications and internal system definitions into complete, production‑ready infrastructure. By treating every protocol — market data, order entry, internal routing, broker interfaces, network transport, database schemas, and analytics pipelines — as a structured, navigable model, we can generate the entire software stack directly from the specifications. AI systems assist in validation and transformation, while protocol compilers enforce determinism and reproducibility. Across trading firms, brokerages, exchanges, and any high-performance distributed system, protocol compilers now generate nearly the entire operational surface area: network telemetry, market‑data infrastructure, brokerage systems, analytics pipelines, database transforms, and internal routing logic. Only proprietary strategy logic remains outside compiler scope. This approach collapses entire categories of engineering work into automated, verifiable processes. Join us as we explore the evolution of exchange protocols and code generation and demonstrate the latest technologies powering the Open Markets Initiative, where AI‑accelerated protocol compilers have contributed tens of millions of lines of open‑source infrastructure code used around the world. These technologies are reshaping infrastructure engineering across distributed systems and the modern financial ecosystem. About the Presenter William Tegel is the founder of the Open Markets Initiative and Scaled Sources and a long time C++ developer. Details We will be…