Feed handlers are a key component of a market data architecture as they provide the vital link between a customer’s infrastructure and the data feeds from vendors or exchanges or trading applications. Collaborative Software Initiative provides enterprise-ready feed handlers. CSI FeedHandler is a commercially supported open source software product consisting of a growing suite of very low latency high performance market data feed handlers designed to meet the demands of the programmatic and algorithmic trading community. CSI FeedHandler is built on a common framework providing configuration, management, monitoring and error handling. Designed to support integration into the widest possible range of deployment configurations, CSI FeedHandler provides the necessary first step towards an Open Market Data architecture where trading firms can mix and match open source, commercial proprietary, and internally developed components to innovate cost-effective solutions for each firm’s particular needs.
