New Kafka Integration Enhances MosaicOA's Data Analytics

LONDON, JANUARY 6, 2025 – CJC, the leading independent market data technology consulting and services firm, announces the integration of Kafka as the central messaging layer for its flagship IT observability platform, MosaicOA. This strategic upgrade boosts MosaicOA’s performance, scalability, and capabilities, further solidifying CJC’s leadership in managed services and observability solutions.

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Elevating Data Management and Real-Time Analytics

MosaicOA seamlessly connects with industry-leading distribution technologies and messaging platforms, including low-latency exchanges like LSEG RTDS (TREP), Bloomberg B-Pipe, Exegy, and Solace. It enables real-time querying and analytics of IT metrics and events helping clients navigate the demands of modern data environments. Kafka has been integrated as a scalable, client-aligned solution to meet the growing demands for higher throughput and data granularity.

The adoption of Kafka also enhances how mosaicOA subscribes to data from client environments, improves encryption, and speeds up processing. Additionally, it supports future developments that include data science-based and AI-driven visualisations planned for 2025.

Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer of CJC, explained: “Our clients operate high-throughput, low-latency platforms that generate hundreds of thousands of IT system and event metrics every second. MosaicOA stores and visualises this data, delivering actionable insights to market data users and support teams”. For example, during the U.S. election, MosaicOA was instrumental in estimating capacity needs both days and hours in advance, enabling proactive decision-making.

“The growing complexity and scale of client infrastructure demanded a more advanced solution for data ingestion and processing. Kafka provides a reliable, high-performance backbone to manage these data flows end-to-end.”

Enhancing the Managed Services Portfolio

Kafka’s integration strengthens mosaicOA’s alignment with open telemetry systems, enabling support for diverse client infrastructures and applications.

“Our Managed Services portfolio continues to evolve,” Williams added. “Whether clients need traditional on-premises setups, cloud deployments with the big three providers, or specialised platforms like Oracle OCI, we tailor our solutions to meet their needs. This flexibility ensures compatibility with various technologies, including Azure AKS, AWS SQS, Solace, and RTDS. Depending on what technologies the client requires, we default to the best-case monitoring and tooling for the task, such as ITRS, Mosaic, Prometheus, Google Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, etc.”

Driving Innovation in Observability

Paul Gow, Founder & CEO of CJC, celebrated the milestone:  “It’s fantastic to see the multi-award-winning MosaicOA, now approaching its 10^th year in production, continue to thrive in the competitive observability market. MosaicOA remains a trusted and essential tool for our clients, helping them navigate market volatility, prevent outages, and reduce costs.”

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For more information, contact:

The Communications Team

Tel: +44 (0) 203 328 7600 | Email: marketing@cjcit.com

About Crown Jewel Consultants (CJC)

CJC is the leading market data technology consultancy and service provider for global financial markets. CJC provides multi-award-winning consultancy, managed services, cloud solutions, observability, and commercial management services for mission-critical market data systems. CJC is vendor-neutral and ISO 27001 certified, enabling CJC’s partners the freedom to focus on their core business.