Real-Time Market Insights — Powering Optiver’s Live Trading Dashboard with Databricks Apps and Dash

In the fast-paced world of trading, real-time insights are critical for making informed decisions. This presentation explores how Optiver, a leading high-frequency trading firm, harnesses Databricks apps to power its live trading dashboards. The technology enables traders to analyze market data, detect patterns and respond instantly. In this talk, we will showcase how our system leverages Databricks’ scalable infrastructures such as Structured Streaming to efficiently handle vast streams of financial data while ensuring low-latency performance. In addition, we will show how the integration of Databricks apps with Dash has empowered traders to rapidly develop and deploy custom dashboards, minimizing dependency on developers. Attendees will gain insights into our architecture, data processing techniques and lessons learned in integrating Databricks apps with Dash in order to drive rapid, data-driven trading decisions.