Real-Time Trading Dashboards with Databricks Apps and Dash

Real-Time Trading Dashboards with Databricks Apps and Dash

Presented at the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025

In trading, speed and insight go hand in hand. At the 2025 Databricks Data + AI Summit, Optiver shared how we built low-latency, self-serve dashboards by integrating Databricks Apps with Dash. The result: real-time market visibility that scales with both data and decision-making.

From Fragmented Systems to Live Insights at Scale

In the session “Real-Time Market Insights — Powering Optiver’s Live Trading Dashboard with Databricks Apps and Dash,” attendees got an inside look at how we:

• Replaced siloed, on-prem systems with a unified, petabyte-scale Databricks platform
• Cut end-to-end latency from minutes to seconds through Spark and Structured Streaming optimization
• Empowered traders to build and iterate on dashboards without engineering support
• Solved scale and reliability challenges with smart caching, version control, and modular dashboard generation

By hosting Dash apps directly on Databricks, we eliminated infrastructure overhead while enforcing fine-grained access controls through Unity Catalog. The result is a dashboarding ecosystem that balances trader autonomy with engineering performance — built for impact at speed and scale.

Watch the Talk

For engineers working with real-time systems, market data, or scalable streaming architectures, this talk is a deep dive worth watching.

Interested in building systems like this?

At Optiver, our engineers work on low latency pipelines, real-time analytics and scalable infrastructure to support fast and informed decision making. We’re hiring data engineers in Chicago, Sydney, and London — explore the roles and apply today.