This service implements the Execution Venue API to be used to submit, modify and cancel orders. It is responsible for reconciling and managing order state and publishing updates to the Kafka order store. It talks to the simulator using a p2p FIX connection. It can be easily scaled by increasing the statefulsets replica count, the order router will automatically partition the flow across the available execution venues for the given market based upon the order's listing id. The out of the box configuration of OTP runs with 2 execution venues per market (market simulator).