Aegis — Low-Latency Distributed Settlement Gateway
Authored from bare-metal primitives to replace legacy JVM financial message switches. Orchestrates clearing operations between 14 global trading desks and liquidity providers, utilizing custom user-space memory ring buffers to bypass kernel network overhead entirely.
$ aegis-router --cluster=us-east-1 --shards=64
[OK] AF_XDP zero-copy socket descriptor pinned to core #12
[OK] AVX-512 fast-path schema pre-compiled (1,024 vector registers)
[TEL] Rx-Ring: 0x7ffd98b0 | DMA transfer confirmed 0 dropped pkts
[METRIC] Ingestion batch #904821: 42,190 pkts in 422µs [PASS]
[HEARTBEAT] Secondary replica sync latency: 118µs (InfiniBand RDMA)
[NIC 100GbE] ────► [AF_XDP Ring Buffer] (Kernel Bypass)
│
(Zero-Copy DMA)
▼
[AVX-512 Parsing & Schema Val]
│
┌──────────┴──────────┐
▼ ▼
[State Engine Core] [Lock-Free WAL Ring]
│ │
(In-Memory Snapshot) (InfiniBand RDMA Sync)
│ │
▼ ▼
[Outbound Desks] [Cold Storage Parquet]