Building Zero-Downtime Systems with Aeron

Talos’s Co-Founder Ethan Feldman recently spoke at the Aeron Community MeetUp in New York. Ethan provided insights into institutional crypto trading platforms like Talos, where performance, reliability, and innovation are critical. He also explained how Talos leverages Aeron’s capabilities as an open-source, low-latency messaging system to meet the demands of always-on crypto markets.

Here are three key takeaways from the talk:

Talos provides access to the entire digital asset ecosystem via a single entry point

• Talos is an institutional crypto trading software that connects digital asset providers in the crypto ecosystem through a single API/UI. This removes the need to manage multiple connections and platforms for trading and settlement.

Using Aeron enables high-performance, low-latency trading

• Talos leverages Aeron Transport, a high-performance messaging framework that ensures low-latency communication across its platform and uses Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) for message serialization. By utilizing Aeron Transport, Talos ensures the rapid execution of trades for institutional clients who demand speed and reliability.

Talos’s sequencer architecture is designed for zero downtime

• Talos’s sequencer architecture was built using Aeron Transport and Aeron Archive components, designed for high availability to meet the demands of always-on crypto markets. The sequencer architecture ensures sub-millisecond, low-latency execution, and enables zero-downtime upgrades, allowing users to access new features without any disruption to their trading experience.

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