Aeron Sequencer: A reference overview
Building always-on capital markets systems with state machine replication
Learn how Aeron Sequencer solves critical capital markets challenges, the distributed-systems principles behind it, its core architecture, and how it differs from other sequencer designs.
C-suite and regulators demand that your architecture meet provable availability, correctness & disaster recovery standards - all while performing and scaling in volatile markets.
This technical reference overview explores how Aeron Sequencer addresses these challenges by taking a first-principles approach. We cover how State Machine Replication, total ordering, and consensus-based design solves some of the toughest challenges in capital markets infrastructure.
Table of contents
➞ What is Aeron Sequencer, and how does it work?
➞ Forty years of distributed-systems research, applied to capital markets
➞ From business challenge to platform capability: the chain of reasoning
➞ Aeron Sequencer architecture at a glance
➞ Aeron Sequencer vs traditional sequencer architectures
➞ Aeron Sequencer and the Aeron open source ecosystem
➞ Deployment options: Where Aeron Sequencer runs
➞ Where to go next with Aeron Sequencer
