Aeron, the open-source technology for low-latency, high-throughput messaging and fault-tolerant clustering, is powering front-office trading systems across the globe.
The Aeron Community MeetUps are a series of events, designed for users of the Aeron technology, those who are keen to learn more about it, open-source contributors, and anyone interested in the latest developments in high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant trading applications!
Dates & Times
All MeetUps commence at 4.30pm with networking, followed by two hours of presentations and knowledge sharing and wrapping up at 8pm.
— Thu, 10th October in Chicago
— Thu, 7th November in New York
— Thu, 21st November in London
What’s on the agenda
The fall MeetUps will cover a range of technical sessions, including:
- Introducing Aeron and its components
- Aeron – What’s New/Latest releases – Discover the latest updates in Aeron 1.45.0, designed to boost performance, availability, and usability.
- Focus topic: SBE (Single Binary Encoding) – Dive into the world’s most efficient message encoding standard. Serialization is a significant cost factor in high-performance systems. We explore how SBE addresses this issue.
- Technical Deep Dive: Using RAFT in trading system design. Contrary to popular belief, consensus can be fast. We’ll explore the RAFT consensus algorithm and its implementation in the Aeron Cluster.
Additionally, there will be real-life use case presentations from industry guest speakers sharing their Aeron journey: implementation, challenges, tips and outcomes.
Our guest speakers:
Chicago:
- Kevin Young, VP of Engineering / Head of Core Trade, DriveWealth
New York:
- Frank Yu, Director of Engineering, Coinbase
- Amit Khandelwal, VP Trading Architecture, Fidelity
London:
- Wenzhe Hu, Senior Software Engineer, IMMIX
- Andrew Mann, Cofounder, IMMIX
- More to be announced shortly
The Aeron Community Meetups provide an excellent opportunity for networking among peers, knowledge sharing and speaking to the developers behind Aeron. Register here >>
Want to know what you missed during previous MeetUps? You can refer back to use highlight and use case presentations from the likes of Man Group, SIX Interbank Clearing, Talos and Brevan Howards here >>
