Aeron Sequencer brings proven state machine replication architecture to capital markets.

Built by world-class distributed systems engineers, it delivers the availability, consistency, low latency, and throughput guarantees your trading systems need – so your teams can focus on the edge that drives your business.

The benefits

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Accelerate time-to-market

Eliminate the need to build commoditized infrastructure and develop differentiated platforms that drive competitive advantage.

Enable 24/7 market operations

Support 24/5 or 24/7 operations, adopting an architecture designed for always-on business, with inter-day configuration updates and rolling upgrades.

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Scale development

Empower teams to deliver independently, allowing your platform to grow seamlessly as your business expands.

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Lower cost of ownership

Minimize operational and maintenance burdens by leveraging an enterprise-grade stack, freeing your engineering resources for high-value innovation.

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Reduce operational risk

Rely on high-performance, resilient software infrastructure maintained by industry experts and used in production at leading capital markets firms.

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Ensure regulatory compliance

Facilitate compliance reporting and audit trails with total ordering for transparent and reliable record-keeping.

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Power business growth

Avoid performance ceilings that inhibits your growth and ambition. Aeron meets the demands of today and the future.

Gain business agility through application portability

Deploy on-prem, in co-lo, or in the cloud, and retain the flexibility to move between environments or cloud providers as your needs evolve.

Content & Case Studies

On-demand Webinar: Introducing Aeron Sequencer

Join Aeron co-creator Martin Thompson in conversation with Matt Barrett to take a deeper look at why we are building Aeron Sequencer and what it will bring to the table.

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Case Study: Developing a digital asset trading platform with Aeron Sequencer

A leading digital asset trading firm, the trading and custody arm of a major financial services company, has embraced crypto in a big way. But to lead in a 24/7 market, they needed to move beyond their legacy technology stack...

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Blog: Aeron Sequencer VS Kafka

While both Apache Kafka and Aeron Sequencer leverage a distributed log as a foundational component, their architectural philosophies and performance characteristics make them suited for very different use cases.

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Webinar: Deep Dive into Sequencer Architectures

Watch our on-demand webinar on sequencer architecture setups and how to support crucial quality attributes, incl. consistency, resilience, performance & availability.

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Video: Aeron Engineers introduce Aeron Sequencer

Discover Aeron Sequencer with Martin Thompson and Aeron developers. Unlock high-performance, decoupled coordination to scale distributed systems with confidence.

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Webinar: Building Distributed Systems in Capital Markets

Watch our 30-min on-demand webinar on distributed systems for capital markets: The evolution of trading system architectures & the pressures on modern tech stacks.

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Aeron Sequencer allows the development of state machine replication at scale via a globally ordered, highly available message log, capable of processing millions of messages a second at microsecond latency.

Technical capabilities/features

  • Core architecture

    • Globally ordered log: Highly available log processing millions of messages per second with platform-wide ordering guarantees.
    • State Machine Replication: Supports building state machine replication resulting in high availability, consistency, low latency, and high throughput at scale.
    • Microsecond latency: Engineered to provide the latency performance required by today’s capital markets.
    • Automatic failover: Fast recovery through snapshots and intelligent state management.
  • Developer experience

    • Simple programming model: Single-threaded, deterministic applications without complex distributed systems code.
    • Deterministic replay: Complete reproducibility for debugging, backtesting, and analysis.
    • Rich client SDK: Clean, well-crafted SDKs make distributed systems complexity manageable through logical, composable interfaces.
    • Operational tooling: Integrated monitoring and operational tooling to run your platform with confidence.
    • Service-level decoupling Isolates business logic into separate services, allowing teams to own their specific domains and release on their own schedules.
  • Deployment flexibility

    • Multiple availability modes: Active/active and active/passive for services.
    • Cloud-native architecture: Designed for ephemeral hardware without multicast dependencies.
    • On-premises support: Compatibility within dedicated hardware environments.
    • Persistent audit trail: Complete history for consistency, fairness, and compliance requirements.
    • 24/7 operations: Continuous operation with near zero-downtime maintenance and updates.

Further reading

Datasheet Aeron Sequencer Overview

Download the Aeron Sequencer Datasheet. Learn about the benefits, technical details and operational considerations of this new technology for capital markets.

Webinar Introducing Aeron Sequencer

Join Aeron co-creator Martin Thompson in conversation with Matt Barrett to take a deeper look at why we are building Aeron Sequencer and what it will bring to the table.

Webinar Deep Dive into Sequencer Architectures

Deep dive into sequencer architectures for capital markets: consistency, resilience, high performance, and availability in distributed systems. Watch the recording.

Case Study Developing a digital asset trading platform with Aeron Sequencer

Learn how a digital asset firm built a 24/7, low-latency trading platform with Aeron Sequencer, achieving high throughput, resilience, and rapid innovation.