Projects sharing features with Aeron

Boost is a collection of portable, high-performance source libraries that extend the C++ standard library. It provides a wide range of reusable components, data structures, and algorithms designed to add capabilities to the base language across different platforms. The project is distinguished by its extensive focus on compile-time template metaprogramming and generic programming. It implements advanced architectural patterns such as policy-based design, concept-based type validation, and the use of SFINAE for conditional template resolution to minimize runtime overhead. The library covers a

RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform designed for building event-driven applications. It serves as middleware to decouple services using publish-subscribe and request-reply patterns, and functions as a transactional messaging system that ensures atomicity by linking message delivery to local transaction outcomes. The platform includes specialized capabilities as a Kubernetes-native message broker for container orchestration environments and an MQTT broker for ingesting event data from mobile applications and hardware terminals. The system covers high-throughput data str

GameNetworkingSockets is a UDP networking library providing secure transport, peer discovery, and traffic control systems. It implements a networking layer for reliable and unreliable messaging over UDP, including tools for message fragmentation and reassembly. The project features a peer-to-peer NAT traversal tool for establishing direct host-to-host connections by punching through firewalls and network address translation layers. It secures network traffic through encrypted transport and secure key exchange. The library includes a traffic manager to organize data into prioritized lanes to

KCP is a low-latency transport protocol and reliability layer designed to provide TCP-like guaranteed delivery and ordering over UDP. It implements an automatic repeat request protocol to minimize network jitter and delays, prioritizing timeliness over bandwidth efficiency. The project distinguishes itself through a pluggable congestion controller and flow control logic, allowing the transport layer to be tuned for specific network environments. It includes a NAT keep-alive system that uses periodic heartbeat packets to maintain active communication paths and prevent address translation timeo

MsQuic is a cross-platform, C-based implementation of the QUIC protocol. It provides a network library for establishing encrypted and authenticated transport links over UDP, integrating TLS to ensure all data flows between endpoints are encrypted. The implementation utilizes a language-agnostic binding layer to support high-level languages including C#, Rust, and C++. It features connection-ID based migration to maintain active sessions when IP addresses or ports change, and employs multi-stream multiplexing to manage independent data flows within a single connection. The library covers netw

This project is a collection of single-header libraries providing a zero-dependency implementation of core game engine systems. It serves as a portable toolkit for 2D game development, focusing on asset loading, graphics optimization, and low-level system coordination. The libraries offer specialized capabilities for 2D sprite rendering and asset processing, including texture atlas compilation and batch-based rendering to reduce draw calls. It includes a dedicated pipeline for parsing Aseprite files and JSON-formatted map data from Tiled. The toolkit covers several functional domains, includ

This project is a full-featured BitTorrent client library and protocol implementation. It provides the core components necessary for peer-to-peer file sharing, including a networking stack that supports the BitTorrent specification, tracker communication, and swarm management. A primary differentiator is the inclusion of a virtual filesystem that allows torrents to be mounted as read-only drives. This system enables on-demand content streaming, where specific data pieces are fetched from the network only when a read request occurs, rather than requiring the entire archive to be downloaded fir

Quinn is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Rust. It provides the capabilities necessary to establish secure network connections and manage both reliable data streams and unreliable datagram transmissions. The project features a deterministic protocol state machine that decouples event processing from network I/O operations. It employs a stream-multiplexing engine to handle multiple independent bidirectional and unidirectional data streams over a single shared UDP-based connection. Security is handled through a TLS-integrated handshake and a pluggable cryptographic identity system, wh

Async-raft is an asynchronous consensus framework built on Rust for coordinating replicated state machines across distributed nodes. The library implements a leader-based consensus algorithm to ensure data consistency and fault tolerance, managing inter-node communication, log replication, and automated snapshot creation. The framework supports dynamic cluster topology modifications at runtime, allowing nodes to be added or removed without downtime through intermediate configuration phases. It handles log replication through batched and pipelined streaming with congestion control, alongside

libhv is a high-performance C/C++ network library and event-driven I/O framework used to build TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT clients and servers. It provides a non-blocking event loop for managing network sockets, timers, and system signals across multiple threads. The project is distinguished by its integrated support for specialized network roles, including a full HTTP web server with RESTful routing and middleware, an MQTT messaging client for IoT communication, and the ability to implement SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies. It also features a reliable UDP implementation to ensure ordered

kcp-go is a Go library implementing the KCP protocol for reliable data transmission over UDP. It provides a stream-based transport layer and an automatic repeat request network protocol to ensure ordered delivery while reducing network tail latency. The project differentiates itself through the use of forward error correction via Reed-Solomon codes to reconstruct lost packets without retransmissions. It also implements secure UDP tunneling by using block ciphers to encrypt both packet headers and payloads. The library includes capabilities for high-throughput networking through batch system

ConcurrentQueue is a header-only C++ template library that provides a lock-free data structure for multi-producer multi-consumer thread communication. It functions as a synchronization primitive designed to coordinate data flow between concurrent execution units using atomic operations rather than traditional mutex locking. The library distinguishes itself through a design that minimizes contention and synchronization overhead. It utilizes sub-queue token mapping to distribute workloads across partitioned internal queues and supports bulk operations to transfer multiple data elements in singl

JCTools is a Java concurrency library providing a collection of lock-less and wait-free data structures. It serves as a toolkit for managing thread-safe data exchange, specifically designed to optimize high-throughput messaging and producer-consumer patterns in multi-threaded applications. The library distinguishes itself by implementing specialized queue structures that minimize contention and maximize throughput. By utilizing techniques such as cache-line padding, memory-barrier-based synchronization, and relaxed-consistency memory ordering, it avoids the performance bottlenecks often assoc

This project provides educational materials and courseware focused on the theoretical and practical foundations of distributed systems design. It serves as a comprehensive curriculum covering the disciplines of consensus, data consistency, reliability engineering, and scalability. The instructional content focuses on achieving cluster agreement through consensus algorithms and managing system-wide state via coordination frameworks. It includes a dedicated guide to data theory, exploring replication strategies, consistency models, and data convergence. The courseware covers a broad capability

This project is a software engineering educational resource providing a collection of canonical system implementations. It serves as a library of computer science case studies and polyglot code examples designed to demonstrate architectural tradeoffs and design patterns through concise versions of fundamental software components. The repository focuses on studying the implementation of core concepts such as consensus algorithms, interpreters, and database engines. It provides minimal versions of complex systems to facilitate the analysis of language design, data structure implementation, and

Hyperledger Fabric is a permissioned blockchain framework and enterprise blockchain platform designed for maintaining shared, immutable records of transactions across a network of authorized participants. It provides the infrastructure to build and manage private distributed ledgers that prioritize data confidentiality and scalability. The platform is distinguished by a modular architecture and a pluggable consensus engine. This design allows internal system implementations to be swapped with custom modules to adapt the ledger's behavior and consensus mechanisms to specific technical or indus

nanomsg is a distributed messaging middleware and scalable messaging library designed for moving data between machines and processes. It functions as a socket-based communication framework that routes data across different network transport layers. The library implements scalable messaging patterns, specifically request-reply and publish-subscribe, to handle high volumes of data across distributed systems. It provides tools for network performance benchmarking to quantify messaging throughput and latency. The framework supports distributed message routing and inter-process communication usin

Ribbon is a client-side load balancer and RPC communication library designed for inter-process communication. It functions as a fault-tolerant network proxy that distributes outgoing network requests across a pool of available server instances to prevent node overload. The project integrates as a service discovery client, maintaining synchronized lists of available server instances by connecting with cloud environment discovery tools. This allows it to manage request retries and failover behavior when remote servers become unresponsive. The library supports a protocol-agnostic transport laye

This is an open-source, crowd-sourced wiki textbook that teaches Linux system programming in C. It covers the core operating system concepts of process management through the fork-exec-wait model, dynamic memory allocation using implicit free list heap allocators, inode-based file systems, inter-process communication via pipes and shared memory, POSIX threads with synchronization primitives, signal-based asynchronous notification, virtual memory with page table translation, and runtime diagnostics using Valgrind and GDB. The textbook distinguishes itself by providing practical, implementation

spdlog is a high-performance C++ logging library designed to record diagnostic messages and application events. It serves as an asynchronous logging framework and thread-safe library that coordinates access across concurrent threads to maintain message integrity. The project functions as a multi-target log router, distributing single events to multiple destinations such as consoles, files, and system daemons. It includes a log rotation manager that handles file lifecycles through basic, rotating, or daily rollover strategies to prevent disk exhaustion. The library covers a broad range of cap

Dragonboat is a Go implementation of the Raft consensus protocol designed to maintain consistent state across a distributed cluster of nodes. It provides a library for building distributed state machines that ensure data integrity and fault tolerance during system failures. The project distinguishes itself through a multi-group Raft implementation, which partitions data across independent consensus groups to distribute workloads and increase overall system processing capacity. It also incorporates mutual TLS to encrypt inter-node communication and verify the identity of cluster members. The

Electrobun is a desktop application framework and webview-based GUI toolkit used for building cross-platform desktop apps. It provides a TypeScript-based runtime and a native system webview to create interfaces that integrate embedded browser views with host-process logic. The project features a native GPU integration layer with direct FFI bindings, allowing for high-performance GPU surfaces and compute workloads to run within a desktop application. It also includes an inter-process communication bridge using a typed RPC system to exchange data and execute functions between the native backend

Cosmos SDK is a modular blockchain application framework and software development kit used to build sovereign layer-one networks. It provides a foundation for creating customizable blockchains featuring native interoperability, sovereign governance, and Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus engines. The framework is distinguished by its inter-blockchain communication protocol, which enables the transfer of byte-encoded data and digital assets between independent blockchain networks. It supports multiple consensus models, including Proof of Stake and Proof of Authority, and allows for the integra

This project is a reference library and collection of practical code samples for building browser extensions using WebExtensions APIs. It provides implementation guides and functional examples for core extension components, including content scripts, background processes, and browser action popups. The repository focuses on demonstrating specific implementation patterns for browser UI customization and web page manipulation. It includes samples for creating sidebars, context menus, and options pages, as well as techniques for injecting scripts and styles to alter DOM elements and page appeara

This is a Raft consensus library and distributed consensus engine implemented in Go. It provides the primitives necessary to build fault-tolerant distributed services by implementing a replicated state machine that ensures a group of servers agree on a shared system state through leader election and log replication. The project distinguishes itself through a pluggable architecture for storage backends and snapshot storage, decoupling the consensus logic from physical persistence. It includes specialized mechanisms for leadership transfer, protocol version management to support rolling upgrade

Iggy is a distributed message streaming platform and multi-protocol message broker that functions as a persistent distributed log store. It provides infrastructure for publishing and consuming binary messages using an append-only log, ensuring high availability and data consistency across nodes through Viewstamped Replication. The platform is distinguished by its specialized LLM streaming infrastructure, which uses a server protocol to connect large language models to streaming data and system controls. This includes standardized protocols for context management and data bridging via HTTP or

Folly is a collection of high-performance C++ components designed as an extension to the C++ Standard Library for large-scale production environments. It provides specialized toolkits for memory management, concurrency, asynchronous workflows, and low-latency input and output operations. The project distinguishes itself through the provision of lock-free containers and bounded queues to minimize contention in multi-threaded applications, alongside a framework for managing deferred computations using futures and promises. It further offers specialized memory arenas and optimized implementation