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LB Cluster solution released on March 21.03., 2019
EPAM Systems is pleased to announce Load-Balancing Cluster Solution, which improves scalability of FIXEdge/FIXAntenna - based systems.
It allows to run multiple computing and storage nodes with FIXEdge/FA applications.
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It reduces service downtime and simplifies configuration maintenance.
Key Features
- Load-Balancing - input FIX-session flow is uniformly distributed between active FIXEdge nodes (by now acceptor sessions only).
- Fault tolerance - in case one of the FIXEdge nodes fails, session flow is redirected automatically to remaining active nodeswithout messages loss.
- Centralized configuration management - including add/remove/modify sessions and schedules configuration. Command-line tool for configuration management has been introduced.
- Centralized service management based on Consul - to provide component coordination and health checks.
- Shared FIX storage - to store FIX messages and all configuration information. Oracle data base used in this version.
- Centralized logging of FIXEdge events – events could be logged to Splunk .
Constraints
Please note, that current solution release is implied to support only acceptor sessions.
Documentation
Documentation for solution is available here.