FIXEdge Cluster Solution Release 1

LB Cluster solution released on March 21, 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.

The solution relies on shared configuration and real-time monitoring of nodes/applications availability to distribute workload across multiple applications.

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 nodes without 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 and is available only for Linux OS (Tested on RHEL 7).

Documentation

Documentation for solution is available here.