Gradient Geeks is an open-source engineering collective dedicated to building ultra-low-latency, resilient, and hardware-efficient distributed systems. We bridge the gap between mechanical sympathy and developer ergonomics—leveraging modern systems languages (Rust, Go) to craft infrastructure capable of processing hundreds of thousands of operations per second with microsecond tail latencies.
We believe in open infrastructure and building software with zero vendor lock-in. Your sponsorship directly accelerates our open-source research, hardware benchmark infrastructure (AWS / bare-metal), and multi-platform client SDK development.
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AeroStream is an ultra-high-performance distributed event-streaming and messaging engine engineered for extreme throughput, microsecond latencies, and modern multi-cloud workloads.
┌────────────────────────┐
│ Kafka Clients │
│ (:9092 / :9093) │
└───────────┬────────────┘
│ Kafka Wire Protocol
▼
┌─────────────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────────┐
│ Go Control Plane │ │ Rust Data Plane │
│ (go-controller/) │◄─────►│ (rust-broker/) │
│ - HashiCorp Raft FSM │ gRPC │ - Shard-per-Core │
│ - Schema Registry │:8001 │ - Zero-Copy Storage │
│ - Kafka Connect 100% │ │ - Paced Page Cache │
│ - Web Console UI:9001 │ │ - Native Port :9091 │
└─────────────────────────┘ └────────────────────────┘
Built with a Dual-Engine Architecture—pairing a resilient Go-based Raft control plane with a zero-copy Rust-based shard-per-core storage and networking data plane—AeroStream delivers next-generation event streaming with Kafka wire-protocol compatibility, built-in multi-cloud tiered storage, schema governance, inline stream transforms, and an integrated Web Management Console.
| Repository | Description | Tech Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
aerostream |
Primary distributed engine, Raft consensus daemon, and zero-copy broker | Go 1.26 • Rust 1.98 • Docker |  |
aerostream-sdk |
Official client SDKs for ultra-low-latency native binary protocol (0xAE 0x01 on :9091) |
Go • Rust • Java • .NET • Node.js |  |
aerostream-ui |
Modern Web Management Console with dynamic topology, live message inspector, and lag monitoring | Angular 21 • Material • Tailwind |  |
aerostream-docs |
Official documentation portal, architecture whitepapers, LaTeX math formulas, and interactive diagrams | MkDocs Material • MathJax |  |
aerostream-examples |
Production-ready example applications across multiple languages and frameworks | Java • Go • Rust • C# • FastAPI |  |
Measured with the Linux Foundation OpenMessaging Benchmark (OMB) framework on an AWS c6id.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 16 GiB NVMe):
- 🚀 100,000 msg/s (fixed load): 0.7 ms
$p_{50}$ • 1.4 ms$p_{99}$ • 0 errors - ⚡ 200,000 msg/s (fixed load): 0.7 ms
$p_{50}$ • 1.7 ms$p_{99}$ • 0 errors - 🏁 Peak Saturation: 271,350 msg/s (265.0 MB/s) sustained with zero record loss.
DilithiAuth is a research-grade, post-quantum Identity Provider (IdP) and OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server designed to neutralize "Harvest Now, Forge Later" (HNFL) attacks.
- Hybrid Cryptographic Signatures: Seamlessly merges classical Ed25519 with post-quantum ML-DSA-44 (NIST FIPS 204 Module-Lattice Digital Signature Algorithm).
- Solves Token Bloat: Post-quantum signatures are ~2.4 KB (vs. 64 B Ed25519). DilithiAuth solves reverse proxy header drops via the Edge Proxy Offloading Gateway, Thin JWTs with out-of-band
SigStoreverification, and compact CBOR Web Tokens (CWT). - Full OAuth 2.0 & OIDC Engine: PKCE authorization code grant, distributed key rotation (
KeyStore), authorization code deduplication (AuthzStore), and modern Developer Portal.
- Aegis: Cloud security posture management and runtime policy enforcement engine.
- Bhasa: Compiled programming language and compiler research.
- 🌐 Website: gradientgeeks.com
- 📖 Documentation Portal: aerostream.gradientgeeks.com/docs/
- 📧 Contact: contact@gradientgeeks.com
- 🤝 Governance: All contributions are welcomed under the AeroStream CLA and Apache 2.0.
