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CASE STUDY // 02Distributed Systems & Telemetry

Synapse Mesh

High-throughput global telemetry bus, WebSocket event mesh, and edge failover visualizer.

A distributed network telemetry mesh engineered to stream real-time packet trajectories across geo-distributed edge clusters in Tokyo, Frankfurt, London, and San Francisco. Features automatic fault injection, dynamic edge rerouting, and sub-millisecond failover handling.

ROLE
Distributed Systems Engineer
TIMELINE
2025 — Present
DOMAIN
Developed to provide high-concurrency real-time observability across geo-distributed microservice clusters with zero telemetry lag and sub-second anomaly detection.
ACCENT
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Interactive Telemetry StageLIVE CONSOLE
MESH STATE: OPTIMAL
THROUGHPUT: 18,420 MSG/SSLA: 99.99%
US-WEST (SFO)San Francisco
LATENCY: 42msLOAD: 68%
EU-WEST (LHR)London
LATENCY: 14msLOAD: 74%
EU-CENTRAL (FRA)Frankfurt
LATENCY: 18msLOAD: 82%
AP-EAST (TYO)Tokyo
LATENCY: 98msLOAD: 56%
CLICK ANY NODE TO TRIGGER SYNTHETIC FAILURE & TEST DYNAMIC REROUTING
SYSTEM BENCHMARKS

Verified Production Metrics

18.4K msg/s
Throughput
< 18ms
Failover Time
42.0ms
Mean Latency
99.99%
Network Uptime
THE CHALLENGE

Problem Statement

Large-scale distributed systems lack immediate, intuitive spatial visualization of edge node failures, causing delayed incident response and prolonged downtime during regional ISP outages.

THE ARCHITECTURE

Architectural Solution

Engineered an autonomous heartbeat consensus protocol over lightweight binary WebSockets with distributed Redis streams, visualizing traffic shifts and circuit-breaker triggers in real time.

ENGINEERING TRADEOFFS

Critical Technical Decisions

DECISION 01

Binary WebSocket Payloads with Protobuf

Reduced payload transmission overhead by 68% compared to JSON, enabling high-frequency telemetry frames at 60 FPS.

DECISION 02

Gossip-Based Heartbeat Consensus

Enabled decentralized edge health detection without depending on a single central controller point of failure.

CORE DELIVERABLES

Capabilities & Feature Matrix

Global edge topology map rendering real-time packet transmissions across trans-oceanic cables.

Live chaos engineering fault injection: kill any regional node and observe automatic failover in < 20ms.

Streaming packet latency histograms and jitter distribution graphs with percentile metrics.

Low-overhead binary WebSocket serialization achieving 18,000+ messages per second per worker.

Zero-downtime cluster topology rebalancing with verified 99.99% operational SLA.

IMPLEMENTED TECHNOLOGIES

Technology Stack

Node.jsTypeScriptWebSocketRedis StreamsDocker

Explore Source Code & Implementation

Inspect commit logs, architecture schemas, and pull requests on GitHub.