System Architecture
Under the hood of Selixes: deep dive into the proxy pipeline, transaction telemetry, Redis token-locked budget gates, and edge continuity routing.
🔍 Dynamic Proxy Pipeline Overview
Selixes is containerized to deploy directly inside your secure cloud boundary (VPC) or local developer machine. It functions as an HTTP reverse-proxy layer sitting between your client application code and upstream model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini).
When your SDK dispatches a prompt, Selixes intercepts the request socket, parses custom budget controls in the headers, checks active session caches, and coordinates connections. The transit latency overhead introduced by this middleware is under 15 milliseconds.
🧬 Execution Flow & Telemetry
Below is the lifecycle of an AI completion request routing through the sovereign gateway proxy:
💾 Telemetry Storage Primitives (Postgres + Redis)
To enforce session budget limits concurrently across multiple parallel agent worker nodes, Selixes implements a dual-database architecture:
- Redis Cache Layer: Stores transient session keys, active concurrency counts, and sliding-window rate limit counters. When a request comes in, Redis decrements limits in under 1ms. If limits are breached, it returns HTTP 429 immediately without initiating external connections.
- Postgres Analytics Ingest: Stores detailed transaction traces, prompt token counts, cost allocations, and failover latency histories. These telemetry traces power the observability dashboards and compile weekly resiliency reports.
🔌 Edge Sandboxing & Ollama Backups
In high-security enterprise environments or during catastrophic cloud failures, external connection calls can fail. To counter this, Selixes contains an integrated **Zero-Cost Continuity Engine**.
If all cloud endpoints timeout or fail authentication, the gateway redirects socket flows to your local edge network. It boots a sandboxed local-model container (standardizing on Llama-3 via Ollama) running on your VPC hardware metal, ensuring absolute operational survival with zero data leaks outside the boundary.
📐 Operational Benchmarks
| Benchmark Metric | Value | Impact / Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Middleware Latency | < 15ms | Minimal transit delay added by header parsing and session token lookups. |
| Failover Switch Time | < 20ms | Autonomic swap from offline primary provider to standby endpoints. |
| Redis Query Cost | < 1.2ms | High-throughput sliding cost check before admitting prompt tokens. |
| Memory Footprint | 180 MB | Docker container footprint under idle conditions, optimized for edge nodes. |
| Supported Throughput | 12,500 req/sec | Sustained proxy completions per instance with active socket pooling. |
Next Up: API Specifications
Review custom headers, payload structures, and response schemas.