ADAM BRAZDA

Engineered as a high-concurrency messaging platform, Conclave's core is a C++20 backend. By leveraging the Linux epoll API, the server achieves O(1) event-loop complexity, effortlessly scaling across hundreds of concurrent socket connections.

To bypass the bloat of traditional JSON and WebSocket stacks, the system implements a custom binary application-layer protocol. Utilizing length-prefixed framing and fixed-width headers, this architecture entirely eliminates the 30-40% serialization overhead typical of standard web communication.

Security is enforced via a strict zero-knowledge model. A FastAPI bridge translates stateless HTTP authentication into stateful streams, while client-side AES-256-GCM ensures the server acts purely as a blind router, handling only encrypted metadata with absolute data confidentiality at the edge.