The Serialization Singularity

1.0 Signal Propagation

In distributed systems, the speed of light is a hard constraint. While the theoretical limit (c) is ~299,792 km/s, light slows down when passing through a medium. This refractive index creates a permanent arbitrage opportunity based on physical proximity and medium selection.

Traditional cloud infrastructure relies on Standard Fiber (SMF-28), which has a refractive index of n ≈ 1.468. This effectively slows light to 68% of its vacuum speed. We call this the "Glass Tax"-a ~32% latency penalty paid on every packet, regardless of network congestion.

To achieve ballistically sovereign execution, we optimize for Microwave/Vacuum pathways (~99.7% c) and co-location, removing the medium as the primary bottleneck.

1.1 The Serialization Singularity

Data transmission is fast. Data parsing is slow. The industry standard for API communication-JSON over REST-introduces a massive, hidden efficiency tax. Current HFT infrastructure often spends more time reading the order than executing it.

"87% of latency in modern APIs is simply the CPU parsing text to binary."

We benchmarked the cost of this "Serialization Tax" against Zero-Copy memory access (rkyv). By reading directly from mapped memory, we achieve the "Serialization Singularity"-where the cost of accessing data is effectively zero.

2.0 Stochastic Jitter

Average latency is a vanity metric. Variance is the killer. In a standard Linux kernel, interrupts and context switches introduce non-deterministic "noise" (The Von Neumann Bottleneck).

When your code shares a kernel with other processes, it must wait its turn. These context switches cost microseconds. Our Unikernel architecture removes the scheduler entirely.

3.0 Cryptographic Overhead

Where do your keys live? If they live in a Hardware Security Module (HSM) accessed over the network (like AWS KMS), you are bound by Network RTT (~160ms). If they live in Multi-Party Computation (MPC) shards, you are bound by mathematical complexity (~300ms).

ZeroCopy Systems places the key inside the execution environment (Nitro Enclave). Access is via the local PCIe bus. Latency drops from 160ms to < 0.05ms.