2021-08-25 Node Experience Team Update #89

janewang · 2021-08-25T18:23:05Z

janewang
Aug 25, 2021

@posvyatokum has created a runtime fuzzer PR (Runtime fuzzer nearcore#4546) for fuzzing the entire runtime Fuzzing the entire runtime nearcore#4374
@nikurt made a tool for replaying chain history: it will take ~3 days to replay mainnet history with the current implementation, single-threaded. Tool to replay the chain history nearcore#4597
@nikurt closed issue nearcore#4597 again. This time, he has verified with rust-analyzer that no circular dependencies remain. Tool to replay the chain history nearcore#4597
@janewang has aligned with stakeholders on release communication for internal and external stakeholders.
@janewang has collaborated with Ross and Jake to build a Validator AMA landing page to market the upcoming Validator AMA on sharded mainnet, planned for September 23rd, 5 PM GMT: https://nearama.com/.

@posvyatokum is working to run runtime fuzzer on CI. Now can run fuzzing on Nayduck, and is currently working on easily obtaining failed scenario JSON from failed runs. Run runtime fuzzer on CI nearcore#4550
@mina86 is working on moving NayDuck to GCP. He has already added support for Cloud Storage (Rework GitHub OAuth flow Near-One/nayduck#17), and is at the moment setting up SQL server. Migrate to GCP Near-One/nayduck#16
@nikurt added transactions of many action types to the loadtest (https://github.com/near/near-ops/pull/592) for load testing betanet near/near-ops#556
@nikurt added a metric for chunk gas usage: Add a metric for the average amount of Tgas burned in chunks nearcore#4728
@nikurt has started a nearcore release rotation schedule
@nikurt is slowly learning about mocknet to understand the bigger picture before using mocknet for Understand the hardware requirements for simple nightshade block producers nearcore#4561.
@janewang is collaborating with Ross on logistics of the upcoming Validator AMA.
@janewang is working on a write up for Chunk-Only Producer opportunity and is collaborating with Jake on build a landing page to capture sign ups for prospective Chunk-Only Producers.
@janewang is working with the Data Guild on sourcing a list of wallets with sufficient tokens to run Chunk-Only Producers.
@janewang is pairing with Dev Platform to interview and to understand developers' requirements for RPC.