Theme: Quantify Hydra’s Performance Contribution

[yiannisbot]

ETA: 2022-12-31

Description: Hydras were deployed in the IPFS network at a time when the network was much more unstable and before the Content Routing v0.5 upgrade. It has not been investigated whether and to which extent Hydras, which also incur a substantial monetary cost, are still useful today and what performance improvement they’re providing. With this milestone we aim to quantify the performance improvement brought by Hydras and have a solid justification and recommendation for whether Hydras are needed in the IPFS network. More details can be found in this Notion page: Hydras: Reliability and Effectiveness

[yiannisbot]

Final project report: https://github.com/protocol/network-measurements/blob/master/results/rfm21-hydras-performance-contribution.md

Some additional results have been reported in the discussion forum thread: https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/dht-hydra-peers-dialling-down-non-bridging-functionality-on-2022-12-01/15567/4.

The project document with more details and the tasks that have been completed can be found here: https://pl-strflt.notion.site/Hydras-Reliability-and-Effectiveness-7aa5088070794bd795780b74533bd6b2

@dennis-tra please add more links if needed. I think this can be closed now? 🚀 Do we expect any other task to be finalised?

[dennis-tra]

I think these are the relevant links and also think that this can be closed now! Thanks for gathering the links 👍 :)