Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-08-30
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Brief Summary
- We can now replay entire Mainnet history in ~3 days on a single thread;
- We have NEAR Sharded Mainnet AMA for validators on Sept 23rd;
- nearcore 1.21.0-rc.1 was released and deployed on Testnet on 2021-08-18;
- nearcore 1.21.0 Mainnet release is planned for 2021-09-06. Monitor this thread for how to update indexer;
- We proposed Indexer-as-a-Service concept;
- MetaBuidl hackathon has begun;
Results
- Node Experience team added a fuzzer for runtime. Contract Runtime team rejoiced!
- Node Experience is going to do releases through team rotation;
- Core team made steps towards storing RuntimeConfig in a cleaner way, this will allow us to iterate on fees faster;
- Core team merged tests for ecrecover. This is important for Aurora;
- Contract Runtime exposed breakdown of gas usage for contracts through JSON RPC. This is very important to for better contract development DevX. Developer Platform team will incorporate it in their dev-tools;
- Contract Runtime is working on the new design of param estimator. Contribute your thoughts if you care;
- Node Interfaces added an exhaustive documentation on JSON RPC errors;
- Node Interfaces have updated the validators dashboard;
- Developer Platform released runner-js v0.5.2;
- Developer Platform did lots of clean-up work in preparation to the hackathon;
Challenges and Blockers
- Node Interfaces is blocked on Indexer-as-a-Service, please comment!
- Param estimator is still blocking lots of work on the fees, but fortunately @matklad is rewriting it together with @Longarithm ;
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