Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-10-04
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Brief Summary
- This and last week we’ve been working on setting Q4 OKRs so most of the updates are missing;
- Join the discussion on NFT metadata standard;
- We now have new hardware requirements for the nodes;
- Next Testnet release is on Monday, Oct 18;
- Check out Validator AMA on Sharded Mainnet;
- Check out first chapters of Zero-to-Hero tutorial for Rust SDK;
- We lowered ecrecover cost from 1.12Tgas to 0.09Tgas;
- Wasmer 2 is rolled out under a protocol feature!
- Near Explorer Selector now shows circulating supply stats;
Results
- Node Experience have tested 4 shards with 8 cores, it looks good so far, but more investigation is required;
- Node Experience experimented with running node with googleperftools;
- Node Experience added instructions on running node in nightly mode;
- Core team merged many PRs needed for sharding: separated block catchup into a separate thread, application of block updates to split shards, change layout of outgoing receipts
- Core team merged new algorithm for routing table exchange;
- Developer Platform migrated runner-js from Jest to AVA;
- Contract Runtime team is improving param estimator which allows to significantly reduce the fees;
- Contract Runtime team merged Wasmer 2 support into master, added gas counter support for it, and replayed the transaction history!
- No more empty charts in Explorer with new stats backend!
- Node Interfaces landed 11 PRs for near-jsonrpc-client-rs;
- @miraclx talked at NEAR Hacknode in Kano;
Challenges and Blockers
- DevRel is blocked by DevPlatform team on fixing NFT example, they need near-sdk-rs PR to be approved. CC @austinabell ;
- Node Experience noticed weird performance behavior with account creation that they are currently investigating;
- Deciding function call fees is hard. @Longarithm will go with a temporary solution for now;
- Indexer needs new approach to storage since it has grown a lot. We are discussing various approaches;
- Node Interfaces are blocked on standardization of FTs and NFTs;
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