High level summary
- Benchmarking: Started release benchmarks for Node
10.0. - Development: Governance action workload - alternative tx submission method built, passes tests.
- Tracing: Preparing the bump to
typed-protocols-0.3.
Low level overview
Benchmarking
We've started the benchmarking process for the freshly tagged, fully Chang 2 capable Node version 10.0 pre-release.
Development
Calibrating a governance action / voting workload within our submission service tx-generator is
more involved than anticipated.
As measurements for performance impact of voting are required very shortly, we have - in parallel - created a
nix / bash based solution. That one uses cardano-cli for creating and submitting proposals and voting transactions, while the generator can run any other known workload simultaneously. Thus, we expect to get a clear performance delta between voting vs. no voting going on. This setup has already been deployed, and is
passing testing - soon to be used for the first real-world voting benchmarks.
The implementation however is less flexible, much less parametrizable, and in its design
tied to the very specific, fixed topology of the Nomad cluster. The workload definition inside
tx-generator will thus continue, and eventually be used as the standard for benchmarks targeting voting / governance.
Tracing
The new tracing system, more specifically, the components that forward metrics and traces to cardano-tracer,
contain well-defined peers in the sense of the typed-protocols package. The upcoming bump to recently
released version 0.3 contains breaking changes in the package API. We've begun necessary downstream adjustments in our packages, re-defining aforementioned peers using the new API.