2023-08-31 Codex weekly

Codex Update August 21-31

Client

Milestone: Block Merkelization

• Storing and retrieving data using merkle trees
• Coders for merkle trees
• Refine merkle tree construction

Milestone: Block Exchange protocol refinements and simulations

• Tracker simulation implementation
• Block exchange protocol thoughts
  • https://hackmd.io/ydT3AiliS8q2vdixBUXvCQ
• Follow swarmsim repo for updates

Milestone: Async Disc Access & Threading support

• Tests on sharing thread data with refc
• errorVariable and thread safety
  • Fix error binding in without statement on multiple threads
• WIP: Prototype proxy IO threadpool

Milestone: Client stability and debugging

• Major effort to stabilize the Codex client through continuous automated testing
  • Start discovery after announce address is updated
  • Start discovery after announce address is updated
  • Retrieve empty blocks

Infra

Milestone: Monitoring and Metrics

• Install Node exporter and Prometheus in Dist-Tests cluster
• Grafana Dashboard updates
• Automated metrics scraping