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AppBase

The next step forward for the Steem blockchain

As you might have seen, Steemit Inc announced that AppBase is ready for testing.

AppBase may not change much for block producers, but it is nonetheless an essential step on our way to the high performance of the Steem platform.

I’ve been testing AppBase for some time, and I encourage you to do the same.

With the current stable version (i.e. the non-AppBase one), even if you run your API node on a 1TB RAM monster and keep your shared memory all-in-ram, you will encounter scalability issues under a heavy load. AppBase will handle your requests in a much more efficient way.

Of course, you should know that it has not been released yet, so you shouldn’t use that on production (or at least make sure that you have fallback in case of any potential problems).

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Seed nodes

I’m trying to keep an eye on seed nodes whose “official” list is located in docs/seednodes.txt by reviewing changes to that file and updating it from time to time to include new nodes and get rid of those that fail to respond multiple times in a row over some time period.
Again, of course, seed nodes don't have to be set up for high availability, but if someone can't provide even one nine, they shouldn't waste the spot.

Steem Chat

Thank you, @riverhead, for your service. You have done an incredible job taking care of everything required to make it available to everyone for a long, long time.
Thank you, @followbtcnews, for taking over the chat.
I have done some wizardry to help set things up and move the chat to a new provider.
See you there :-)

block_log

Up-to-date blockchain data

available for download at:
https://gtg.steem.house/get/blockchain/

or if you prefer

Periodically updated, highly compressed blockchain data

available for download at:
https://gtg.steem.house/get/blockchain.xz
(compatible with parallel, indexed xz)

Steem Pressure: The series.

Two episodes mean a series, right? :-)
Here is the first one: Introducing: Steem Pressure #1
And here is the second: Steem Pressure #2 - toys for boys and girls

And many more yet to come.
Stay tuned.

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