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The latest network stress test put serious pressure on our BoN infrastructure, especially on the gateway-facing observers and the indexers. A few important details on the current setup: - one observer per shard behind the gateway - well below spec for sustained stress testing; on mainnet we use multiple observers per shard for load balancing - a single indexing cluster accessed by all services - on mainnet, different services use different clusters - a single observer per shard (one squad), with notifier, serving internal services - on mainnet we run multiple squads, and these roles are split across different machines. Regular API requests and VM queries are also served by different machine types there We also found a misconfiguration on BoN for VM queries. Under stress, it led to request buildup and out-of-memory issues, which affected both the API and the gateway. We are fixing this. Over the last two days of testing, we also uncovered optimizations needed for Supernova when the network is hit with very high transaction volume continuously over long periods. These issues only surface under sustained heavy load. The optimization has already been prepared and tested internally, and we will likely deploy it on BoN as well. One clear lesson: running stress tests like this while also keeping infra costs low is a challenge on its own. That said, the network is still up and running, and more optimizations are on the way to improve behavior under heavy load. And finally, a big thank you to everyone involved - these findings were possible because of your efforts.

I never thought I’d be able to create something like this. Lacking the right skills and knowing I wasn't built for this kind of work always held me back, but with all these new technologies, it’s suddenly so much easier to bring your vision and thoughts to life.🙌 0 dev skills, if I can do it, anyone can do it! Nothing is impossible, and things are just getting easier and easier as far as I see. We have the chance to tell our stories so much easier now and I’m going to tell my son's and mine. My motivation is to have more time, for my son, for myself, for the people who have stood by me, stand by me now, and will stand by me in the future, and also for the people we will be there for. Never give up!✌️

UBI is for pussies and slaves. They are privatizing and repurposing all of human achievement for themselves and calling it training data or “The Corpus”. Get up. And fight. Dammit. Accept UBI and you enter that underclass, so grateful for the stolen morsel you were returned.