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Tutorial: Building a Browser Extension With Irmin
Irmin is a collection of OCaml libraries that makes it easy to build applications with Git-like data stores. We recently released irmin-client and irmin-server as official Irmin packages. These packages open up a new way to use Irmin by implementing a custom protocol that lets you write a client app…
Optimising Archive Node Storage for Tezos
For the past few years, Tarides has been responsible for the storage component of Tezos, from L1 and L2 shells up to the Tezos protocol. In 2022, our main focus was on improving storage performance and UX for running nodes and bakers. Our efforts resulted in significant improvements, including reduc…
Towards Minimal Disk-Usage for Tezos Bakers
Over the last few months, Tarides has focused on designing, prototyping, and integrating a new feature for Tezos bakers: automatic context pruning for rolling and full nodes. This feature will allow bakers to run Tezos with minimal disk usage while continuing to enjoy 12x more responsive operations.…
Adding Merkle Proofs to Tezos
The Upcoming Tezos Jakarta Protocol will support compact Merkle proofs to scale the network's trust infrastructure. This allows nodes that do not trust each other to agree on the validity of Tezos transactions with orders of magnitude smaller storage requirements. For instance, the block 2,400,319, …
Lightning Fast with Irmin: Tezos Storage is 6x faster with 1000 TPS surpassed
Over the last year, the Tarides storage team has been focused on scaling the storage layer of Octez, the most popular node implementation for the Tezos blockchain. With the upcoming release of Octez v13, we are reaching our performance goal of supporting one thousand transactions per second (TPS) in…
Irmin: September 2020 update
This post will survey the latest design decisions and performance improvements made to irmin-pack, the Irmin storage backend used by Tezos. Tezos is an open-source blockchain technology, written in OCaml, which uses many libraries from the MirageOS ecosystem. For more context on the design of irmin-…
