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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…
Engineer Spotlight: Zach Shipko
Tarides engineer Zach Shipko answers a few questions about why he decided to learn OCaml and why he's particularly excited about the OCaml 5 release. In celebration of OCaml 5, we've interviewed several engineers about their personal experience with the language and what features they enjoy. It's a …
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Senior Software Engineer
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.…
Irmin in the Browser
Introduction Over the past six months, I have been working on using Irmin in the browser, including irmin-server and the GraphQL interface. This has been fun and a great learning journey for me. Before this internship, irmin-server was primarily a Unix-based application. My project was to port irmin…
Intern Software Engineer
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…
The New Replaying Benchmark in Irmin
As mentioned in our Tezos Storage / Irmin Summer 2021 Update on the Tezos Agora forum, the Irmin team's goal has been to improve Irmin's performance in order to speed up the Baking Account migration process in Octez, and we managed to make it 10x faster in the first quarter of 2021. Since then, we'v…
Senior Software Engineer
Announcing Tezos’ 8th protocol upgrade proposal: Hangzhou
The last upgrade of the Tezos protocol, Granada, activated on August 6th, 2021. We are now glad to announce a new protocol proposal, Hangzhou, the result of a collaborative work from various teams. This is a joint post with Nomadic Labs, Marigold, Oxhead Alpha and DaiLambda. …
Florence and beyond: the future of Tezos storage
In collaboration with Nomadic Labs, Marigold and DaiLambda, we're happy to announce the completion of the next Tezos protocol proposal: Florence. Tezos is an open-source decentralised blockchain network providing a platform for smart contracts and digital assets. A crucial feature of Tezos is self-a…
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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-…
Introducing irmin-pack
irmin-pack is an Irmin storage backend that we developed over the last year specifically to meet the Tezos use-case. Tezos nodes were initially using an LMDB-based backend for their storage, which after only a year of activity led to 250 GB disk space usage, with a monthly growth of 25 GB. Our goal …
Senior Software Engineer
Introducing the GraphQL API for Irmin 2.0
With the release of Irmin 2.0.0, we are happy to announce a new package - irmin-graphql, which can be used to serve data from Irmin over HTTP. This blog post will give you some examples to help you get started, there is also a section in the irmin-tutorial with similar information. To avoid writing …
Irmin v2
We are pleased to announce Irmin 2.0.0, a major release of the Git-like distributed branching and storage substrate that underpins MirageOS. We began the release process for all the components that make up Irmin back in May 2019, and there have been close to 1000 commits since Irmin 1.4.0 released …
On the road to Irmin v2
Over the past few months, we have been heavily engaged in release engineering the Irmin 2.0 release, which covers multiple years of work on all of its constituent elements. We first began Irmin in late 2013 to act as a Git-like distributed and branchable storage substrate that would let us escape th…
Irmin usability enhancements
Zach Shipko is working on improving the UI/UX for Irmin. He is looking for feedback to make Irmin more accessible to potential users and clean up the rough edges for existing users. …
Senior Software Engineer
HotPOST'18
Anil Madhavapeddy and Gemma Gordon presented our new operating system for connected buildings: OSMOSE to HotPOST’18. OSMOSE is based on MirageOS and Irmin and we hope to explore that area more in the coming months! …
An Architecture for Interspatial Communication
Position paper on “An Architecture for Interspatial Communication” accepted to HotPOST’18. …
