Marlin Dev & Community Updates – September 2019

September 22, 2019 | Contributor

Hey Everyone,

Welcome to the first installment (of many) on our community updates where we’ll keep you posted on the latest happenings from our end – both on the technical and community related stuff. If there’s anything specific that you’d like covered, let me know by reaching out directly on Telegram!

Engineering Updates

We’re keeping things pretty brief over here.

# net.cpp
- Unsafe buffer read/write functions for better optimizations
- Build system improvements - auto download missing dependencies, modern CMake

# beacon.cpp
- Build system improvements - auto download missing dependencies, modern CMake

# stream.cpp
- Build system improvements - auto download missing dependencies, modern CMake

# lpf.cpp
- Created
- Store-and-forward buffering
- Message boundaries based on length prefix
- Build system improvements - auto download missing dependencies, modern CMake

# pubsub.cpp
- Peer selection framework
- Build system improvements - auto download missing dependencies, modern CMake

# relay.cpp
- Preliminary peer selection
- Peer selection improvements

# Devops/Testing
- Terraform scripts for provisioning on AWS
- Ansible scripts for deployments
- Monitoring integration using ELK stack
- Ethereum Rinkeby/Ropstein testnets

# Docs/Specs
- Concepts
- Discovery
- Pubsub

Things you might have missed

Announcing our $3 million seed round
Recap of Invest: Asia 2019 Singapore

Recent Events

Events are a way of getting the word out about Marlin, sharing what we’ve been up to and connecting with like-minded people in the community. We had a few of these lined up in Bengaluru and Delhi.