Jan 15, 2020 | Blockchain, Distributed Systems
Whiteblock Genesis Goes Live We’re excited to share that our distributed systems testing and development platform is now live and free to use. With the help of the open source community, we’ve created a product that allows anyone to create a testnet and run a variety... 
Jan 10, 2020 | Blockchain, Distributed Systems
This article was a collaboration between Antoine and Kevin. Photo by Hidde Schalm on Unsplash. Define Sidecar Distributed systems require careful attention to overall architectures. Fortunately, there are popular design patterns that can be followed so that we don’t... 
Dec 20, 2019 | Blockchain, Distributed Systems
This article was a collaboration between Antoine and Kevin. Photo by Nyana Stoica on Unsplash. In this post, we’ll discuss byte serialization in blockchains, why it matters, as well as how different chains approach it, including: Ethereum 1x Ethereum 2.0 Bitcoin... 
Dec 11, 2019 | Distributed Systems
In this blog post, I’d like to introduce you to an evening ramble with Dean Eigenmann called No-Tag-Back Gossiping, or NTB-G. This post came about as we worked through ideas to make gossiping more reliable. Make sure to read the spec first, as it clearly lays out the... 
Nov 25, 2019 | Blockchain, Distributed Systems
This article was a collaboration between Antoine and Kevin. Definition of high availability High availability can be achieved when systems are equipped to operate continuously without failure for a long duration of time. The phrase suggests that parts of a system have... 
Oct 24, 2019 | Blockchain, Distributed Systems
While the concept of sharding as a scaling solution has been a hot topic in the Ethereum community for a while now, it’s important to understand that this sort of database architecture isn’t specific to blockchain technology. Computer nerds haven’t shut up about this...
