Recently, Solana Network went live after two attempts to restart after overcoming an outage, receiving outrage from the community. Outages have been a major problem and inconvenience for Solana network operators.
Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko issues the plans to tackle the balance between reliability and building a scalable yet fast network.
Yakovenko stated, “The issues around last week’s 1.14 network update – which focused on improvements for speed and scale – made it clear how maintaining stability during these major updates remains a challenge.”
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With the recent upgrade, core engineers intend to improve the software release rollout process by bringing in external developers and auditors to test and uncover exploits.
Core engineers intend to help enhance the process by downgrading the testnet to the current mainnet-beta version and feature set and upgrading the testnet to the new version’s release candidate.
Around a third of the Solana Labs core engineering team has also formed an opposing team to provide more hooks and instrumentation to the validator code to assist in uncovering the exploits.
The network has also been improved by Solana Labs and outside core technical teams, and they will keep doing so with an emphasis on reliability.
The team will work hard to make the restart procedure smoother. In addition, the Firedancer team at Jump Crypto is working on a second validator client to boost the “network’s throughput, efficiency, and resiliency.”
“Core engineers are committed to making these changes so that reliability does not suffer for the sake of innovation and speed. The community’s input and support are invaluable and help the network get closer to a more decentralized future,” the Solana co-founder stated.
