While building your Steem blockchain dApp, you will soon realize that it’s not that easy to get the data you are looking for quickly, unless there’s already an API that gives you what you need. We have

The date of the next, 21st HardFork, has been set, and it is approaching quickly. There's plenty of info around the web on how to build a Steem node from scratch. I also wrote a guide some time ago: Steem

MIRA has recently become the most famous ETLA on STEEM. But what exactly is MIRA and what does it do? Let’s take a look at MIRA performance-wise. created for Steem Pressure series. MIRA (Multi Index RocksDB

Run, boy, run! They’re trying to catch you. In the previous episode of the Steem Pressure series, we checked how much time we needed to get a fully functional steem consensus node from scratch. We also

From zero to hero How long does it take to go from 0 to 20,000,000? Let's check how fast we can resync and replay, because that shows how fast our system can reach the head block. Of course, that’s not

A long time ago, in a block far, far away… No, wait, this is NOT the story you are looking for ;-) This year, I started writing “Steem Pressure,” which is a series of posts aimed at showing you how steemd

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about your first Steem Node but were afraid to ask. Our goal for today We will set up the system, build steemd manually, configure a simple Steem seed node, run

So you want to play with Steem? Let's prepare a proper environment for our playground. First, the hardware. If you’ve read the previous episode of Steem Pressure, you know that Steem is growing (and that’s

Have you ever wondered how Steem works? How does it behave in different environments? What equipment is used to keep it running? How important is fast local storage? How much RAM is enough? More cores