The developers on the blockchain have been hard at work. It is often difficult to sit on the outside without any news. Many on here, including myself, complain about the lack of communication from the development team. Nevertheless, what they lack in communication skills they make up for with their programming skills.
We tend to often want to put the proverbial cart before the horse. Almost daily we talk about marketing, user names and increasing the people on this blockchain. This is an important part of the process yet the biggest thing is to be able to handle the traffic. Personally, I am guilty of believing that since we have one of the fastest blockchains, all is set. That is not the case.
One of the issues they were tending to the last few months is that of scaling. That is something we see referred to with the Bitcoin blockchain since it is rather slow, especially when compared to STEEM. Yet it is an important factor when looking at the potential traffic that will arrive here. Of course, this is all back end stuff meaning that most of us non techie people miss it.
One of the biggest developments is that AppBase is ready which they would like everyone's help in testing.
What is AppBase?
AppBase is the first step in creating a multi-chain FABRIC. AppBase enables many components of the Steem blockchain to become modular by creating additional non-consensus blockchains as dedicated plugins. These plugins can be updated much more rapidly because they do not require replaying the entire blockchain.
Now comes the fun part. The development team needs everyone to help testing this out.
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The rest of the article is directed at developers so I won't go into that.
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This is wonderful news. Actually, hearing anything out of the development team is outstanding. Nevertheless, this goes to show that pricing action does not tell the real story. While cryptocurrencies were behaving like a superball bouncing off a cliff, the development team was hard at work. It is comforting to know they realize what steps need to be taken to ensure this blockchain is one of the leading blockchains. Scaling the blockchain is crucial if we ever want to experience the growth many of us feel is possible.
I know I am guilty of getting impatient at times. That said, we need to remember that are a lot of highly-talented developers all over the STEEM ecosystem. They know what they are doing and want to make sure all works well before introducing it. AppBase is the first of many moves we will most likely see in the next couple months which moves us towards the completion of a number of additions that were mentioned last year (HF 20, Communities).
Some of the steps they were looking at taking were spelled out in this post...https://steemit.com/steemitdev/@steemitdev/steem-blockchain-update-august-2017
Part of the exponential growth we discuss on here applies to the back end of the house too. The development team making strides to upgrading the blockchain will only serve all of us down the road.
Good times are a-comin'.
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