Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-10-11

[nearmax]

Brief Summary

• Three people from Core team are attending ICPC world finals this week;
• Core team merged a PR that prepares the transition between the last non-sharded block and the first sharded block. Exciting!
• Testnet 1.22.0 release is coming on Oct 18;

New Joiners

• John Smith became NEAR Inc CISO;
• Marcin Michalski joined the Core team;
• Yordan Madzhunkov also joined the Core team;
• Andy Haynes joined the Wallet team;
• Michael Peter joined the Developer Platform team;
• Marcelo Diop-Gonzalez joined the Node Experience team;

Results

• Core team merged lots of PRs for network, while includes parallelization, de-duplication of messages, and cleanup PRs;
• Core team prepared code for the last block before shard layout kicks-off;
• Node Experience load tested one shard with skyward contracts;
• Developer Platform is testing AVA for JS testing framework. It should give 2x faster tests;
• Developer Platform finished discussing design of identity provider for DevConsole. Join this and other discussions if you have opinion on DevConsole!
• Noded Interfaces is about to publish near-jsonrpc-client-rs on crates.io;

Challenges and Blockers

• DevRel is blocked by DevPlatform on reviewing a PR to change NFTs;
• Someone grabbed near names on crates.io

Full Reports

• Node Interfaces;
• Developer Platform;
• Node Experience;
• Core
• Developer Relations;