Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-12-13

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Brief Summary

• Developer Console Beta release date is on track for 12/16/2021;
• We now have an example of spooning and testing ref-finance;
• Rust CLI now supports Windows;

Progress

• State Viewer now supports InMemory and Streaming modes, which is useful for state debugging;
• Node Experience improved nearup UX;
• Node Experience prepared for StakeWars and chunk-only producers;
• Developer Console is now streaming RPC usage data to MixPanel;
• Developer added API keys documentation into first-time signups of DevConsole;
• Core Tools did cleanup of types, and dependencies for workspaces-rs;
• Core Tools are adding a more efficient implementation of TreeMap and optimized LookupSet for Rust SDK;
• Frontier Tools are expanding JS SDK to work not just PoC example;
• Frontier Tools added RPC API keys for near-api-js and near-cli-js;
• Core team improved module loading by 2x using VecAssembler;
• Core team is working on documentation for ShardLayout, EncodedChunkCache, and ShardsMaster;
• Core team is fuzzing empty block generation.

Blockers and Challenges

• Core team debugged recent OOM error on Testnet canary. I tis difficult to reproduce.
• Core team is debugging issues with the new validator selection algorithm, and the GC issues;

Full Reports

• Node Experience;
• Developer Console;
• Core Tools;
• Frontier Tools;
• Core.