The recent incidents on the Holesky and Sepolia networks have made me think about our current state of testnets and who is most affected by these issues. It also made me reflect on our current approaches for testing hardforks and other coordinated rollouts and where we can improve. In this…
In this post, we will look at how the Ethereum platform executes transactions. We will learn the transaction validity rules and why they exist. After that, we will deep-dive into the transaction execution and understand the steps taken by the node while processing a transaction. This post is the fourth…
Another day, another Ethereum Yellow Paper blog post! In this post, we will learn more about Gas and Payments in Ethereum. We will also brush over the economics behind Ethereum and why fees are so important in the Ethereum ecosystem. After reading this post, we will understand why transaction costs…
Hi everyone! This is another post in our series exploring the Ethereum Yellow Paper. In this post, we will learn more about the main objects in Ethereum and their role. We'll also briefly discuss how Merkle trees are used in Ethereum. I hope that after reading this post,…
Hi folks! It's been a long time without posting anything here. I don't know if you saw my last update [https://www.lucassaldanha.com/new-year-and-new-job/] but recently I joined ConsenSys [https://consensys.net] as a Blockchain Protocol Engineer. I'm new to this whole Blockchain…
Hi guys, this is just a quick update about my professional life. As you might know, two years ago I moved to New Zealand and started working at Eroad [http://www.eroad.co.nz]. I've met great people there and had a really good time. A few months…
Spring Boot [https://spring.io/blog/2013/08/06/spring-boot-simplifying-spring-for-everyone] is an awesome project that aims to make it easy creating production ready spring powered applications, bringing a convention over configuration based setup. It makes it easier to start a project with a default setup that can be customised as…
Introduction In this post I'd like to introduce some basic details about ElasticSearch [https://www.elastic.co]. I've been following the development of ES since 2011, when the company I used to work for was migrating from Solr to ES. In the last year I stopped…