‘Bitails is designed to be scalable and available even during network peaks’: Meysam Rezai
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Bitails is a blockchain explorer and API service that recently “rewrote its service from scratch” in preparation to “handle at least one billion transactions a day.” To test this new architecture, Bitails ran a couple of stress tests on the BSV blockchain network in the Fall of 2023. I caught up with one of the co-founders, Meysam Rezai, to learn more. Why did Bitails have to rewrite its service application code from scratch? Meysam Rezai: When we initially began developing the Bitails codebase, our primary objective was to launch Bitails quickly. However, we were aware that certain technologies and coding languages we were using were easy to develop but had limitations in providing the desired functionalities. Upon reaching a stable version of Bitails, we took a step back, re-evaluated our design and structure, and made some adjustments to the technologies employed, aiming at creating a more scalable indexer for the BSV blockchain network. What types of transactions did Bitails broadcast to perform the stress test? Meysam Rezai: As you’re aware, we conducted two distinct stress tests. The first focused on transactions per second (TPS), utilizing basic transactions with one input and one output. During this phase, we successfully injected 450 million transactions into the BSV blockchain network over 3-4 days. Although we were planning to push 1B transactions into the BSV blockchain network in two days, but miners ignored many of our transactions, so we had to compromise on this number. The second stress test centered on evaluating the Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) set, examining both the BSV blockchain nodes and Bitails’ UTXO handler. In this scenario, transactions varied, each featuring a single input and over 200,000 outputs. The objective was to expand the UTXO set from 350 million to over 1 billion UTXOs. The results were reassuring for Bitails’ UTXO handler, yet we encountered…
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