vac:dst:status:2025q1-status-go-evaluation
Description
Test Status-go on each new version or requested feature and look for regressions, learn scaling properties and run scaling studies, understand the limits of Status-go and its behaviour. Deliver reports and actionable insights. Do this monthly, reliably, with documentation of findings.
Background
We want to learn specific, actionable information about Status-go’s behaviour and how it is evolving over time with each new release and with each thing we are specifically asked to check and test.
We will use a combination of real world testing, theoretical analysis and simulation to determine and measure the success, side effects and other factors of Status-go and its evolution.
Narratives
We will support the Conduit of Expertise narrative directly by analysing and evaluating new Status-go releases and their features, both with regards to features they have today and with regards to how that compares to past behaviour.
Additionally, these efforts will contribute to the Premier Research destination narrative by improving and strengthening our relationship with the Status-go team and thus increasing the reach and influence of the IFT, and improving the chances that we successfully grow our ecosystem’s products and collaborations and especially those we want to work with externally.
Task list
Status-backend baseline
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:status:2025q1-status-go-evaluation:status-backend-baseline - owner: Wings
- status: 100%
- start-date: 2025/02/06
- end-date: 2025/02/11
Description
Use status-backend in a Kubernetes deployment. Detect if it can run normally, similarly to nWaku deployments. Document what utilities provide to work with, and detect missing or nice-to-have ones. Report differences with nWaku.
Deliverables
- Reports:
- Related PRs if apply:
Status-backend subscription performance
Note: This task was a handover
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:status:2025q1-status-go-evaluation:subscription-performance - owner: Alberto
- status: 100%
- start-date: 2025/02/17
- end-date: 2025/03/28
Description
Goal: measure time to readiness to receive live messages.
Setup:
- 10 relay nodes
- including 1 publisher node
- 5 service nodes
- We may want to play with relay/service node ratios
- service nodes may not be strictly needed
- 500 light nodes
- One community setup
- All relay and light nodes have joined the community
Test:
- Relay and service nodes are running
- 1 relay node is injecting messages
- Start light nodes
- Measure time from start to time messages are being received on filter
- for example, looking at the earliest timestamp of the first message received
Deliverables
Status-backend store performance
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:status:2025q2-status-go-evaluation:store-performance - owner: Alberto
- status: 0%
- start-date: 2025/03/19
- end-date: 2025/03/31
Description
- 1 publisher node (relay or light, doesn’t matter)
- 1-2 service nodes
- 200 light nodes
- 200 relay nodes
- One community setup
- All relay and light nodes have joined the community
Test:
- Only publisher and service nodes are up
- publisher node publishes messages (they get stored in store), then stops
- light and relay nodes go online
- They automatically perform store queries
- Measure time from start to time they get first query
- Measure on wire store query performance
Deliverables
Regression testing (recurring)
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:status:2025q1-status-go-evaluation:regression-testing - owner: Wings
- status: Recurring
- start-date: 2025/01/01
- end-date: 2025/03/31
Description
Run different scenarios and collect evidence and data of Status-go’s behaviour.
Test for known regressions that have occurred in the past and ensure they don’t happen again.
Deliverables
- Reports:
- Notion report: Report
- Related PRs if apply:
- Repository: Github repo