Firedancer w/ Kevin Bowers

In this episode, Austin visits Jump Crypto's office in Chicago (The Pit) to talk about Firedancer, Solana's second independent validator client. They discuss its roadmap, its rollout, and the ways in which it will optimize and improve upon the architecture of Solana's existing client. Kevin elaborates on his unconventional views on programming languages, scaling solutions, data flow optimization, and much more.

0:00 - Firedancer rollout and roadmap
3:50 - Performance increases moving from Frankendancer to Firedancer
6:20 - Kevin and his team's view on networking stacks
9:30 - How Firedancer improves upon inefficiencies in Solana's existing client
14:08 - Are Kevin's paradigms compatible with configuration differences in decentralized systems?
20:30 - The importance of locality in Firedancer and Kevin's worldview
30:24 - Long-term vision for tile architecture
38:15 - Frankendancer's transition to mainnet
42:18 - Will the existing Agave client be a limiting scale factor?
47:48 - Status of Firedancer
50:32 - Aspects of building Firedancer that surprised Kevin
53:50 - Kevin's views on the social and philosophical sides of crypto

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