Grant Recipient Interview 2: Karol Skocik
aeternity foundation grant awardee Karol Skocik talks about his work with æternity.
Karol is an experienced blockchain programmer and is currently working on the Garbage Collection of account state nodes on æternity.
In this interview, aeternity foundation’s Development and Technical Marketing Manager Pegah Ghojavand talks to software engineer Karol Skocik about his background, as well as the progression of his work with æternity blockchain.
“Sooner or later, every blockchain software hits a point where the size of the DB (database) becomes an issue to look into,” Karol Skocik says in a forum post.
The Garbage Collector aims to provide users the option not to store the entire blockchain data, as opposed to allocating significant bandwidth and gigabytes of data space to the entire history of the blockchain — which is not required if all the user needs is account balance history.
Watch Pegah Ghojavand’s conversation with Karol here.
Karol’s work on the Garbage Collector for æternity continues, extending to focus on the following:
- Testing features and gathering feedback from other developers for fine-tuning the Garbage Collector
- Finding ways to run parts of the code base on a browser via Rust/Lumen project
For more information on the Garbage Collector, you may view the paper Karol published on Github.
