Crowd Machine Sets the Benchmark for Decentralized Computing Performance
On 28 August Crowd Machine CEO and Founder Craig Sproule released a live demonstration to our developer community of the first super nodes on the Crowd Computer decentralized network.
Each of the four nodes achieved 80,000-120,000 transactions per second (TPS) as they were added, enough speed and scalability to run decentralized apps at real-world volumes without degrading performance.
The decentralized network demonstrated by Craig is the Crowd Computer beta version. It exists to host a zero-code development environment for designing, hosting and running decentralized apps, which integrate blockchain-based smart contracts.
Designed to run on any internet-connected device, from servers, desktop computers and laptops, to tablets and smartphones, the Crowd Computer is a compelling new technology that leverages the world’s surplus processing capacity to make and run the world’s apps.
Balancing DApp Performance and Function
The Crowd Computer distributes apps redundantly as fragments across a network of devices, which meant we had to solve the issue of app performance and scalability in a decentralized topology.
One of the ways the Crowd Computer optimizes performance and load is by constantly assessing network latency and executing tasks based upon their synchronous or asynchronous nature — whether the response is required immediately or not.
Another is by enabling complex logic, such as blockchain functions, to be executed off chain, which lifts the burden of non-transactional computation from the blockchain, and delivers app performance while maintaining the trustworthiness of the consensus protocol.
A Changing of the Guard in App Development
The demonstration showcased an app built using the Crowd App Studio development environment, which was running on the Crowd Computer and monitoring its performance.
Craig outlined how a growing number of Fortune 500 companies and startups are adopting the Crowd App Studio technology to accelerate the delivery of apps and sidestep the difficulties of finding and retaining talented software developers.
“The Crowd App Studio allows developers and non-developers alike to create mission-critical apps without needing to understand the myriad of complex technologies typically required to build and deploy these kind of apps”, said Craig. “It’s also much quicker than the traditional development methodologies we’re all familiar with.”
Crowd Machine believes that by removing the need to understand how to write code for app development, we are opening the door to a much wider demographic and encouraging a community to develop around creating, selling and running apps. This is the key to the rapid expansion of the Crowd Computer network.
“We’re already seeing a proliferation of apps beginning to occur within our community,” said Sproule. “It’s being driven by both Fortune 500 companies looking to accelerate business-line solutions and entrepreneurs who now have a means to take their ideas to market without the dependency on software developers. There’s a changing of the guard in the app development and hosting infrastructure markets.”
Visit this Crowd Machine webpage to watch the demonstration webinar or sign-up to receive the Crowd Computer whitepaper.
