Dispatch Developer Update — 1/12/18
A week in the life of a Dispatch Developer
Meet the team
This was welcome week for developers at Dispatch Labs. I met Greg McGregor a few weeks back, and it was love at first sight. When Greg and I started geeking out about trustless systems and quantum entropy, and I knew immediately that we should be working together.
Greg had caught the blockchain bug, and he was contagious. Pretty soon I was at his company Christmas party, talking with Bob, Nicolae, and his brother Chris McGregor about the power blockchain has to change the world.
A couple weeks (and investments) later and everyone’s part of the Dispatch Labs team!
High Level Planning
Starting Monday, we sat down together as a team and diagramed what the architecture stack looks like, and how we plan on building it. A lot is likely to change, but this is an awesome diagram for seeing some of the inner-workings of a Dispatch node.
We also made some developer environment decisions like deciding on Kubernetes over a Docker swarm. We’re also deciding on how to best modularize the code structure of the Disgo repository, so we end up with the most practical and reusable libraries, not just for Dispatch, but hopefully for crypto projects of the future too.
Finally, we’re looking at the fundamentals of distributed consensus to make sure we’re using the most scalable, decentralized Dapp platform possible.
Asks
It’s becoming clear that we could use some specialized support on the development team. If you feel like you resonate with one of these roles or know someone who would, please reach out to me (zane@dispatchlabs.io)to talk about team building:
- GoLang Expert Developer
- Distributed Systems Expert
- Mathematics/cryptography
tl;dr
- 4 new developers on board (Yay!)
- Architecture diagraming
- Developer environments
- Disgo code structure
- Help us hire!
