Reorg

Polygon is moving forward with plans to hard fork the network early next week following a contentious community debate last month, according to its website. According to a recent blog post from Polygon Labs, the upcoming hard fork will aim to address issues with chain reorganizations (reorgs) and gas fee…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own If you work at a company of a couple hundred or more you will probably experience a reorg at some point in your career. These events are usually treated with some sensitivity, which is good because it’s impacting people’s jobs and work environment. …

“Evelyn, the company is going through some changes, and you are going to another team.” Sitting casually yet cautiously across from me, my manager carefully enunciated the news in a shortened 1-on-1 conversation during the team offsite. I, speechless at first, was immediately taken over by endless roars in my…

Sorry to any Rabbit Hole Roundup fans (not that I have any). Going a bit out of order here by going back to intros. Anyway, this is a little shameless self-promotion. Fugggh — I hate talking about myself. Kind of necessary these days, though, unfortunately. The nice folks at Re-Org…

Dealing with Chain Reorganizations in Ethereum is difficult. Even more difficult is to test that your code handles them correctly. I had to find a way to properly simulate Reorgs while working at the go-perun framework. But as it turned out: there was None! The best approach so far was to start…

Imagine your own casually dysfunctional family. At home you have high-performers and low performers, people who are more detail-oriented and those who prefer to see the big picture. There are some who don’t quite fit the group culture and some that are visibly more engaged than others. As your family’s…

Malicious actors have tried to re-org the blockchain, The attack started late last night. Within the core team, work had begun to figure…

The company I work for just completed their second re-org of the year. As if 2020 wasn’t already bad enough. The first was to get the “pillars aligned”. That’s management-speak for, “We probably shouldn’t have put the DBA’s and the Android developers under a director who specializes in marketing.” Okay…

World Bank’s IEG recently published a evaluation report on some of the organizational changes that happened under World Bank President Kim; Certain aspects of the new operating model are valuable, especially its enabling of global knowledge flow; these are the effect of setting up Global Practices that operate more globally…