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0005. Use Discovery v5 protocol
| Date | Tags |
|---|---|
| 2018-05-14 | architecture, p2p, ethereum |
Status
proposed
Context
Currently peers for messaging are hardcoded in the app. This means we can't easily scale, as some of these nodes might fill up when we have more than N active users.
Discovery v5 protocol (https://ideas.status.im/ideas/092-disc-v5-research, https://github.com/fjl/p2p-drafts/blob/master/discv5-eip.md) allow us to discover new peers from the app and scale server peers in our cluster independently. This is vital for high availability/reliability and security.
Decision
- Use and enable Discovery v5 for all networks
- Do this before beta is released
This means we have capacity to achieve 5000+ DAU / 500 concurrent connection. It seems unlikely we can do so with reliable messaging in the current setup.
Trade-off for this is:
- Uncertainty in introducing a new protocol leading to possible delays
- Possible increase in CPU/Network (we can disable protocol once peers are found though)
Consequences
- This is a top priority for P2P team, lead by @dshulyak and assisted by @adambabik and @jacob
- We need this battle tested to get it into app as soon as possible
- Chat, mobile team and QA team should be aware of this protocol change