Script for Performance Demo
Overview
This document describes the order of events planned for the performance demo at RCon3.
Cast
| Role | Name(s) |
|---|---|
| Master of ceremony | Medha Parlikar |
| Pyrofex CTO | Mike Stay |
RChain COOP board member | Kenny Rowe |
| Core team developers | Michael Birch |
| Test net genesis validators | Fangwei He |
| TSZ HING LAU | |
| Dror Dayan | |
| Steven Bezzio | |
| Tomislav Grospić | |
| Navneet Suman | |
| Lee Carter | |
| Jacob Gadikian | |
| Victor Chkalikoff | |
| Nuno Lopes | |
| MERVYN CHNG | |
| Dubravko Golub | |
| Joshy Orndorff | |
| Nicholas Bascombe-Fox | |
| Jacob Bassiri-Tehrani | |
| Ted Barkov | |
| gregg dourgarian | |
| Helge Qvam | |
| Mark Pui | |
| Will Qiu | |
| Matthew Kaye | |
| Jake Gillberg | |
| Tracey Simmons | |
| Deng YuMing | |
| Karen Moskowitz | |
| Qinwen Zheng | |
| Vadim Trifonov | |
| Ojimadu Chidindu | |
| Will Qiu | |
| TIANYU HU | |
| YEOH, JIT LEONG | |
| Charles Holtzkampf | |
| Pavitra Saxena | |
| Dashboard operator | Kelly Foster |
Techical considerations
Use a Zoom session to toggle between screen shares (slides, terminals, and dashboard).
Script
Act I - Prelude
Duration - 5 minutes
The main ballroom of the Berlin Conference center.
Main screen to support display of slides, terminal windows, and the performance metrics dashboard.
MC at the podium.
Test net launchers at tables at the front of the room facing the audience.
Core dev team is in the front of the room
MC: Goals - Describe the performance test.
- Welcome
- High-level overview of the activities of the session (slide)
- Intro of the cast (round robin)
- Describe the test net network - Yesterday we launched the test net, and we have N validators in the network, etc...
Act II - Teach
Duration - 15 minutes
Same setting
Medha Parlikar Goals - Set expectations around performance metrics.
- Overview of what we will discuss
- Describe what a COMM event is, what is the difference between a transaction and a COMM event.
- Talk about the differences between latency, throughput, time to finalization, how the proof of Stake consensus protocol has this concept of 'safety'
- Talk about the stages that a transaction goes through - Deployment, Proposal, Validation, 'Finalization'
- Talk about the tests we will run.
- Talk about the performance harness we built, where it is in Github, etc..
Act III - Test initiation - Demonstrate COMM events
Duration - 5 minutes
Same setting
MC: kick off the test
- Watch the commencement of the test.
- Watch the genesis of the block on the bootstrap node (terminal)
- Watch the start up of a validator node (terminal)
- Watch the receipt of the block from the bootstrap node (terminal)
- Show dashboard for timer and count of validating signatures
Act IV - Interlude
Duration - 15 minutes
Same setting
REV issuance SME: Goal teach REV issuance (focus on what RHOC holders should do and should expect)
Act V - Conclusion
Duration - 15 minutes
Same setting
MC: Goal - confirm the launch of test net, here's how to join, solicit feedback on changes for main net launch