Engineering Report - February 2022

Workstream Discussion Engineering
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  • February did not see a lot of user-facing functionality hit the app. The biggest focus was on Cosmos, and there was a lot of code committed to support Cosmos that is not yet user facing. The demos on March 2 showed wallets with ATOM connected, showing balances and charts. That was all in a test environment. We had set a target date of March 28 to deliver ATOM balances, send, and receive in production. And we expect it to be delivered before that date.

    Unchained:

  • Cosmos API typescript client
  • Golang websocket server and connection manager
  • Cosmos websocket client and address registry
  • Cosmos transaction history
  • Tx parsing improvements and yearn support
  • Infrastructure cost optimization
  • TaxiStake cluster
  • Web:
  • Support for ENS names (feature)
  • Auto connect wallet on refresh (feature)
  • UI layer revamp (feature)
  • Yearn functionality and UI improvements, including all Yearn asset support (feature)
  • Depositor (single-sided staking) code / Cosmos foundation work (not visible)
  • Cosmos implemented in ChainAdapters (middleware library)
  • Majority of Cosmos functionality implemented behind feature flags (demo’d on 3/2)
  • Code refactored with “plug-in” model (improves maintainability and future dev speed)
  • Localization work
  • Privacy Policy & Terms of Service
  • Cypress automated testing (improves quality and future dev speed)
  • Dependency package upgrades (improves maintainability)
  • Bounty Program Progress:
  • Defined process with templates across all repos
  • Slight increase in successful bounty PRs in Feb, compared to Jan. 21 closed in Jan, 23 closed in Feb.
  • Spending through our bounty budget - getting good value
  • SRE:
  • Initialize/configure TaxiStake services that unchained depends on (Pulumi, AWS, OpsGenie)
  • Initial cost-optimization/rightsizing after v2 launch
  • Refactor CI pipeline to deploy to both unchained clusters concurrently
  • Dev/Public unchained now served by TaxiStake cluster
  • Monitoring / logging improvements, better awareness of slow request duration
  • Recruitment:
  • Hire announced in Jan, Apotheosis, started in Feb
  • One new hire, Gomes, started in Feb
  • Previous Centralized ShapeShift engineer, Elmutt, joined the workstream on March 1
  • Unchained Candidate working bounties
  • Getting ready to post and interview for Technical Program Manager role