2025-06-12 –, Side Stage - Cinema 6
When building scalable testnets which reflect real-world environments, there are many factors to take into account: ease of use for developers, performance, observability, maintenance, and cost. This workshop is meant to be an interactive session with a presentation for people to better understand how to build such systems starting "from scratch".
Many testnets and devnets exist, in fact is is a requirement for any blockchain both for protocol reasons and for developers (and sometimes users) to better test what they intend to deploy to mainnet. In protocol development this is especially crucial, as all network conditions and edge-cases must be explored in order to create true resilience for a live blockchain protocol. This becomes increasingly complex when multiple clients are thrown into the mix, so how best can we do this while still adhering to a keep-it-simple philosophy?
Erin is a jill-of-all-trades engineer at Parity Technologies, focussing on Polkadot. She is a distributed systems and blockchain fan, and wants to create good user experiences and resilient infrastructure for the masses to use. In her spare time, she likes creating art and boating.