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Description
Performance benchmarking distributed systems (such as DLTs) is a challenging task, comprising of multiple aspects, such as scalable workload generation, representative workload definitions, and comprehensive data analysis.
Hyperledger Caliper is a general-purpose benchmarking tool with the goal of mitigating the aforementioned aspects of performance benchmarking:
- It provides a flexible architecture to allow scalable workload generation.
- It collects and reports results based on detailed client-observable execution traces.
- It allows the implementation/plug-in of custom workload behaviors to meet the diverse criteria of a wide range of business scenarios.
The flexible support of the aforementioned performance benchmarking aspects inherently makes the setup and configuration of a Caliper-based project cumbersome and error-prone:
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The exact steps of the project are detailed in the Expected Outcome section.
Additional Information
- Caliper GitHub repository: https://github.com/hyperledger/caliper
- Caliper example benchmarks GitHub repository: https://github.com/hyperledger/caliper-benchmarks
- Caliper documentation page: https://hyperledger.github.io/caliper/
- Architecture documentation: https://hyperledger.github.io/caliper/vNext/architecture/
- Benchmark configuration documentation: https://hyperledger.github.io/caliper/vNext/bench-config/
- Workload module documentation: https://hyperledger.github.io/caliper/vNext/workload-module/
- Caliper Discord channels (registration needed for login)
Learning Objectives
- Mastering the open-source workflow
- Managing issues, pull requests, development branches, and repository content
- Being part of an open community, navigating and utilizing different forums
- Working in a team
- Covering a wide spectrum of software development skills
- Conducting unsupervised research for state-of-the-art solutions
- Writing detailed, consistent specifications
- Designing/implementing functionally rich, testable, maintainable software components
- Testing methodologies for rigorous testing
- Documentation and presentation skills
- Developer documentation
- User documentation
- To-the-point, coherent presentation
Expected Outcome
The mentee must complete the following tasks by the end of the internship:
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At least an ongoing B.Sc. study in software engineering is required.
Skills
Required skills:
- Basic understanding of version control and git
- Experience with JavaScript programming (in Node.JS context)
- Intermediate verbal and writing skills in English
- High-level understanding of Hyperledger Caliper components
Nice-to-have skills (the mentee can learn these during the internship):
- Advanced git usage (upstream repositories, branching, rebasing, etc)
- Familiarity with Visual Studio Code and its extension mechanism
- Experience in unit testing and JS-related unit testing frameworks
- Writing documentation in markdown
- Capability for unsupervised learning and research
Future plans
The project is an important stepping stone towards lowering the entry barrier for performance benchmarking DLTs using Caliper.
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Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Critical Systems Research Group
Email: attila.klenik@vik.bme.hu
GitHub handle: aklenik
Discord handle: klenik#9902
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