How Agnostic Engineering improved storage latency for running Polygon nodes on AWS
Database Blog
The article discusses how Agnostic Engineering improved storage latency for running Polygon nodes on AWS using a combination of instance store volumes and EBS gp3 volumes.
Specifically, the article covers:
- The need for low-latency read operations to keep blockchain nodes up-to-date
- Using EC2 instance store volumes in RAID 0 configuration for low-latency storage
- Mirroring data to an EBS gp3 volume using RAID 1 for durability
- Setting up OpenZFS with data compression for space optimization
- Providing a CloudFormation template for deploying the solution
- Conclusion highlighting the performance and flexibility benefits
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