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Doctor Kevin Bowers on Firedancer We go deep with KFB on - The architectural decisions of Firedancer 🔥💃🏻 - High performance networking - What a successful mainnet rollout will look like - KFB's unconventional views on programming languages, scaling solutions, data flow optimization, and much, much more. Lean in

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Austin Federa | IBRL | 🇺🇸2 years ago

Thank you again to Kevin Bowers and the Firedancer team for making this happen. It’s a real privilege and pleasure to do these yearly episodes 🙏

Digital Animal 🟠2 years ago

KFB is such an unbelievable and unique match for Solana. Let me frame it this way: My professor back in the day was specialized in algorithms, data structures, software design and compiler building. Took us all the way through performance optimization hell in C. He was definitely goated and really formed me as a programmer. But KFB, not only with his background in supercomputing, is on a much higher, even more wholistic and interdisciplinary level. Solana is optimizing for both the hardware and software side of its technology while the whole crypto industry is rather focusing on conceptual adjustments in their software. It's insane how uniquely Solana is positioned - even crazier counting in KFB and the Firedancer team.

based charker2 years ago

@csjcode @jump_firedancer I totally understood all of that

Pepu Army1 year ago

@jump_firedancer @Austin_Federa @SolanaVM $SVM

Monkey102 years ago

@jump_firedancer Wen Solana airdrop Fedy baby x ✈ 💰

HoquiamH◎◎die2 years ago

@jump_firedancer Really looking forward to watching this later today. Thanks for making this!

Dude2 years ago

@jump_firedancer Excellent, learned a lot and appreciated the discussion around specific applications or motivations. 🔥💃🎙️

George ☀️ Step Finance2 years ago

@jump_firedancer Great discussion !

Tristan2 years ago

@jump_firedancer Cant wait to watch this

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