Swarm Alpha Online Event - Bee Client - Rinke Hendricksen and Swarm team discussion

Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 12:00 AM

Website: https://swarm.ethereum.org/ Apply for grants: https://swarmgrants.typeform.com/to/SbrJiiiL Letting the developers in Viktor’s talk was the cue for Rinke and Janoš to show off and explain their work. According to Janoš, DiSC (Distributed Immutable Store for Chunks) is Swarm’s base for all the higher-level applications (such as chunker and joiner) and distributes all the stored chunks to nodes. He also pointed out that the Swarm team has been working hard on the bee client, which laid the foundation for the network and is now in its second version, a lot leaner and advanced. “The idea was to let the developers be able to communicate with these lower levels of the client through a simple API,” Janoš finished. This was where Črt Ahlin took over and gave a quick overview of the bee client documentation. You can, of course, check it out for yourself here. Release the bees! And that’s when the moment the crowd has been waiting for finally arrived. It was time to let the “bees into the wild” and Svetomir fired up the newly reimagined Swarm node and made it available to the public. It marked the beginning of the new Swarm network that will continue to expand as new nodes join in. After the “bees were released”, Santiago walked us through the steps of starting up an individual Swarm node and how to connect it to the network. He also demonstrated how uploading and downloading a simple picture file to a node works. But as Rinke pointed out: “Although this may look like a simple task, a lot of moving parts had to be synchronised in the back to make it work.”