Monthly Roundup for Holo & Holochain
As the ecosystem continues to grow we’re here to point out all the magic that you might have missed below the surface. Amidst the continued progress on Holo and Holochain development, the sweet news that all of our super fans heard loud and clear is true P2P networking is here!
If you’re wondering what exactly we’ve been working on at Holo and Holochain this past month — the wait is over! Let’s jump right in.
Steady Progress
This issue is one of those small ones that come when everyone is heads-down working on stuff, but it’s all boring stuff — the ‘sausage making’ that is so crucial to a project’s quality and success, but isn’t all that pleasant to look at. As such, it’ll be a grab bag of things that have been completed recently and things that you can expect soon.
Read Holochain Dev Pulse 86 — Steady Progress
IT’S ALIIIIIIVE!
I have some big news this week: THIS THING WORKS! We currently have about 50 HoloPort owners, our beloved Pre-Release Testers, chatting with each other using a fully peer-to-peer Holochain network. It’s working, it’s fast (usually), and most importantly, it’s all behaving correctly at the networking layer.
Read Holochain Dev Pulse 87 — IT’S ALIIIIIIVE!
𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗽
This evolving product roadmap outlines our upcoming milestones as we work through our agile development plans for Holo & Holochain RSM. Check it out on our website where you will find more details.
Holochain RSM Migration Guide
while there’s not a lot of code samples in the guide, it does point out ways that we’ve been able to learn things over the past couple years. We’ve been able to leverage Rust in better ways for the SDK, which means app devs are able to cut their code 50–60% and write more ergonomic code in the process. We’re also taking advantage of advances in concurrency libs from the Rust ecosystem to remove deadlocks and race conditions and generally make this crazy distributed computing thing more efficient.
So the migration guide + the HDK docs (not available online, unfortunately), plus the new holochain codebase might be interesting for other RiB devs to explore. Check out evolving Migration Guide from Redux to RSM
Regular Holo Dev Updates on Twitter
If you are curious about the — hot from the press dev updates — those can be found on Twitter.
Build it! [Powered by Holochain]
Build It! Is a short, live, guided tour of how to quickly develop working apps on Holochain using scaffolding and rapid application development tools.
- Watch Hack it with Phil EP 1
- Watch Hack it with Phil EP 2
- Watch Hack it with Phil EP 3
Holochain Ecosystem Sessions
Ecosystem Sessions are long-form conversations with long-standing Holochain app builders on progress, beliefs and the ins and outs of building distributed solutions and organisations around them.
- Ecosystem Session with Health Commons Connect
- Ecosystem Session with Junto
- Ecosystem Session with hREA
Rust In Blockchain Newsletter
RiB Newsletter #19 — Rust and smart contracts
Watch the replay of AMA 44
In December we’ve hosted an AMA 44, you can watch the replay here. Grab a sneak peak of Elemental Chat.
We want to hear your questions for our next AMA so go ahead and ask away!
What developers say about Holochain RSM?
This month the huge and important event was the release of Holochain RSM — a new better, faster, stronger Holochain. Now it’s the time to hear what developers say about it!
- What do developers say about Holochain RSM?
- Holochain RSM is Functional “So much less code!”
- Holochain RSM is fast, testing is just so fast!
- Holochain is a data integrity fabric
- Holochain RSM Low Code, High Repeatability
Watch the videos from community devs playing with and learning about Holochain RSM!
Join the RSM Technical discussion on the Holochain Forum and learn more about the various features of the new Holochain and how to migrate your hApp. Find the playlist here.
AMA Quick Cuts — New Playlist on YouTube now!
Watch short clips on YouTube straight out of the AMA! Check the playlist here
Our community and events team is working tirelessly to bring people together and create amazing things on Holochain. As always, we would like to give our appreciation to all the community organisers without whom it would be not possible to create this magic! Many events are conducted virtually to respect the #SocialDistancing, so nothing is stopping you to participate!
Interested in building a hApp? Join Holochain Forum and start your journey!
Check out our upcoming events section and come along. Everyone’s welcome!
As always, if you have general questions about Holo, Holochain, or HoloPorts — or want to join our enthusiastic community — the best place to start is on our Twitter and Holochain Forum.
If you have specific questions or any technical issues regarding Holo or HoloPorts, you can read more, or contact us directly at https://help.holo.host.
We hope you’ve enjoyed this month’s short news collection and we will catch you next month — Paulii @ Holo
