(#31) What is the Solana Geyser Plugin?
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Everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.. all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.” - Murakomi
We feel less anxious about the timing of our lives when we surrender control to a timeline that is our own. If we are too rigid, afraid to honor the ebbs and flows of existence, we miss an integral part of life - the reception of the unknown, from which beauty and surprise emerges.
What is the Solana Geyser Plugin?
Solana’s Geyser Plugin helps reduce dependence on validator nodes. RPC service providers can get flooded with requests when the Solana network experiences high traffic. High traffic can cause validators to fall behind the node leader.
The Solana Geyser Plugin helps devs access some forms of data without requesting them on-chain. Geyser routes RPC requests to another memory location and reduces dependence on validator nodes. This is a powerful tool for indexing information structures to allow Daaps to be as fast and performant as possible.
Geyser only validators have lower hardware requirements compared to voting or RPC nodes, which makes them more manageable to operate on cloud computing platforms such as AWS or GCP.
Links:
Blockdaemon Kafka Plugin - popular open-source Geyser plug-in
Intro to Geyser - good summary from Magic Eden Blog
Geyser Plugins - solana docs
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