Performance and Tracing update 2024-10-21 (#489)

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+title: Performance & Tracing Update
+slug: 2024-10-21-performance-and-tracing
+authors: mgmeier
+tags: [performance-tracing]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High level summary
+
+* Benchmarking: Started release benchmarks for Node `10.0`.
+* Development: Governance action workload - alternative tx submission method built, passes tests.
+* Tracing: Preparing the bump to `typed-protocols-0.3`.
+
+
+## Low level overview
+
+
+### Benchmarking
+
+We've started the benchmarking process for the freshly tagged, fully Chang 2 capable Node version `10.0` pre-release.
+
+### Development
+
+Calibrating a governance action / voting workload within our submission service `tx-generator` is
+more involved than anticipated.  
+
+As measurements for performance impact of voting are required very shortly, we have - in parallel - created a
+`nix` / `bash` based solution. That one uses `cardano-cli` for creating and submitting proposals and voting transactions, while the generator can run any other known workload simultaneously. Thus, we expect to get a clear performance delta between voting vs. no voting going on. This setup has already been deployed, and is
+passing testing - soon to be used for the first real-world voting benchmarks.
+
+The implementation however is less flexible, much less parametrizable, and in its design
+tied to the very specific, fixed topology of the Nomad cluster. The workload definition inside
+`tx-generator` will thus continue, and eventually be used as the standard for benchmarks targeting voting / governance.
+
+### Tracing
+
+The new tracing system, more specifically, the components that forward metrics and traces to `cardano-tracer`,
+contain well-defined peers in the sense of the `typed-protocols` package. The upcoming bump to recently
+released version `0.3` contains breaking changes in the package API. We've begun necessary downstream adjustments in our packages, re-defining aforementioned peers using the new API.