At 2:47 a.m, our lead developer came across the Discord call and said: We are out of quota again. Our DeFi analytics dashboard had just become viral following a large upgrade to the protocol and the ensuing traffic burst destroyed our centralized image hosting. Charts would fail to load, user experience was horrible, and we were losing users in a minute. Understandably, I switched to a new tab and search engine and typed in decentralized blob storage Sui. This is how I have become acquainted with @walrusprotocol.
After an hour we were running their SDK. There will be no active onboarding, no sales pitch by the company; it will just be amenable developer tools. We have thrown thousands of active charts with dynamic screenshots containing history files as blobs. It was quick and responsive even during rush times. The best part? We had to pay in at stable rates of fiat, based on the dollar, WAL. There are no gas wars, no amazing overages. Towards sunrise the dashboard re-entered the air and was stronger than ever and our community began proposing questions on how we removed it.
That panic evening has finally taught me an important lesson, and it is not the issue of smart contracts, but the infrastructure that remains operational when you need it most. @walrusprotocol became our back-up, without much noise to talk of.
