Meeting Note - 2025-12-16

[micpapal]

Participants:
Sam Betts
Michele Papalini
János Sarusi-Kis
László Puskás
Mauro Sardara
Luca Muscariello
Sándor Magyari

The meeting focused on updates to the Slim community, including the release of new bindings for application development, configuration discussions, and deployment strategies.

Notes

• The meeting discussed updates on the Slim community and the new bindings for application development.
• A stable version of Slim bindings is ready for packaging and will be published in a new repository.
• The bindings allow users to encapsulate a Slim node within slimctl without requiring Docker or a developer environment.
• A demo showcased how to quickly spin up a Slim node using the command line tool with new commands.
• The current configuration options for Slim nodes are limited, prompting discussions on expanding configuration capabilities.
• Participants debated whether to maintain both Rust binaries and slimctl for running data plane nodes or focus on one option.
• The discussion included considerations for deployment environments, including local setups and Kubernetes integration for testing purposes.
• Demo involves deploying five guides, ten agents, and ten tourists with variable interaction timing.
• Performance tests reached up to a hundred jobs, but not all run simultaneously.
• Plans include using Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring metrics and creating benchmark reports.