Bacalhau Updates - December 2022

Thank you for a great 2022! Welcome to the final monthly Bacalhau newsletter of 2022!

As we approach the end of the year, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your ongoing support and involvement in our community. It's been great to see you at our events, using our products, and giving us feedback. We are grateful for your engagement and contribution to our success in 2022.

As we gear up for the holiday season, we wanted to share a few of our notable achievements from the past year. 

🔦 Product highlights  Bacalhau in 2022

We wrote the first line of code in February, and now we are not only live and in production, but we have also released Bacalhau Beta in November! With this release, Bacalhau offers: 

• Simplified parallel data processing on 100 TB+ datasets

• Reuse of existing tools - no rewriting your Python, R, Rust… even bash. Just deploy.

• Dramatically decreased network latency for processing.

• Truly serverless execution - just specify your job

• Native accelerator support with a variety of different GPUs

• Native IPFS/Filecoin support

• WASM support - it can deterministically run WASM code, and we have a job pipeline 

We have lots more planned too, read more on Bacalhau's long-term vision and roadmap! 

🤝 Connecting with our Developer Community

We are constantly amazed by the creativity and innovation of our community and developers at Bacalhau. In 2022, we saw an incredible array of community contributions and use cases for our products that exceeded all of our expectations! 

• Wilman and his team built the best sustainability use-case, and his team on hypertally — decentralized dMRV platform (Digital measurement, reporting, and verification) for carbon capture projects (very well done!) 🌳🌴🌲

•  Antonio and Federico built Wiki-IPFS project to search CID/hashes of the files on IPFS via Bacalhau 🔍 

• Josh Klopfenstein made the world's first decentralized calculator  Goldberg calculator, on Bacalhau 🍬 

😎 Read the full list of our ingenious community use cases on decentralized computation, machine learning, and big data processing! And our many examples built by the core Bacalhau team.👈

🕹 Best content: Videos and Blogs for 2022

• Overview of Bacalhau Beta. 

  • David Aronchick announced Bacalhau Beta with WASM support, Simplified UX, and better reliability.

  •  Kai Davenport wrote a technical overview of the Bacalhau Beta release.

• CoD Summit2 summaries.

  • Iryna wrote an overview on CoD Summit2, day 1. 

  • Simon Worthington wrote an excellent summary on day 2 on the Platform track and analysis and discussions they had, do check it out! 

  • Wes Floyd conveyed CoD Summit day 2 on the Data and Usage track in his blog.

• Tutorials. 

  • Vedant's Bacalhau and Open AI Whisper example is a great way to begin with Bacalhau. To help you understand and make the most of this example, Favour has also written a comprehensive tutorial.

  • Our community member, Wilman, wrote a tutorial about using Bacalhau and OpenCV.

• Video: Ally made outstanding video tutorials on:

  • Analysing Ethereum Data with Bacalhau 

  • Creating Your Text to Image Script.

🎙 Our Favorite Compute over Data Talks of 2022

We might be biased, but our favorite presentation was our own 

• David Aronchick's talk on Bacalhau State of the Union with 8 live demos, including a LIVE demo on Stable Diffusion! If these demos weren't convincing enough to try out Bacalhau and you want to know "What is and Why" Bacalhau, then watch Revolutionizing the Big Data Age With Compute over Data.

• The talk on "Growing the Bacalhau Network: Project Update & FIL+ Incentives for SPs" was presented by our engineers, Luke & Kai. 

• Simon & Enrico, our engineers, gave another talk on "WASM & Pipeline Support in Bacalhau".

🛰 Growing our Partner Ecosystem

In this past year, the Bacalhau project has made great strides in building partnerships with a diverse range of organizations, both traditional Web2 and innovative Web3. We are excited to announce that we are partnering with:

• The team at Blocz and City of Las Vegas to deliver decentralized compute and storage for the City of Las Vegas public safety use cases.

• The Web3 team LabDAO is building the engine behind their LabExchange offering to use Bacalhau for batch bioinformatics pipeline.

As we look ahead to 2023, we are eager to expand our partner ecosystem even further. We are focused on collaborating with research universities, non-profit organizations, etc. that are archiving large datasets on Filecoin for enterprise (commercial) use cases. We look forward to continuing to grow and innovate with our partners in the coming year.

❄️ Happy Holidays

We hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and we look forward to continuing to serve you in the new year. From all of us at Bacalhau, happy holidays!

🎶 Bacalhau Twelve Days of Christmas

On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Twelve distributed compute nodes,
Eleven distributed storage nodes,
Ten smart contracts,
Nine decentralized apps,
Eight consensus algorithms,
Seven distributed ledger blocks,
Six data shards,
Five Byzantine protocols,
Four fault-tolerant servers,
Three IPFS nodes,
Two Filecoin miners,
And a Bacalhau compute network for me.

🎩 Questions/comments? Let us know!

• Our Website

• Our Google Group

• Our Slack

• Our Repo

• Our Docs

• Our Build Instructions

• Our Place To Complain about Missing Features/File an Issue (and in Our Slack)

Thanks for reading, and onward!

Your humble Bacalhau team