30.09.2020

this month I've been aiming to help support the community of node operators in Discord specifcally in areas such as backup, monitoring.

• Updated the tBTCbot Twitter bot to mainnet  and started getting some engagement feel free to follow along here https://twitter.com/tbtcbot
• Pushed mainnet updates to the Helm charts https://github.com/ajcrowe/keep-helm-chart/releases/tag/v1.0.1
• Ropsten nodes running on 0xe0930d3C9f9dC6423E07829E62cF86e92c6C6D89
• Started some poc for options around an Operator for making deploying super simple to Kubernetes 

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31.08.2020

After discussions around node providers and rate limits  in the last couple of weeks I thought this would be a valuable addition to get people thinking about this as we approach the stakedrop! You can find the article here: https://medium.com/@alex.j.crowe/keep-node-availability-resiliency-de9ab7184439 My operator address is 0xe0930d3C9f9dC6423E07829E62cF86e92c6C6D89

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01.08.2020

I've worked through a few things this month about deployment, monitoring and continued to develop the twitter bot (and made the repo public!)
I put together a Helm Chart, this should make deploying nodes into Kubernetes quick and easy. To help users get started with this I wrote up guide and which also included setting up Prometheus and Grafana and installing a dashboard.
You can find all these resources in the links below!

• https://github.com/ajcrowe/keep-helm-chart
• https://github.com/ajcrowe/keep-grafana-dashboard
• https://medium.com/@alex.j.crowe/deploy-a-keep-node-to-kubernetes-and-monitor-with-prometheus-grafana-4ee5c7d9e9a4

And my bot (https://twitter.com/tbtcbot) is now open source here https://github.com/ajcrowe/tbtcbot

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01.07.2020

I've put together a first pass on a Twitter bot for tBTC, it's not complete but once the testnet is active again I can add more.
Currently I've built out the framework and have it Tweeting basic daily stats which include:

• Current issuance (in btc and usd) 
• Percentage increase over previous day
• Min/Max for that day 

You can see an example of the tweet here: https://twitter.com/tbtcbot
I've also open sourced the code here: https://github.com/ajcrowe/tbtcbot

I will be adding extra features including

• realtime minting, burning and other events
• ci/cd probably into a serverless deployment 
• collecting more data time as the network grows to allow more complex stats (velocity of tokens, net flows, ownership concentrations etc)

 I've been looking to improve my Typescript so it's been a good excuse to do so!