Things to look at (ref: Bitswap)

[jbenet]

• dhtHell https://github.com/whyrusleeping/dhtHell

  • Testing the IPFS DHT, can be adjusted to run other protocols
  • test case focused
  • has a little DSL for workloads
  • interesting example of what we could do for bitswap
  • no metrics collection yet

• IPTB https://github.com/whyrusleeping/iptb

  • used to test a small number of ipfs nodes in one machine
  • can be used to run experiments
  • no metrics collection yet

• test-lab - https://github.com/ipfs/test-lab/

  • ideally we can use this to ship to tons of real machines and run "real simulations" (simulations on a real network)

• https://github.com/heems/bssim

  • simulator for bitswap, we tried doing this a long time ago with an undergrad, and got somewhere, but not clear how useful / usable it is
  • the goal was to get to ML exploration, but we didn't get there in a summer
  • this took measurements, and plotted them in graphs
  • it may be good enough to revive and make work, either just for bitswap, or along test-lab
  • or at the very least it can be informative for the proper test-lab

• https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/tree/master/exchange/bitswap/

  • we'll want to break out go-ipfs/bitswap into its own repo
  • https://github.com/ipfs/go-bitswap
  • like https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-bitswap

• possibilities with browsers

  • create some simulation that can go viral and have 10Ks of uasers on the page