Hive-Engine

Oct 17, 2026• thecrazygm

PR #141: Letting Hive-Engine Lite Nodes Catch Up Before Cleaning House

In my last update, I broke down the Knobs A, B, and C changes and teased what was coming next

Oct 5, 2026• thecrazygm

Upgrading MongoDB 8 to 9: Why Systemd Refused to Start and How to Bridge the FCV Gap

If you run a Hive-Engine node (or manage a self-hosted MongoDB instance on Linux), you might run into a nasty surprise after bumping your apt repositories for MongoDB 9.0

Sep 24, 2026• thecrazygm

Recap of the Useful Knobs for Hive-Engine Nodes

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been chipping away at a series of performance tweaks and operator controls for the Hive-Engine node

Sep 17, 2026• thecrazygm

Helping Hive Engine Nodes Catch Up Without Getting Too Clever

I have been working through the next small performance bundle for the Hive-Engine node, and this one is about the part of the node that fetches Hive blocks

Aug 25, 2026• thecrazygm

Making Hive-Engine Nodes Do Less Waiting

I have been continuing the small, careful performance work on the Hive-Engine node

Aug 8, 2026• thecrazygm

PR #138 - A Couple of Useful Knobs for Hive-Engine Nodes

I have been spending some time in the Hive-Engine node codebase, looking at a larger list of possible performance and lite-node improvements

Jul 19, 2026• thecrazygm

Playing Traffic Cop, Part Two: When the Cop Pulls Over Everybody

A little follow-up to my original Playing Traffic Cop - Limiting the bandwith Hive-Engine can use post

Jul 10, 2026• thecrazygm

A Good Week for Small Hive-Engine Fixes

I had two Hive-Engine related PRs accepted

Jul 5, 2026• thecrazygm

An Accidental Stress Test for Hive-Engine Data Integrity

I ended up running a brutal, unplanned stress test on my new Hive-Engine data integrity branch this morning

Jul 1, 2026• thecrazygm

Fixing Data Integrity Issues in Hive-Engine Nodes

I have been digging into a class of problem that is deeply frustrating from an my experience: data loss and corruption after power outages or hard resets

Apr 27, 2026• thecrazygm

The Hive-Engine Failover Fix Is in Main

The Hive-Engine failover fix I have been testing is now merged into main

Apr 13, 2026• thecrazygm

The Hive-Engine Failover PR is Live After a Week of Successful Testing

In my previous post, I talked about why Hive-Engine nodes sometimes "limp along" instead of failing over cleanly when a primary RPC goes bad

Apr 2, 2026• thecrazygm

Minimal Hive-Engine Failover Fix Branch, Looking Better Under Live Testing

I wanted to write this while the work is still in motion instead of waiting until everything is polished and then pretending the path from problem to fix was cleaner than it really was

Mar 30, 2026• thecrazygm

Hive-Engine RPC Failover Is Not Rolling Over Cleanly, Here Are the Two Fix Paths I’d Pitch

Lately I have been digging into a streamer issue on the Hive-Engine node that I think a lot of operators have probably felt, even if they did not immediately know where the problem lived

Jan 25, 2026• thecrazygm

Dusting Off the Relics: Security Fixes for Hive-Engine History

Sometimes, the infrastructure we rely on works so well that it effectively becomes invisible

Jan 2, 2026• thecrazygm

Restoring Hive-Engine Full-Node: How I Fought MongoDB's WiredTiger Throttle and Won

I’m upgrading my Hive Engine node from "Lite" to "Full." I have the hardware to make this trivial: a Dual Xeon Gold server boasting 80 logical cores and 64GB of RAM, backed by fast SSD storage

Dec 29, 2025• thecrazygm

MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847): A breakdown for Hive Engine Operators

A new Critical Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) is making the rounds in the database world

Nov 23, 2025• thecrazygm

Playing Traffic Cop - Limiting the bandwith Hive-Engine can use

Running a Hive Engine node at home is a great way to support the ecosystem, but it comes with a hidden cost: Upload Bandwidth

Nov 6, 2025• thecrazygm

How I rate limit my Hive-Engine Node

"joys" of a fresh reformat is rediscovering all the background noise

Jul 20, 2025• thecrazygm

Coming Soon: A Major Refactor of the Hive-Engine distribution-engine-smt, Maybe?

Sometimes, a small bug report can lead you down a deep rabbit hole

Jun 2, 2025• ecoinstar

Proposal to Continue Hive-Engine Development

This is our third proposal on Hive-Engine, and each time we have delivered more than we have proposed, for less money

May 10, 2025• thecrazygm

New Tool: flowerengine-js - Get Your Hive-Engine Node List!

Following the theme of creating utilities that leverage on-chain metadata for node lists (like nectarflower-js for Hive API nodes), I've put together a similar small JavaScript tool specifically for Hive-Engine nodes :

Nov 12, 2023• bambukah

NetworkStatus update : Quality, Hive-Engine History, more tests ....

Hello World! This post is made to bring you a good news : NetworkStatus received an update, and a good one. For those who don't know, this project is a small API for developers to check Hive network to

Sep 25, 2022• primersion

Engine Snapshot Stats

In this post I will be talking about engine node snapshots, which play a substantial role in the operation of the Hive-Engine sidechain.

Sep 18, 2022• primersion

Engine Light Node and Snapshot Update

In this post I will be giving an update on how Hive-Engine light nodes are coming along and an update on a few other small changes.

May 1, 2022• primersion

Hive-Engine Light Nodes

The Hive Engine sidechain has been running for quite some time now and since its start a lot of new smart contracts were added.

Jun 9, 2021• primersion

Daily Hive Engine Snapshots

You will find snapshots of the last 7 days (in a few days, because I only started 2 days ago) and you can download them directly by clicking on the link.

Jul 4, 2020• holger80