Oh, dear reader, gather round the flickering candle of technological despair, for in the small, godforsaken hours-1:59 a.m. PDT, to be precise-the universe decided to sneeze upon the immaculate server of Ripple’s own David Schwartz. Imagine, if you will, a lone sentinel of code, sworn to perfect uptime, suddenly clutching its digital chest and wheezing like a consumptive poet in a St. Petersburg tavern.
Our tormented CTO had erected this single-hub fortress to worship the holy UNL validators and the restless spirits of other XRPL applications. No disruptive tests, he vowed-only silent vigil and the gathering of pristine data. Yet the ledger, that great indifferent beast, laughed at his piety. For fifteen agonizing minutes, the round-trip latency spiked as though every packet had suddenly remembered unpaid sins and paused to confess.
“Perhaps,” mused Schwartz in tones worthy of the Underground Man, “it is the hub’s own network connectivity that has betrayed me-my child, my pride-like a son who gambles away the family rubles.” Three peers out of 343 severed their bonds; traffic drooped ever so slightly, like the mustache of a provincial bureaucrat who has just learned his promotion was a clerical error.
Strange network behavior?
Strange? Nay, it is positively Dostoyevskian! A cosmic shrug at 1:59 a.m., a reminder that even blockchains dream dark dreams. 😈
I have my first bit of weird data from the hub. I’m tracking peer round-trip latency at application level and there was a weird spike that shows significantly worse performance for a period of about 15 minutes.
The spike starts at about 1:59 AM PDT.
The thing that puzzles me…
– David ‘JoelKatz’ Schwartz (@JoelKatz) August 15, 2025
Alas, with only one day of “good” instrumentation-oh, the irony-our hero knows not whether this is a nightly visitation, a bureaucratic fluke, or the ledger’s own subconscious rebellion. “Network congestion,” he proclaims, clutching at the phrase like a frayed rope over an abyss. And so he toils onward, Prometheus in a hoodie, forging better instrumentation and the twin idols Alloy and Grafana to spy upon the next midnight betrayal.
Meanwhile, in a brighter corner of the ledger’s soul, three amendments-fixAMMv1_3, fixEnforceNFTokenTrustlineV2, and fixPayChanCancelAfter-have mustered a majority and begun their fourteen-day march toward activation on the 29th of August, 2025. Perhaps the ledger will forgive its momentary lapse and allow progress to bloom like an unlikely crocus through the snow of existential dread. 🌱 Or perhaps it will sneeze again. Who can say?
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2025-08-16 16:40