This past dev cycle has been full on for our developers, with major breakthroughs coming in just in the past few days for our Q1 Roadmap targets. 

Specifically, we’re closing in on the initial release of Holochain Cloud Nodes and Web Bridge. These releases comprise the initial functionality for our core product of hosting Holochain applications on the Holo Network.

Holochain Application Hosting in Allograph:

• We can now manually run Holochain applications (hApps) in Allograph. What does this mean exactly? Using our workload manager service, a hApp and its associated Holochain version can be deployed on a targeted HoloPort. It also means we can have different hApps hosted, and running different versions of Holochain on various HoloPorts. We could even use the same HoloPort with different versions of Holochain on it, each for a different hApp. This is something that would have been impossible for HoloPorts using the previous implementation of HPOS (aka our Legacy network). Furthermore, the status of the workload is now managed within our workload manager service’s database. This does a lot to automate our current delivery workflow. Now, all one needs to do is simply upload a .happ file to the database and, boom! – your hApp is deployed to a HoloPort!

Holochain HTTP Gateway Tested & Approved:

• Our devs have successfully retrieved data from a hosted hApp's DHT using Holochain HTTP Gateway. Note that the HTTP gateway is different from Holo’s Web Bridge. Furthermore, those who remember the web gateway used for Fractal Tribute, this was a proof of concept built using our existing Envoy + websocket connections in ways that were difficult to scale.  In fact, this was an important data point to really highlight the need for us. In terms of progress reporting it is important to call this out because this confirms the underlying Holochain layer works as expected for external queries and a prerequisite step towards bridging Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 via Holo Web Bridge. Holo devs are making steady progress on developing our own hosting gateway which talks to the Holochain web gateway (on the HoloPort) via NATS.

• Begin development of the Cloud Node configuration interface for the HTTP Gateway/Holo Web bridge connection. Humm will be our first customer to partake in the inaugural production deployment.