Engineering Velocity: Inside Anza’s Performance Team
An interview with Alessandro Decina
We sat down with Alessandro Decina who leads Anza's performance team to find out how he continues to make the fastest blockchain in existence even faster.
Decina represents the beating heart of Solana’s performance culture—a relentless pursuit of speed grounded in pragmatic engineering, rather than theoretical perfection. His small performance team punches well above their weight class, finding and fixing the bugs that collectively compound into systemic slowdowns.
This interview is an autopsy of speed. We discuss everything from his days working with multimedia pipelines to the cultural guardrails that enable four engineers to out-ship entire organizations.
How to Build Solana Apps with Gill
Gill is the newest JavaScript/TypeScript-based Solana developer tooling library. It includes both lightly opinionated abstractions to accelerate developer productivity and lower-level primitives, providing developers the flexibility to choose their own approach.
This article will cover the basics of the gill library, what's included, how to get started, and the differences between Gill and @solana/kit, formerly known as "web3.js v2".