Solana Network has been met with outrage from the community after two attempts to restart the network following an outage. In response, Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has announced plans to tackle the balance between reliability and scalability.

Yakovenko stated that the issues surrounding the 1.14 network update, which focused on improving speed and scale, showed how difficult it is to maintain stability during major updates. Core engineers are now focusing on improving the software release rollout process by bringing in external developers and auditors to test and uncover exploits.

A third of the Solana Labs core engineering team has formed an opposing team to provide more hooks and instrumentation to the validator code to assist in uncovering the exploits. The network has also been improved by Solana Labs and outside core technical teams, and they will keep doing so with an emphasis on reliability. The team is also working to make the restart procedure smoother.

The Firedancer team at Jump Crypto is also working on a second validator client to boost the network’s throughput, efficiency, and resiliency. Yakovenko said that core engineers are committed to making changes so that reliability does not suffer for the sake of innovation and speed.

“The community’s input and support are invaluable and help the network get closer to a more decentralized future,” Yakovenko said. With the recent upgrades, Solana Network is taking steps to ensure reliability and scalability, while still allowing for innovation and speed.