Fuck this is hard
Committed to reading this whole damn book. Currently on page 150, will write notes here going forward.
The following tools, if mastered, give you access to all layers in the ethereum stack.
Reth - Ethereum execution client
Foundry - Smart contract building/testing/deploying framework
Cryo - Rust tool able to extract ethereum data via RPC requests
Flood (this is python kek) - Python tool for analyzing/comparing performance of different RPC servers
Artemis - Rust template for building modular MEV bots
Heimdall - Heimdall is an advanced EVM smart contract toolkit specializing in bytecode analysis
Rust has proven to be an ideal choice for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable infrastructure. It offers high performance, a rich ecosystem, and prevents the majority of bugs one would typically find in a distributed system. Given our small team size, infrastructure reliability is crucial, otherwise, maintenance starves innovation. Rust provides us with confidence that any code modification or refactor is likely to produce working programs that will run for months with minimal supervision. - xAI team.