In addition to the standard subgraph development experience, Goldsky offers
numerous developer experience improvements. Specifically: 1. Webhooks:
Enable efficient, instant, push-based communication and eliminate the need
for API polling or manual data retrieval. This enables realtime
notifications, data synchronization, and numerous other use cases. 2.
Instant subgraphs: Index contract data without a single line of code,
allowing developers to explore contracts with ease, and for non-technical
users to work with blockchains more easily. 3. Tags: A ground-up rethink
of subgraph endpoint management that allows you to seamlessly update your
front-end interfaces with zero downtime or stale data.
Improved reliability and performance
Goldsky proxies all data ingestion through an advanced load balancer with
over 20+ RPC endpoints and automatically prioritizes between them based on
latency, time of day, historical responsiveness, and more. This means that
Goldsky indexes data more quickly, and with greater uptime reliability than
the alternatives.
Custom chain support
On a dedicated indexing instance, Goldsky offers the ability to add custom
RPC endpoints for any EVM-compatible chain with no downtime. This allows you
to work with custom or private blockchains seamlessly.
Integrated with broader data stack
Goldsky helps integrate Subgraph data into your broader infrastructure via
Mirror, providing a level of flexibility and control that is not possible
via API-based solutions. This unlocks more granular data integration,
enabling advanced use cases such as multi-chain subgraphs.
By replicating data into your own database, you can co-locate it alongside
your other app data (product, customer, and any off-chain data). This
eliminates the need for brittle scraping and polling scripts, and simplifies
your front-end queries.
Parallelizable
Mirror workers are parallelizable, enabling unrivaled performance and
throughput. This means that working with large-scale datasets (eg. full
chain replication) is the work of minutes and hours instead of days and
weeks, allowing for faster iteration.
With no token-based payments, your team no longer needs to worry about
fluctuating service costs and operate a token trading desk to pay your
service providers. In additions, Goldsky doesn’t charge any per-query fees,
making our costs and their rate of change highly predictable.
Enterprise-level support
Goldsky offers 24/7 on-call support and has a team of engineering staff
available to assist with debugging, issue resolution, and proactive
management.