Create programmatic testnet traffic

[ra0x3]

This issue is written within the context of the indexer specifically but could be expanded to include other ecosystem projects (e.g., Fuel Client) that would benefit from simulated traffic

Context

• So far on beta-4 testnet, the overwhelming majority of blocks only have a single transaction
• This is generally fine, but makes it hard to see how our services (i.e., the indexer) performs under what would be a successful mainnet load (lots of transactions, lots of receipts in transactions, etc)
• It would be great if we could "push a button" and programmatically simulate somewhat authentic successful mainnet traffic

The issue

• The TX volume on beta-4 (and on future beta deployments, especially at the beginning) is low to the point where we're not using this time to get a good look at how our indexer service performs under real load (e.g., 50 transactions in a block)

Proposed Solution

• We should create some script that will programmatically create, and emit blocks and transactions that are packed with data to simulate a "real world" mainnet
• Some things to keep in mind:
  • We might want to use our best guess to pack these blocks & transactions with a distribution of data (e.g., receipts) that looks similar to what we'd see in the real world

Deliverable

• A simple script that we can run from the command line to generate this data
  • This script would run for some given amount of time and eventually stop
  • This script would only be run on testnets

[ra0x3]

@Voxelot

• As we discussed, I'm happy to lead the charge on this, but not sure in which project I should put this issue.
• I thought about putting it in sway-applications but thought that was for public projects whereas this would be an internal Fuel project.
• Feel free to let me know and I can move this issue and get the conversation started :)

[ra0x3]

CC @digorithm

@digorithm, @Voxelot mentioned you were working on an SDK environment or something? Could you paste any relevant links here?

[ra0x3]

@lostman We can keep track of this work in this issue, I'll re-assign to you

[lostman]

Thank you 🙏