Local Relay Backfill Experiments - 3/11/2026 Today I started thinking more seriously about using my local relay (running strfry in Docker) as a **performance optimization layer**. Right now Continuum can rebuild the archive from: 1. The deterministic archive repo 2. Multiple public relays 3. Local cached data But a **locally running relay** opens another interesting possibility. If I backfill the relay with all of my existing events (700+ articles and 500+ notes), the relay effectively becomes a **local event index**. That means: • startup reads could be faster • queries could be simpler • archive rebuilds might become optional The open question is performance. Is reading from a local relay faster than rebuilding from the archive? The only way to know is to test it. This isn't urgent, but it's an intriguing direction.