Why Migrate to HyperBEAM?

Migrating processes from legacynet to HyperBEAM is essential for leveraging significant advancements in performance, features, and developer experience on AO.

HyperBEAM is a new, more robust foundation for decentralized applications on AO, offering several key advantages:

• Enhanced Performance: Built on an architecture optimized for concurrency, HyperBEAM provides faster message scheduling and more responsive applications.
• Direct State Access: HyperBEAM allows processes to expose their state directly via HTTP. This enables immediate reads of your process's data, eliminating the need for dry-run messages which were a common performance bottleneck.
• Easy Extensibility: It allows core feature extensibility through modular devices.

The most impactful change when migrating is the ability to expose parts of your process state for immediate reading. This dramatically improves the performance of web frontends and data-driven services.

To learn how to implement this, see Exposing Process State.