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🔗 Cross-Program Invocation (CPI)

Learn to compose programs together using secure cross-program calls.

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Advanced Concepts

This section covers sophisticated techniques for professional Solana development:

Cross-Program Invocation (CPI)

  • Program Composability: Building modular program architectures
  • Secure Invocations: Best practices for calling other programs
  • Data Passing: Efficient parameter and return value handling
  • Error Propagation: Handling failures across program boundaries

Program Derived Addresses (PDAs)

  • Deterministic Addresses: Creating predictable account addresses
  • Seed Management: Organizing and validating PDA seeds
  • Authority Patterns: Implementing program-controlled accounts
  • Storage Optimization: Efficient PDA-based data structures

Security Patterns

  • Access Control: Implementing robust permission systems
  • Reentrancy Protection: Preventing recursive attack vectors
  • Integer Overflow Prevention: Safe arithmetic operations
  • Account Validation: Comprehensive input sanitization

Performance Optimization

  • Compute Unit Management: Optimizing instruction complexity
  • Memory Efficiency: Minimizing account data usage
  • Batch Operations: Reducing transaction overhead
  • State Compression: Advanced data compression techniques

Production Readiness

Topics essential for deploying to mainnet:

  • Testing Strategies: Comprehensive test coverage patterns
  • Deployment Procedures: Safe upgrade and migration strategies
  • Monitoring: Program health and performance tracking
  • Maintenance: Long-term program lifecycle management

Each topic includes production examples, security considerations, and performance benchmarks.