This would be for a production service, most of the coding is done, just need to get synced so I can start pushing events. So, it's not really test data that I need, I would like to get up and running on mainnet as soon as I can, but syncing in a container on a VM is slow (I accept that, this is the env I have to run on for now).
So, I'm looking to figure out how I can either 1) sync faster (or smarter) or 2) get the latest block and transaction events from a different source (eg. ZMQ and connecting with the public nodes) while I wait for my slow sync to finish after which I will switch to my wrapped node solution