IPFS : Architecture and Decentralization
Decentralization and Content-based addressing represent a significant advancement in the development of stable, scalable, censorship-resistant systems. They require a remarkable amount of architectural thinking to work effectively. The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is an umbrella project covering a cornucopia of extremely well designed layers that will prop up and extend the Web in many new directions. Come here about a future that looks a little bit like combining the Web with Git, Bittorrent, Self-certifying file systems, Distributed Hash Tables and more.
We will discuss the architectural layers of this approach and what each brings to the table.
About Brian Sletten
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.
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