IPFS : Architecture and Decentralization

Wednesday, 11:00 AM EST - SUNSET SALON

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

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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