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Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by DyslexicAtheist » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

Kademlia DHT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia...

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by petegordon » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

I’m curious what your goal is. Do you want the complete immutability of transactions like bitcoin/blockchain; or do you want the peer/seed capability like BitTorrent and IPFS with a DHT (Kademlia)? I’d be interested in seeing a good list of the technology choices that can make up a P2P project if anyone knows of one, please share.

But you definitely should checkout IPFS and Kademlia.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by xendipity » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

Dowwie wrote: post #2

How about IPFS? OpenBazaar is an IPFS case study. They recently released a revamped v2 built with Go.

Yeah, I'd look at IPFS's networking library, libp2p. It's the peer-to-peer backbone of IPFS and has a big community and active development https://libp2p.io/. It's also implemented in both go and js (as most of IPFS is)

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by dnomad » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

I2P works well enough.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by adamnemecek » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

malloryerik wrote: post #5

adamnemecek wrote: post #3

Look into crdt it’s the shit for collaborative editing (idk if that’s what you ares looking for tho).

Do you happen to know of a decent and easy-ish crdt library in Go?

Check github there’s plenty.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by eeZah7Ux » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

xendipity wrote: post #13

Dowwie wrote: post #2

How about IPFS? OpenBazaar is an IPFS case study. They recently released a revamped v2 built with Go.

Yeah, I'd look at IPFS's networking library, libp2p. It's the peer-to-peer backbone of IPFS and has a big community and active development https://libp2p.io/ . It's also implemented in both go and js (as most of IPFS is)

The wire protocol is practically almost not documented.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by mcjiggerlog » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 2:30 PM UTC

Maybe check out Dat[0] - especially useful if you need some kind of distributed data store. The main implementation is in Javascript.

[0] https://datproject.org/

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by indescions_2018 » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 2:39 PM UTC

Awesome List of P2P resources:

https://github.com/kgryte/awesome-peer-to-peer

Personal bias tilts to web tech. WebRTC will require you to centrally implement all your peer broker and logic. But take a look at something like Peer5 Video CDN to appreciate scalability:

https://www.peer5.com/

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by cjbprime » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 2:42 PM UTC

WebTorrent.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

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Post by wslh » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 2:47 PM UTC

Re blockchain technologies: while there is an obvious intersection between the world of blockchain and P2P, blockchain technologies are slow because BFT adds many requirements to the game. Basically blockchain technologies use P2P to reach a common state and this could not be necessary in your use case.

You can take a look at OpenBazaar and Particl for P2P implementations.