GPN19:Foundations for Decentralization: Data with IPLD

Ein Vortrag von Eric Myhre auf der GPN19.

Do you wish building decentralized systems was easier? That building content-addressable storage for application data was simple? That APIs could be well-documented and developed in a way that’s agnostic to the serialization format? That addressing structured data with an immutable hash was just a function call away?

IPLD is making all that happen.

The end goal is that a developer can build an application that’s like “the next git” – or something even more ambitious and similarly decentralized – and with the IPLD libraries in hand, it should take hours instead of weeks.

Come hear about:

• The IPLD Format layer – how we make JSON, CBOR, and other formats interchangeable (and how you can bring your own);
• The IPLD Data Model – how we define canonical hashing over all the formats IPLD supports;
• and The IPLD Schema System – how we define some simple, and optional, but incredibly useful standards for typing structured data: both for making data validation easier, making schema evolution possible, and making a clear road for advanced operations like deterministic sharding for large dataset support.

We’re building both specs and library implementations (starting in Go, Java, and JS); this talk will show some example snippets.

In comparison to existing systems, you can think of it like: Protobuf schemas and graphQL queries had a baby, but rather than being built entirely for big-enterprise needs, it’s got native support for both human-readable of JSON and fast binary message formats like CBOR; it’s built for people of the “bazaar” rather than the “cathedral”; and we’re Apache2/MIT licensed FOSS through and through.