Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System

• Freenet

  74 987 9.7 Java

  Freenet REference Daemon

  

Minus the cryptocurrency part, Freenet has been doing this for 22 years https://freenetproject.org/

• ipfs-embed

  2 331 2.2 Rust

  A small embeddable ipfs implementation

  

In recent years there has been a large growth of alternative IPFS implementations. Partly because of different needs, partly because of unhappiness with the performance and reliability of the go-ipfs implementation.

At my previous company actyx.com we wrote our own ipfs implementation in rust called ipfs-embed ( https://github.com/ipfs-rust/ipfs-embed ) that serves as the storage for our distributed event sourcing system. It is used in production and is reliable.

The user of an Actyx deployment will not notice in any way that they are using ipfs in the background.

There are also some other interesting developments involving ipfs and rust. See a list of implementations here:

https://docs.ipfs.tech/basics/ipfs-implementations/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• bee

  44 1,435 9.3 Go

  Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data.

  

There is a project called Swarm that does exactly this.

https://www.ethswarm.org

(Disclosure: I am working on the project)

• ipfs-cluster

  14 1,450 7.5 Go

  Pinset orchestration for IPFS

  

• lotus

  11 2,767 9.9 Go

  Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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