How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch (opens in new tab)

This article outlines how three engineers built a p2p file sharing network from scratch, and what they learned along the way.

It's a great high level primer if you're curious about how distributed hash tables or sharding works.

Absolutely amazing article. Where can I get work like this where I get to design distributed systems from scratch ?

someone should add "2017" somewhere to this

Is it P2P but not decentralized because clients get metadata from supernode1.xorro-p2p.com?

I'm working through the first set of Cryptopals so I appreciate the discussion of XOR distance here. Wondered if xorro referred to the XOR operation, now I know. Thanks for sharing

distributed != decentralized

Why use SHA1 if you’re building it from scratch?

this is so interesting thanks for writing about it. I also want to do something in this space and this is a great resource.

Great article