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How viable is IPFS for streamed/pub-sub styles of data transfer? Is there prior art in that space? I've been really curious about diving into writing an IPFS ap
by ilikehurdles 8y ago
How viable is IPFS for streamed/pub-sub styles of data transfer? Is there prior art in that space? I've been really curious about diving into writing an IPFS application to get to learn my way around it, and the concept I would really like to learn with involves users uploading chunks of data and a server broadcasting it to subscribers.
Sorry for such a rudimentary question. Literally just learned about IPFS this week.
- wk0 8y agoThere are two 'code-along' style videos on the IPFS youtube page I found helpful IPFS PubSub Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv_Teb--1zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv_Teb--1zg Google Docs esque clone with CDRTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdx8rJd8rQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdx8rJd8rQ Theres also a pubsub room example on the ipfs-shipyard github: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-pubsub-room https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-pubsub-room
- WhatIsDukkha 8y agoReading this medium piece https://medium.com/revotic/streaming-with-ipfs-2145e6df5a4e https://medium.com/revotic/streaming-with-ipfs-2145e6df5a4e You'd use normal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming And merely use IPFS urls for each file piece. Whether its that simple in practice...