Filestash [1] was born after the infamous FTP top answer on the Dropbox launch [2]. Trying to understand why we couldn't have nice things made on top of FTP, I

Filestash [1] was born after the infamous FTP top answer on the Dropbox launch [2]. Trying to understand why we couldn't have nice things made on top of FTP, I came out with this interface: type IBackend interface { Ls(path string) ([]os.FileInfo, error) Cat(path string) (io.ReadCloser, error) Mkdir(path string) error Rm(path string) error Mv(from string, to string) error Save(path string, file io.Reader) error Touch(path string) error } and once I had the UI working nice for FTP, I made it work for every possible file transfer protocol: S3, SFTP, NFS, SMB, WebDAV, Dropbox, Google Drive, ..... [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863