Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike
What it is
Rob Pike presents Upspin at Gopherfest 2017, an experimental framework for naming and sharing files and data securely and uniformly across a global namespace. It is a project written in Go rather than about Go.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the talk that introduced Upspin, and called fascinating and really good by commenters.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2017, last 2025
What HN commenters said
“It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it.”
Rob Pike explains the Upspin manifesto
hawkinsw, 2017-10 · Strong recommendation · in “The Upspin manifesto: On the ownership and sharing of data (2014)”
“This 2017 talk[2] that Rob Pike gave on it is also really good.”
Rob Pike's 2017 talk on Upspin
iamevn, 2021-03 · Recommendation · in “Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers””
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: upspin, rob pike, golang, secure sharing, naming systems
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