I gave this talk on the current-generation Freenet: a ground-up redesign focused on real-time decentralized applications rather than a static datastore.
My understanding (so far, I'm halfway through the second of your recorded presentations) is that the data in the network is ephemeral, held only by active peers who are hosting a contract (and thus its state).
Does that mean that if all peers hosting a given contract go offline is the state completely lost? Now what happens if a formerly offline peer starts hosting the contract with an outdated state? Does that just become the new state?
I guess I'm not 100% clear on how data persistence works. Do we entirely forgo databases and instead encode everything into the contract state?
Some more examples of comparisons to existing application infrastructure would be immensely helpful to fill in the gaps of understanding. I'll likely be writing a few articles myself once I better understand everything.
sanity|22 days ago
Happy to answer questions.
Zetaphor|21 days ago
Does that mean that if all peers hosting a given contract go offline is the state completely lost? Now what happens if a formerly offline peer starts hosting the contract with an outdated state? Does that just become the new state?
I guess I'm not 100% clear on how data persistence works. Do we entirely forgo databases and instead encode everything into the contract state?
Some more examples of comparisons to existing application infrastructure would be immensely helpful to fill in the gaps of understanding. I'll likely be writing a few articles myself once I better understand everything.