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Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike

The Go Programming Language · 50.3K views · 2017-06-22 · 31:18

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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.

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Cited as the talk that introduced Upspin, and called fascinating and really good by commenters.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2025

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hawkinsw · 2017-10 · Strong recommendation

Rob Pike explains this manifesto in several videos available on YouTube: [VIDEO] It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it. I hope you do too!

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iamevn · 2021-03 · Recommendation

If you want to see more on this theme, the Upspin docs[1] are a really interesting read. This 2017 talk[2] that Rob Pike gave on it is also really good. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

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pbohun · 2025-02 · Reference

This saddens me because I think the concept behind Upspin is powerful. Is it really that much of a resource drain to drop the key server? I imagine it could run on a $10/mo VPS. This is the talk that introduced Upspin: [VIDEO]

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