Aether: Distributing Social Networks Without Distributed Consensus
Channel: Our Networks
Date: 29/09/2018

This talk explores a different way of building networks that does not depend on distributed consensus. By making a small number of tradeoffs, it is possible to build a network that can scale to 10^3x the speed in inserting new data and distributing it. Aether is one such attempt, and both it and the underlying protocol is open source. This talk will focus on how it ended up coming to be, why, and how it works, and what you can build with the underlying protocol.

Aether: https://www.getaether.net

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Timestamps (Thanks SnowCode!)

00:00 - Introduction
8:14 - Data persistence
13:06 - Graph compiler and network topology
14:54 - Data distribution
18:05 - Missing data
19:52 - Delayed data
22:15 - Peering
24:25 - Platform specific concerns
28:50 - End