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Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike

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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

  1. “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)”

  2. “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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