Autor: wmaslonek
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Guardians Sponsorship Program
Today, we take an important step in the history of GuardianDB with the official launch of the Guardians Sponsorship Program. GuardianDB has always been designed as a resilient, local-first system, built with strong technical care. Until now, all of this work has been sustained independently. With the start of the sponsorship program, we open a…
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WillSearch on social media!
We’re expanding our communication channels. From now on, WillSearch is officially on Twitter (X), Facebook, and LinkedIn. These spaces will act as meeting points to share updates, technical behind-the-scenes insights, architectural decisions, and important announcements from the projects born here. In particular, everything related to GuardianDB, including evolutions, releases, performance work, and long-term vision. Twitter…
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Absolute refactoring: the largest update so far
Today on the GuardianDB blog we talk about one of the deepest transformations in the entire history of the project: the absolute refactoring behind GuardianDB 0.14.0 “Ironclad”. This is not just about adding features or fixing bugs. We changed paradigms. We rewrote our foundations. We aligned the architecture with a vision of networking that actually…
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GuardianDB 0.14.0 Ironclad
A new core. Simpler, faster, stronger. GuardianDB 0.14.0 Ironclad marks the largest structural change since the beginning of the project. This is not an incremental release. It is a deliberate reconstruction of the foundations, designed to reduce complexity, eliminate inherited layers, and align GuardianDB with a truly local-first, deterministic, and native P2P architecture. Ironclad does…
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The Next Evolution of GuardianDB: Why We Are Replacing IPFS with Iroh
When we started developing GuardianDB, the logical choice for the networking layer seemed obvious: IPFS. It’s the industry standard for decentralization, has a huge ecosystem, and solves the problem of content addressing. However, as we dove deeper into engineering a high-performance peer-to-peer database in Rust, we realized that trying to fit a dynamic database into…
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Migration from libp2p to the Iroh API in the Guardian Ecosystem
The development of modern P2P applications, especially those focused on mobile devices, such as our upcoming “Messenger” project, requires strategic architectural decisions. In GuardianDB, we made the choice to completely remove libp2p’s legacy modules and adopt the Iroh API exclusively from this point forward. libp2p comes at a high cost: large binaries, excessive battery consumption,…
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GuardianEngine is on the way
We’re excited to announce that the GuardianEngine is currently in development, a core component that represents the next generation of intelligent distributed architecture within the WillSearch ecosystem. While GuardianDB provides distributed storage and replication mechanisms, the GuardianEngine will serve as the operational brain, responsible for coordinating communications, decisions, and network-wide processes in an autonomous and…
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What’s New in GuardianDB v0.11.18
We have several important updates coming to GuardianDB, focusing on stability, architectural clarity, and the evolution of the P2P core. Batch Processor fully integrated with the Iroh Backend The batch processor is now fully integrated with the Iroh Backend, enabling faster, more efficient, and more reliable batch operations. This integration also opens the door for…
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GuardianDB is now available on crates.io!
We’re excited to announce that GuardianDB has just been officially published on crates.io, the primary package registry for the Rust community. Starting today, you can integrate GuardianDB into your Rust project with a simple addition: Run the following Cargo command in your project directory: cargo add guardian-db Or add the following line to your Cargo.toml:…
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Logging System Migration (slog → tracing) Completed
During the development of the Iroh backend, the complete migration of the logging system from slog to tracing was finalized. This migration represents a significant modernization of GuardianDB’s observability infrastructure. 1. Performance and Efficiency 2. Advanced Observability 3. Enhanced Integration Implementation in GuardianDB All GuardianDB modules now use the new tracing system, fully replacing the…