Categoria: GuardianDB
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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 WillSearch 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,…