Collaborative File Systems - Ben Foxall at LNUG 107 - Sept 2024

Modern browsers have powerful APIs for accessing local files. In this talk, we'll explore these capabilities and how we can combine them with peer-to-peer networking to share capabilities between devices and push edge compute further down to local devices.

Topics covered:

File System Access CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) Origin Private File System WebRTC Edge compute

You can find slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M7U8SuN-OmLri0EuzFuhKQgUXDi_l-bZolAKlkqz9gc/edit?usp=sharing

And some things I showed: https://benjaminbenben.com/hex https://benjaminbenben.com/ycode https://benjaminbenben.com/opfs https://prpc.netlify.app/

All source on my github repos: https://github.com/benfoxall?tab=repositories

Ben Foxall leads the Robot Web team at Wayve, bringing extensive experience in cutting-edge web technologies and their applications in robotics