I'm 18 minutes in and I have no idea what they're actually doing.
I get what they seem to think they're doing.
But "storing arbitrary" data is a problem everyone in the world is trying to solve. It's what a filesystem is. It's what backup tools do. It's a pretty well attacked problem.
A bunch of SHA1 hash addressed data is almost as useless as a raw disk with no filesystem.
Similarly, I'm seeing a lot of JSON. Who says JSON will be remembering in 80 years? It's ASCII! But that's not much of a guarantee.
There's a lot of claims here, which don't seem to translate into something which seems actually useful. For example, "immutable" sounds good till you run out of disk space because you have 1000 copies of a sightly different VM image in the system. It's pretty easy to build a system which stores "everything". It's a lot harder to build one which is useful.
I get what they seem to think they're doing.
But "storing arbitrary" data is a problem everyone in the world is trying to solve. It's what a filesystem is. It's what backup tools do. It's a pretty well attacked problem.
A bunch of SHA1 hash addressed data is almost as useless as a raw disk with no filesystem.
Similarly, I'm seeing a lot of JSON. Who says JSON will be remembering in 80 years? It's ASCII! But that's not much of a guarantee.
There's a lot of claims here, which don't seem to translate into something which seems actually useful. For example, "immutable" sounds good till you run out of disk space because you have 1000 copies of a sightly different VM image in the system. It's pretty easy to build a system which stores "everything". It's a lot harder to build one which is useful.