THE VIDEO SHELF · upspin file sharing
Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike
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 HN readers recommended it
Cited as the talk that introduced Upspin, and called fascinating and really good by commenters.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The Go Programming Language
- Topic
- upspin file sharing
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Rob Pike explains this manifesto in several videos available on YouTube: [VIDEO] It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it. I hope you do too!
hawkinsw on Hacker News · 2017-10
In The Upspin manifesto: On the ownership and sharing of data (2014)If you want to see more on this theme, the Upspin docs[1] are a really interesting read. This 2017 talk[2] that Rob Pike gave on it is also really good. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]
iamevn on Hacker News · 2021-03
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