[HN Gopher] A peer-to-peer and Node.js cloud
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A peer-to-peer and Node.js cloud
Author : janandonly
Score : 44 points
Date : 2021-10-19 11:05 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (atek.cloud)
(TXT) w3m dump (atek.cloud)
| pfraze wrote:
| Oh Atek is not ready for HN yet. If you saw the spork tool
| yesterday [1], that's as far as we've gotten.
|
| On "What is it." Suppose you set up a server on your home LAN.
| Great: what can it do? Unless you configure DDNS or a static IP
| or similar, it can only serve apps to your LAN. What if your
| friend also had a home server and we could get them to connect
| and send messages, share files, etc? You could build some
| applications on that stack which are traditionally on commercial
| clouds.
|
| So Atek will be something like a personal PaaS that's consumer-
| friendly. The p2p tech is to make the apps on that PaaS socially
| connective with each other.
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| 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28915872
| mftb wrote:
| That is a great idea. Thanks for the clarification.
| erulabs wrote:
| Hey, looks neat! We're building something similar, but not
| Node.js specific, over at https://kubesail.com
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| I'll be keeping an eye on this project!
| janandonly wrote:
| What is Atek?
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| Atek is a personal cloud for small home servers like Raspberry
| Pis. It uses peer-to-peer tech to turn NodeJS programs into
| private, self-hosted Web apps with privacy and global
| connectivity.
| Moghammed wrote:
| I still have no idea what Atek is.
| jve wrote:
| That right there is something useless a sales person may tell
| you. Means nothing for techie.
|
| Luckily there is architecture doc we can dig into:
| https://atek.cloud/docs/manual/dev/architecture
| chrisweekly wrote:
| Thanks for sharing that! It's a very well-written doc, and
| IMHO it managed to describe a compelling architecture for the
| aspects of "web 3.0" that _don't_ scream scammy hype
| blockchain bitcoin bs. I'm actually interested!
| skeletron wrote:
| I read all that and I still don't see what the purpose of
| this is.
| option_greek wrote:
| Its to help people develop p2p applications in a stack
| that's popular without understanding inner workings of
| usual p2p technologies. Using this people can create p2p
| applications that much easily without needing to host them
| somewhere. All the advantages of p2p applications apply
| here while reducing the complexity of development.
| kixiQu wrote:
| Built on top of Hypercore by the same devs as Beaker browser? You
| have my attention!
|
| Seriously, this kind of thing is real cool.
| canada_dry wrote:
| Great concept and well executed - the documentation is very good
| https://atek.cloud/docs/manual/index
| [deleted]
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