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Arjuna Sky Kok
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Arjuna Sky Kok has experience more than 10 years in expressing himself as a software engineer. He has developed web applications using Symfony, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, and Django. He also has built mobile applications on top of Android and iOS platforms. Currently, he is researching Ethereum technology. Other than that, he teaches Android and iOS programming to students. He graduated from Bina Nusantara University with majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. He always strives to become a holistic person by enjoying leisure activities, such as dancing Salsa, learning French, and playing StarCraft 2. He lives quietly in the bustling city of Jakarta. In loving memory of my late brother, Hengdra Santoso (1979-2011).
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The motivation behind IPFS

IPFS is not a normal filesystem, such as fat32, ntfs, or ext3. It is more similar to Dropbox. It is a cross-device filesystem. You can save a file in this filesystem and people around the world can access it as easily as if the file were on their own computer. If Ethereum can be thought of as the world's singleton operating system, IPFS can be considered as the world's singleton storage!

The slogan of the IPFS website is IPFS is the Distributed Web. IPFS tries to replace, or at least supplement, HTTP. The HTTP protocol has served us for a long time, over 20 years, but it is not considered sufficient for upcoming challenges, such as increasing bandwidth demands or redundancy of files. HTTP uses a client-server model. You can only choose one of these two roles: either to be a server or a client.

There are a couple of problems with this architecture...

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Arjuna Sky Kok has experience more than 10 years in expressing himself as a software engineer. He has developed web applications using Symfony, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, and Django. He also has built mobile applications on top of Android and iOS platforms. Currently, he is researching Ethereum technology. Other than that, he teaches Android and iOS programming to students. He graduated from Bina Nusantara University with majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. He always strives to become a holistic person by enjoying leisure activities, such as dancing Salsa, learning French, and playing StarCraft 2. He lives quietly in the bustling city of Jakarta. In loving memory of my late brother, Hengdra Santoso (1979-2011).
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