Oredev — web3 · •Cofounder/CTO at Fission • •PLT & VMs •Previously an Ethereum Core Dev •EIPs 615, 902, 1066, 1444 •ECIP 1050 •Now spending a lot of time with IPFS

U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S

F O R A P O S T - S E R V E R L E S S F U T U R E

S U B S T R A T E

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B R O O K LY N Z E L E N K A , @ e x p e d eA U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

• Cofounder/CTO at Fission

• https://fission.codes

• PLT & VMs

• Previously an Ethereum Core Dev

• EIPs 615, 902, 1066, 1444

• ECIP 1050

• Now spending a lot of time with IPFS & DIDs

• Lots of R&D (but still have to deal with segfaults, &c)

B R O O K LY N Z E L E N K A , @ e x p e d eA U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

TA L K G O A L SA U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

TA L K G O A L S

• Be as fringe as this track gets 😛🤭

• Expose you to a lot of ideas in broad strokes

• Nothing that’s science fiction!

• A peek at what's coming in the next 2-5 years

A U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

TA L K G O A L S






TA L K G O A L S






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PA R A D I G M W AV E SA U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

PA R A D I G M W AV E S

C O N TA I N E R S



C O N TA I N E R S



C O N TA I N E R S S E R V E R L E S S

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C O N TA I N E R S S E R V E R L E S S U N I V E R S A L

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N AT I V E S D K F O R T H E W E BA U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E







U P S H O T ?A U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

U P S H O T ?

• Go from zero to production on a plane ✈

• Move data to compute and vice versa 🔄

• Scale linearly 📈

• Serve areas that lack sufficient cloud hardware 🖥

• Anyone can be a service provider (lower bar to entry) 💁/


W H Y N O W ?A U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

W H Y N O W ?

Social & Business

• Licensing innovation (yes, really)

• Data ethics

• Platform lock-in & profiteering


W H Y N O W ?

Social & Business

• Licensing innovation (yes, really)

• Data ethics

• Platform lock-in & profiteering


Technical

• Commons infrastructure

• Content addressing

• Cryptographic advancements

• Distributed computing advancements

• Universality (location, provider, & time independence)

W H Y N O T N O W ?A U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

W H Y N O T N O W ?A U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

C O M M O N S I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

C O M M O N S I N F R A S T R U C T U R E🤝 A S U B S T R A T E F O R E V E R Y O N E 🌍

T E D L E U N G ( 2 0 0 5 )

Lots of people work on it, everybody benefits from it, and then people can build upon it (even in a revenue generating fashion)

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O P E N S O U R C EC O M M O N S I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

Lots of people work on it, everybody benefits from it, people can build upon it (even in a revenue generating fashion),

and it’s “owned” by everyone.

By participating — even with competitive goals — you are cooperating by serving the content and running compute of others.

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C O M M O N S I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

O P E N N E T W O R K S

I P F S P R I M E R

I P F S P R I M E R🕸 M E E T T H E C O N T E N T - A D D R E S S A B L E W E B 👋

I N T E R P L A N E TA R Y F I L E S Y S T E MI P F S P R I M E R

I N T E R P L A N E TA R Y F I L E S Y S T E MI P F S P R I M E R

I P F S P R I M E R

I N T E R P L A N E TA R Y F I L E S Y S T E M

I P F S P R I M E R

I N T E R P L A N E TA R Y F I L E S Y S T E M

T H E W E B T O D AYI P F S P R I M E R

T H E W E B T O D AY

• Predominantly single-source (per file) server/client

I P F S P R I M E R



• Like a key/value store {ip => {path => content}}

I P F S P R I M E R




• “Location addressing”

• DNS maps names to IP addresses

• Focused on the physical network P H YS I CA L LO CAT I O N

V I RT UA L A D D R E S S

I P F S P R I M E R




• “Location addressing”

• DNS maps names to IP addresses

• Focused on the physical network

• Mutable addressing

• www.foo.com/baz may be JSON today, but a video tomorrow

• …or altered content

P H YS I CA L LO CAT I O N


I P F S P R I M E R

C O N T E N T A D D R E S S I N G



I P F S P R I M E R


• A layer of abstraction above location

C O N T E N T I D



I P F S P R I M E R



• Like a key/value store {hash(content) => content}

• Content hash AKA “content identifier” or CID

• Special “universal” relationship to content

C O N T E N T I D



I P F S P R I M E R






• Focused on the data

C O N T E N T I D



I P F S P R I M E R







• Does not care where it lives

C O N T E N T I D



I P F S P R I M E R







• Does not care where it lives

• Still have paths

• Immutable DAG

• Why no loops?

C O N T E N T I D



I P F S P R I M E R

L I N K E D D ATAI P F S P R I M E R

L I N K E D D ATA

{ Qm123456…: { data: “Hello world”, links: [ {name: “company”, hash: Qmabcdef…} {name: “license”, hash: Qmzyxwvu…} ] }}

I P F S P R I M E R

L I N K E D D ATA


{ Qmabcdef…: { data: “FISSION”, links: [ {name: “city”, hash: Qm1gb5sn…}, {name: “about”, hash: Qmzyxwvu…} ] }}

I P F S P R I M E R

L I N K E D D ATA


{ Qmabcdef…: { data: “FISSION”, links: [ {name: “city”, hash: Qm1gb5sn…}, {name: “about”, hash: Qmzyxwvu…} ] }}

ipfs cat /ipfs/Qm123456…/company/about/founder => “Brooke”

I P F S P R I M E R

R O U T I N G & L O O K U P 🔍🌊I P F S P R I M E R

R O U T I N G & L O O K U P 🔍🌊

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I P F S P R I M E R


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I P F S P R I M E R


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I P F S P R I M E R

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I P F S P R I M E R

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I P F S P R I M E R

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I P F S P R I M E R

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I P F S P R I M E R

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I P F S P R I M E R

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I P F S P R I M E R


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I P F S P R I M E R


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I P F S P R I M E R

A U T H E N T I C D ATA ( F I N G E R P R I N T I N G )I P F S P R I M E R

A U T H E N T I C D ATA ( F I N G E R P R I N T I N G )I P F S P R I M E R

O N E H U G E N A M E S PA C E T O R U L E T H E M A L L 💍🌋I P F S P R I M E R

O N E H U G E N A M E S PA C E T O R U L E T H E M A L L 💍🌋

• Same file = same hash

• No matter when 🕓

• No matter where 🌍🌌

• No matter who =🤖?@🦊

I P F S P R I M E R

• Zero file duplication per node

• Replication = CDN-ish features

• Immutable data structures

• Files & data living together!

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O N E H U G E N A M E S PA C E T O R U L E T H E M A L L 💍🌋

• Same file = same hash

• No matter when 🕓

• No matter where 🌍🌌

• No matter who =🤖?@🦊

I P F S P R I M E R

D I D S

D I D S🔑 H I G H LY A U T H E N T I C B

S TA N D A R D I Z AT I O ND I D S

S TA N D A R D I Z AT I O N

• W3C

• Microsoft

• Government of British Columbia

• Based on public-key cryptography

• Truly “universal” UUIDs

• Agnostic about backing

• For users, devices, and more

D I D S

C L A I M SD I D S

C L A I M S

• Principle of least information

• “Can attest that this user is over 18”

• All claims signed with private key

• Age, credentials, country residency, job history, event attendance, …

D I D S

W H AT A B O U T T R A C K I N G , P R I VA C Y, R E C O V E R YD I D S

W H AT A B O U T T R A C K I N G , P R I VA C Y, R E C O V E R Y

• Hierarchical deterministic wallets

D I D S

W H AT A B O U T T R A C K I N G , P R I VA C Y, R E C O V E R Y

• Hierarchical deterministic wallets

• Keychains

• Generally on a blockchain

• Some cases on DNS

D I D S

S E L F - S O V E R E I G N I D E N T I T Y ( S S I )D I D S

S E L F - S O V E R E I G N I D E N T I T Y ( S S I )

• Generate your own ID!

D I D S



• As many as you like 🤷

D I D S



• As many as you like 🤷

• Generally use commons infrastructure like a blockchain or DNS

D I D S

P O R T A B L E C O M P U T E

P O R T A B L E C O M P U T E⚡ J U S T A D D M O R E P O W E R T O J S & W A S M A N D S T I R 🤖

D Y N A M I C FA A SP O R TA B L E C O M P U T E

D Y N A M I C FA A S

• Run everything locally by default

• Good for devs with powerful machines

• Slow for students with Chromebooks

P O R TA B L E C O M P U T E





• Farm out longer running computation to service providers

• …dynamically at runtime






• Farm out longer running computation to service providers

• …dynamically at runtime

• Heavy compute, parallel workloads, &c


A P P R O A C H & T R A D E - O F F SP O R TA B L E C O M P U T E

A P P R O A C H & T R A D E - O F F S

• Code-as-data

• Memoization

• Compiler techniques at web scale (“world computer”)

• Network latency (normally zero, now x)

• Restricted subset (e.g. total)

• Event-based w/ two-phase commit

• Trusted (incl. AWS Lambda 🤷)


T O TA L I T YP O R TA B L E C O M P U T E


Side Effects

Pure Functions

E


Side Effects

Pure Functions

E


Side Effects

Pure Functions

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E V E N T B A S E D ( A B S T R A C T U S E R S T R E A M , C R D T S )P O R TA B L E C O M P U T E


Off-Platform Side Effect Stream

Platform Effect Stream

Pure Function Stream

Base Event Stream





Base Event Stream





Base Event Stream





Base Event Stream





Base Event Stream





Base Event Stream





Base Event Stream

E N C R Y P T E D C O M P U T E

E N C R Y P T E D C O M P U T E🙈 T R U S T L E S S D LY S E N D , R U N , & V E R I F Y 💌

Z E R O - K N O W L E D G E P R O O F SE N C R Y P T E D C O M P U T E




🏥 ✴ 🐶

🏥😛 😅

😭

🙆

✴😅

😻😭

👋😻

😛

🌳

🏥🙆

😭🙆

✴ 😅😻

👋

😭 🌳

👋

🙆 ✴

🌳

🐶 😻

🏥

🌳

😻

🐶


🏥 ✴ 🐶

🏥😛 😅

😭

🙆

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😻😭

👋😻

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• Verify compute result

• Reveal no information

• Interesting for trustless compute providers

C O M P U T I N G O V E R E N C R Y P T E D D ATAE N C R Y P T E D C O M P U T E

Cleartext Cyphertext

Clear Result Encrypted Result

encrypt

encrypt

compute’compute

L I C E N S I N G I N N O V A T I O N

L I C E N S I N G I N N O V A T I O N⚖ F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E I N 1 5 Y E A R S !

W H Y N O W ?L I C E N S E I N N O VAT I O N

W H Y N O W ?

• Cloud providers making record profits on top of FLOSS projects

L I C E N S E I N N O VAT I O N

W H Y N O W ?


• e.g. Mongo relicensing


W H Y N O W ?



• Why does macOS Catalina ship with zsh instead of bash?


W H Y N O W ?



• Why does macOS Catalina ship with zsh instead of bash?


A S A S H I E L D 🛡L I C E N S E I N N O VAT I O N

A S A S H I E L D 🛡

• Do you think current licenses are the best we’ll ever have?


A S A S H I E L D 🛡

• Do you think current licenses are the best we’ll ever have?

• Anti 996-License-1.0

• Derived from MIT License

• Chinese expression “996.ICU”


D ATA E T H I C S / D ATA L I C E N S E SL I C E N S E I N N O VAT I O N

D ATA E T H I C S / D ATA L I C E N S E S

• In 2001, people stored credit card details directly in their DB

• Why do people think it’s okay to store PII?

• These techniques & platforms make it so you can’t touch user data!


M A K I N G L I F E E A S I E R

M A K I N G L I F E E A S I E R🧱 P U T T I N G I T A L L T O G E T H E R 🥳

T H E N E X T W AV E O F P L AT F O R M SM A K I N G L I F E E A S I E R

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Sto

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T H E N E X T W AV E O F P L AT F O R M S

D ATA B AS E 🛢F I L E S 📄


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I D E N T I T Y 🙋 C H E C K P O I N TS 🕚


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I D E N T I T Y 🙋 C H E C K P O I N TS 🕚

D I ST R I B U T E D C O M P U T E 🖥 S M A RT C O N T R ACTS 📝


R E C A PA U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

R E C A PA U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

• Build and use fully locally

• No such thing as "deployment"

• Zero config

• Default: only serve the app, not data

• Efficient bandwidth

R E C A P

• One login for all accounts

• Device-based authentication

• Military-grade security

• User owned data

• Share nothing with site/app by default

• Flexible FaaS without pre-deployment

• Offline-first and local-network aware


• Build and use fully locally

• No such thing as "deployment"

• Zero config

• Default: only serve the app, not data

• Efficient bandwidth

T H E E N D O F H I S T O R YA U N I V E R S A L H O S T L E S S S U B S T R AT E

T H E E N D O F H I S T O R Y

Commodity / UtilityCustom Product / Rental

High Touch

Invisible




High Touch

Invisible


Barrier to Entry


Bespoke

Private Ownership

Shared Hosting

Serverless

Universal


High Touch

Invisible


Barrier to Entry

b ro o k l y n @ f i s s i o n .c o d e s g i t h u b .c o m /ex p e d e

@ ex p e d e

Y T H A N K Y O U , M A L M Ö 🎉

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Oredev — web3 · •Cofounder/CTO at Fission • •PLT & VMs •Previously an Ethereum Core Dev •EIPs 615, 902, 1066, 1444 •ECIP 1050 •Now spending a lot of time with IPFS