It has been about one week of hands-on experience with IPFS. I’m doing this in 30 minute intervals so my learning isn’t progressing super quick. Here’s what I’ve learned so far.
Installing IPFS was relatively easy, though I was hoping that it would have had a brew package for installing on a Mac. Sounds like there are plans for this in the future, perhaps when it stabilizes a bit more and hits v1.0. I found it interesting that the recommended IPFS implementation for install is written in Go.
IPFS has pretty nice getting started documentation. However, I ran into issues right off the bat because my laptop was connected to a network with very tight restrictions. It appeared that everything launched successfully. I was given no errors in the terminal, things just didn’t work. I then tried connecting to a more open hotspot and was able to get a bit further, but I still couldn’t complete the first getting started tasks successfully.
My next attempt was to fire up a micro server in EC2, install and try things out there. This worked much better. I was able to find peers and was able to serve up a file which was found on the gateway. I’m making progress, but I still have a ton to learn. I’m just scratching the surface.
I believe protocols like IPFS will gain traction and will become a core part of our future Internet experience. The following video makes some very compelling arguments.
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