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Introducing the revolutionary Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies by Andy Oram - a comprehensive guide to unlocking the transformative potential of decentralized networks.

Peer-to-Peer delves into the intricacies of decentralized systems, empowering you to harness their transformative power and create innovative solutions that reshape industries and empower individuals. Through expert insights and real-world examples, this book will equip you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of distributed technologies.

Discover the fundamental principles of peer-to-peer networks, including their architecture, protocols, and consensus mechanisms. Explore the diverse applications of decentralized technologies, from blockchain-based cryptocurrencies to distributed file storage and beyond. Understand the challenges and opportunities associated with peer-to-peer systems, and learn how to mitigate risks and maximize their benefits.

Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and leverage the transformative potential of decentralized networks. Whether you're a developer, entrepreneur, or simply curious about the future of technology, this book will provide you with the insights and knowledge you need to thrive in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Embark on a journey into the world of peer-to-peer networks and unlock the power to create a more connected, resilient, and equitable future for all.


The term "peer-to-peer" has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project. Even more interesting than the systems' technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in various ways they return content, choice, and control to ordinary users.

While this book is mostly about the technical promise of peer-to-peer, we also talk about its exciting social promise. Communities have been forming on the Internet for a long time, but they have been limited by the flat interactive qualities of email and Network newsgroups. People can exchange recommendations and ideas over these media, but have great difficulty commenting on each other's postings, structuring information, performing searches, or creating summaries. If tools provided ways to organize information intelligently, and if each person could serve up his or her own data and retrieve others' data, the possibilities for collaboration would take off. Peer-to-peer technologies along with metadata could enhance almost any group of people who share an interest--technical, cultural, political, medical, you name it.

This book presents the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found. Learn here the essentials of peer-to-peer from leaders of the field:

  • Nelson Minar and Marc Hedlund of target="new">Popular Power, on a history of peer-to-peer
  • Clay Shirky of acceleratorgroup, on where peer-to-peer is likely to be headed
  • Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Associates, on redefining the public's perceptions
  • Dan Bricklin, cocreator of Visicalc, on harvesting information from end-users
  • David Anderson of SETI@home, on how SETI@Home created the world's largest computer
  • Jeremie Miller of Jabber, on the Internet as a collection of conversations
  • Gene Kan of Gnutella and GoneSilent.com, on lessons from Gnutella for peer-to-peer technologies
  • Adam Langley of Freenet, on Freenet's present and upcoming architecture
  • Alan Brown of Red Rover, on a deliberately low-tech content distribution system
  • Marc Waldman, Lorrie Cranor, and Avi Rubin of AT&T Labs, on the Publius project and trust in distributed systems
  • Roger Dingledine, Michael J. Freedman, andDavid Molnar of Free Haven, on resource allocation and accountability in distributed systems
  • Rael Dornfest of O'Reilly Network and Dan Brickley of ILRT/RDF Web, on metadata
  • Theodore Hong of Freenet, on performance
  • Richard Lethin of Reputation Technologies, on how reputation can be built on Author: Oram, Andy Publisher: O'Reilly Media Illustration: n Language: ENG Title: Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies Pages: 00450 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00450 (Encrypted PDF) On Sale: 2015-09-30 SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596001100 Lib Category: Local area networks (Computer networks) Lib Category: Disruptive technologies Category: Computers : Social Aspects - Human-Computer Interaction Category: Computers : Networking - General Category: Computers : Networking - Local Area Networks (LANs)