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author | Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de> | 2023-10-13T14·01+0200 |
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committer | flokli <flokli@flokli.de> | 2023-10-16T11·49+0000 |
commit | 8b09ae54b1d635e77c394dd965915479283489a2 (patch) | |
tree | 8b2b1c6580d40acf185296ef182f66165a17410a /users/flokli/presentations/2023-09-13-asg-tvix-store/presentation.md | |
parent | b8ef3e52637fc783ec03b209ce2f4f4a25152a27 (diff) |
feat(users/flokli): add ASG Lightning talk presentation r/6830
This adds the materials for the lightning talk held at All Systems Go Conference 2023, Berlin. Talk lives at https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2023-245-tvix-store Change-Id: I114b1aec9f1953c148dd29ca88888c16b9fc655d Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/9751 Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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diff --git a/users/flokli/presentations/2023-09-13-asg-tvix-store/presentation.md b/users/flokli/presentations/2023-09-13-asg-tvix-store/presentation.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..978934f9a48d --- /dev/null +++ b/users/flokli/presentations/2023-09-13-asg-tvix-store/presentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +--- +author: +- Florian Klink +date: 2023-09-09 +title: "tvix-store: A content-addressed file system and sync protocol" +theme: moon +revealOptions: + transition: 'fade' +--- + +## tvix-store +### A content-addressed file system and sync protocol + +2023-09-13 + +Florian Klink / flokli + +--- + +## Whoami + +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + flokli +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Nix/NixOS contributor + - maintain systemd, nss and more low-level stuff there +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Freelance Nix/DevOps consultant + +Note: more Kubernetes/DevOps exposure with work + +--- + +## What is tvix-store? +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + A new implementation of a content-addressed "storage system" + - <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + part of the Tvix Project, a (WIP) reimplementation of Nix and auxillary components in Rust + - <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Storage model: think about git trees and its Merkle DAG… + - <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + … but with nicer wire format (`.proto`) and hash function (blake3) + +--- + +## Storage model +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Once you know the root: everything else is content-addressed + - <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + No timestamps, no uid/gid, no xattrs, only one way to represent the same tree +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Automatic dedup of identical subtrees in different file system trees +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Automatic dedup of identical blobs (and you can do more chunking underneath too) + +--- + +## Storage model (cont.) +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Granular seekable access into blobs +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + verified streaming thanks to BLAKE3 and Bao, faulty data is detected early on +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Everything below can be retrieved from anyone without having to trust (P2P substitution, CDNs, …) + +--- + +## Usecases +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + File system tree delivery +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Container image delivery +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Backing store for VCS +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Granular access into large datasets + +--- + +## Status +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + In-memory backend, a local K/V backend (Sled) +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + FUSE filesystem +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + A gRPC API to transfer things, bindings for golang and rust +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + some object storage backends in development (GCS, NATS) +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + FUTUREWORK: more storage backends / store composition / in-kernel module? + +Notes: of course you can use your own network protocol too, like HTTP CAS or iroh....plug different stores together to represent caches, blobfs + +--- + +## Contributing + +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Join the IRC channel (`#tvl` on `hackint`), bridged to Matrix and XMPP +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Check our issue tracker +- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> + Try to use it and tell us how you broke it! + +Note: if this sounds useful to you, reach out! + +--- + +# Thanks! + +<style> +.container{ + display: flex; +} +.col{ + flex: 1; +} +</style> + +<div class="container"> + +<div class="col"> +Florian Klink / <a href="https://flokli.de">flokli.de</a><br /> +<img src="qrcode-flokli.svg" /> +</div> + +<div class="col"> +Tvix / <a href="https://tvix.dev">tvix.dev</a><br /> +<img src="qrcode-tvix.svg" /> +</div> + +</div> + +--- + +## Structure + +[tvix-store graph](tvix-store-graph-blob-directory.svg) |