Awesome P2P

A curated list of awesome P2P learning tutorials and resources.

Table of contents

• Awesome P2P
  • Table of contents
    • Data structures
    • Guides
      • Getting started
      • Network programming
        • Web network programming technologies
      • Distributed systems
    • Libraries
      • Node.js
    • P2P projects
      • File sharing
      • Streaming
      • Crypto currencies

Data structures

• Distributed Hash Table (DHT)
• Merkel Tree
• Blockchain
• Append Only Log (AOL)
  • 📹 Going offline with append only logs - lecture by Mathias Buus - Code Europe Spring 2017

Guides

Getting started

• P2P workswhop

Network programming

• OSI model
  • Transport layers
    • TCP
    • UDP
    • SCTP
  • IP
• Sockets programming
  • Unix network programming
• NAT traversal
  • UDP Hole punching
    • 📹 Mathias Buus - Internet of Peers

Web network programming technologies

• WebRTC
  • WebRTC Specification
  • Mozilla WebRTC documentation
• WebSocket

Distributed systems

• CAP theorem
• Fallacies of distributed computing
• Consistency models

Libraries

Node.js

• hypercore Secure, distributed append-only log. Built for sharing large datasets and streams of real time data.
• hyperdrive Secure real time distributed file system.
• hyperdb Distributed scalable key-value database.
• hyperdiscovery p2p swarm for hypercore, hyperdrive, and hyperdb feeds.
• RTCMultiConnection WebRTC JavaScript library for peer-to-peer applications (screen sharing, audio/video conferencing, file sharing, media streaming etc.)

P2P projects

File sharing

• BitTorrent
• DatProject

Streaming

• WebTorrent

Crypto currencies

• Bitcoin
• Ethereum
• Faircoin