SwellRT: Awakening Decentralized Collaboration
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610961 SwellRT: Awakening Decentralized Collaboration Samer Hassan, Pablo Ojanguren @samerP2P
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610961
SwellRT: Awakening Decentralized Collaboration
Samer Hassan, Pablo Ojanguren
@samerP2P
Centralization
● For-profit
● Surveillance
● Monopoly
● Centralised Control
● Top-down
● US-centric
● Proprietary Software
● Single Ownership
Decentralization
● Privacy
● Anonymity
● Decentralised Control
● Bottom-up
● Diversity
Emerging Alternatives
How do we collaborate?
Collaboration App Types
ProjectManagement Communication
Text / File based Collaboration Blend RT
Collaboration
Federated
Open Standard
Free/Open Source
Universal?
The collaboration we want...
Real-Time Collaboration
Federated Infrastructure
Free/Open Source
Flexible, Extensible… API
History
SwellRT History
SwellRT History
✓ Real-time collaboration
✓ Federated
✘ Free/Libre Open Source
✘ API
✓ Real-time collaboration
✓ Federated
✓ Free/Libre Open Source
✘ API
✓ Real-time collaboration
✘ Federated
✘ Free/Libre Open Source
✓ API
✓ Real-time collaboration
✓ Federated
✓ Free/Libre Open Source
✓ API
Collaboration Technologies
CentralizedCloud
Decentralized
Monolithic app / service
Low Level API / LibraryTogetherJS
WebRTC, YJS
More value for developers
ShareJSDerbyJS
SwellRT
What is SwellRT?
SwellRT
Development Framework for Decentralized Real-Time Collaborative Apps
Federated Database for Collaborative Objects
Objects Have a global ID on Internet
myserver.net/s+zpk87MzATiA
Objects =
JSON Documentswith steroids
“Hello World” 325.00
0€
{ "wave_id":"local.net/s+zpk87MzATiA",
"participants":[ "[email protected]", "@local.net", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ],
"root":{ "id":"local.net/s+zpk87MzATiA",
"Pad":{
"Annotations":"",
"xml":"<body acl=\"\" ap=\"default\" p=\"root.pad\"><line/>Hu hu hu<line/><line/>Di dii<line/><line/>Trolorolo<line/><line/>Dipistrofia</body>",
"author":"[email protected]",
"contributors":[ "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ],
"lastmodtime":1455131731414 },
"promoter":"[email protected]", "title":"SwellRT X", "contributors":[ "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ], "communities":[ "local.net/s+5Mnx1Mu4_mA" ],
Participants
Humans &
Bots
Collaborative Objects
Access ControlRules
Object
Database / Framework
SwellRT API
App (Frontend)
SwellRT(Backend)
Database
Framework
● Persistence● Search engine● Real-time access control
(concurrency control)
● Email integration● Notifications ● Identity provider● Multi Platform Reactive API ● Pre-built Components● Backend Management Tools
Federated
Server Server
Server Server
Changes
Real-time changepropagation
Collaborative Object
More features...
● JavaScript, Java, Android clients
● Rich Text Editor with Widgets
● Provided as Docker Image
● Mobile Notifications
Benefits for Developers
Hiding complexity, avoiding extra code for
- Data storage
- Data sharing, communications, sync...
- User identity management
- Federation
- New UX patterns like Reactive UI
Technologies Quadrant
CentralizedCloud
Decentralized
Monolithic app / service
Low Level API / LibraryTogetherJS
WebRTC, YJS
End-user products / services
Hard adoption
Platform
More value for developers
Useful to build...
...a new Slack
...a new GDrive
...a new Trello
An example?
Web App: http://teem.works
Android App: http://tiny.cc/teemapp
Web http://swellrt.org
https://github.com/P2Pvalue/swellrt
SwellRT
Thank you
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