Usage Cases
In the application-specific chapters, the focus was mainly on the actual technology. In practical deployment, other issues tend to come to the fore. Some are inherent in the user community that build around the application, while others depend on the hosting network for the application.
Either way, they can come to dominate the practical deployment situation for any peer technology, at best rendering relative merits between competing implementations irrelevant by allowing only one solution, at worst making any p2p deployment impossible. So, although the basis for the following is in individual deployment cases, I have tried to generalize according to the patterns identified.
Realize that all networks in existence today started out ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access