Remember Cinobelix, the big guy with an insatiable hunger for data? Let’s kick off this year’s stories with one of his adventures. This isn’t just the first post of the new year; it’s also the inaugural entry in a series where I’ll demonstrate practical examples of working with CinodeFS. Key holder Cinobelix is holding the keys to the Cinode Maps project. Not in the sense that we, humans, tend to use our keys.

Today, I’d like to focus on Cinode’s filesystem layer. This layer transforms binary data blobs into a manageable format, greatly simplifying data interaction from an application perspective. Taking this blog as an example: it is served through a dedicated proxy exposing a complex blob-based dataset in a nice structure of directories and files that every browser understands. Until now, the toolbox for building filesystem data in Cinode has been somewhat limited.

This is the second post in the series of dynamic links anatomy. Last time I described the public layer of dynamic links. Now it’s time to dive into the private one. As a quick recap - the public layer prevents propagation of incorrect data by performing cryptographic validation but is only allowed to work on the encrypted dataset. The private layer on the other hand works on the decrypted data relying on the validation that was already made on the public layer.

Friends He never felt guilty for how he looked. He was always like that. Nobody really knows what happened, maybe it was a wrong scale factor on the horizontal axis that made his belly so large, or maybe the unrestrained thirst for the information… Now since he joined the small but cozy rack shelf he’s been called The Big Guy over and over again. Yes, that’s how Cinodave likes to call him, right before exploding with a spasm of a contagious laugh.

I did a lot of improvements on the hardware side recently. But finally it’s time to get back to designing and coding 😄. Today I won’t be showing something new. Instead I’d like to start a series of posts describing in great detail Cinode internals. I slowly but steadily worked on the content for a few months already - let’s finally release it. First area covered here will be about dynamic links.