https://blog.theskywirenetwork.net/tags/architecture/Recent content in Architecture on Skycoin BlogHugoenThu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.theskywirenetwork.net/posts/standalone-skywire-pk-identity/Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.theskywirenetwork.net/posts/standalone-skywire-pk-identity/<p>If you keep peeling back skywire&rsquo;s layers — the apps, the multihop router, the multiplexed routes, the discovery services, the dmsg relay — what&rsquo;s at the very bottom? One primitive: an <strong>encrypted connection between two public keys</strong>. The noise handshake provides the encryption; the public key <em>is</em> the identity. No certificate authority vouches for it, no DNS name resolves to it, no allocated IP belongs to it. A party is its key, and two keys that have completed a handshake have, by construction, authenticated each other and established a confidential channel.</p>https://blog.theskywirenetwork.net/posts/skywire-as-a-personal-fleet-substrate/Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.theskywirenetwork.net/posts/skywire-as-a-personal-fleet-substrate/<p>Most discussions of &ldquo;distributed computing&rdquo; reach for the wrong frame when applied to a personal cluster of machines you actually own. The Hadoop / Spark / Kubernetes mental model assumes you have a homogeneous workload that splits cleanly across many workers — the &ldquo;parallelize one big problem&rdquo; shape. For most personal infrastructure, that workload doesn&rsquo;t exist. You don&rsquo;t have terabytes of data to process or a million-row sweep to chew through every night.</p>