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    Solving the NPM Problem at Scale

    March 24th, 2016

    If you haven’t heard, Azer Koculu unpublished a bunch of his modules as protest against behavior by the company that backs NPM. This crashed the NPM ecosystem with hundreds of popular project suddenly unable to build. Now there’s lots of talk about what to do. PGP signatures? Always pinning? Permacaching with IPFS?  I think Azer's goal was achieved. We are now actually talking about how brittle the system. The conversation is happening. This is good.

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    Tagged: npm opensource programming

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