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title="Aerogramme was at FOSDEM'24 modern email track"
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date=2024-02-05
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*FOSDEM is the European conference for FLOSS developpers. It was the first time Aerogramme was discussed publicly.
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If you missed the presentation, a recording and the slides are available.*
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## Recording
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<div class="video">
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<video controls="controls" width="75%">
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<source src="https://video.fosdem.org/2024/h2213/fosdem-2024-2642--servers-aerogramme-a-multi-region-imap-server.av1.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="av01.0.08M.08.0.110.01.01.01.0"">
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<source src="https://video.fosdem.org/2024/h2213/fosdem-2024-2642--servers-aerogramme-a-multi-region-imap-server.mp4" type="video/mp4">
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</video>
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</div>
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## Transcript
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*(slide 1)* Aerogramme is a multi-region IMAP server, in this talk we will discuss what a "multi-region IMAP server" means and why it's important.
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*(slide 2)*
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Let's start with some context, my name is Quentin. I have a PhD in distributed system,
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and this talk will be a lot about PhD distributed system because something I know.
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I try to work as much as possible for a collective named Deuxfleurs where we try to build a low-tech Internet.
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If you want to know more about our project, check yesterday talk about Garage.
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Aerogramme is part of Deuxfleurs' strategy, and a very nice thing, this project is supported by NLnet.
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*(slide 3)*
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First, the problem we want to solve: we want to make other people available when it would be otherwise
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impossible (due to geographical distances for example). We can achieve this goal only if the underlying system is working:
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so we will talk a lot about availability and reliability.
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*(slide 4)*
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Today's talk is about 3 main ideas: 1) we should not trust the cloud & hosting providers as they can fail. 2) there is some space to explore alternative IMAP server designs and 3) and finally I will try to convince you that such new designs can work in the real life
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*(slide 5)*
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In the title talk, I speak about "multi-region", and so we must define first what is a "region".
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On the slide is depicted the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in Paris: it's made of 3 datacenters.
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Last april, the whole region, the 3 datacenters were unavailable for 3 weeks.
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The outage lasted for 3 weeks for some services, and it was due to a fire in one datacenter.
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And due to tight connections between the 3 datacenters, the 2 others ones were unusable due to a software problem.
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3 weeks without emails, you imagine it can make your life very hard if you need to do some important stuff, like seeking a new job.
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*(rest of the transcript is missing currently)*
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## Links
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- [Download Slides](https://fosdem.org/2024/events/attachments/fosdem-2024-2642--servers-aerogramme-a-multi-region-imap-server/slides/22665/aerogramme_vmnrj3Q.pdf)
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- [Aerogramme Talk Page](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2642--servers-aerogramme-a-multi-region-imap-server/)
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- [Modern Email Track](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/modern-email/)
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- [2024 edition main page](https://fosdem.org/2024/)
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