Torn between writing a toy project I'd use vs learning Go, I decided to try my hand at writing a simple distributed chunked filestore. Here are a few things I learned and how I moved from a naive implementation to a parallelized implementation.
There are a lot of filestore papers already that involve much more sophisticated distribution/replication strategies, and I will be building upon my project as I continue - I've got lots to learn. Anyhow, let's get started!
The Test Suite
First up, a simple test suite:
type fakeReader struct {
