Why Machines Talk Directly: A New Way to Connect

Machines talking to each other without a middleman? That's the big idea behind Tashi, a new way to make devices work together in real time. Right now, most machines rely on big cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud to communicate. But these services can be slow, expensive, and sometimes just plain fail. Remember when a bad update from CrowdStrike messed up 8. 5 million Windows machines? Or when AWS had a hiccup and took Slack and Coinbase offline? These are the kinds of problems Tashi wants to fix. Tashi uses a peer-to-peer mesh network, which means machines talk directly to each other instead of going through a central server. This setup is faster and more reliable. In tests, Tashi can sync up machines in under 30 milliseconds. That's quick enough for things like drone swarms, robot teams, and online multiplayer games.But how does it work? Tashi uses something called a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) and asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT) to make sure all the machines agree on what's happening. It's like a group chat where everyone agrees on the message before it's sent. This way, there's no single point of failure, and the system can handle lots of machines talking at once. Tashi isn't just for robots and drones. It can also help AI agents work together and make online gaming smoother. Right now, game developers spend a lot of money on servers to keep games running smoothly. Tashi could cut down on those costs and make games more reliable. Of course, there are challenges. Making sure the system works well with lots of machines is tricky. And there are questions about how to handle things like liability and financial compliance. But if Tashi can pull it off, it could be a big deal for the future of machine-to-machine communication.