Redford: "There's this huge barrier to innovation in this space that really comes from the sort of centralized control over what cloud products actually ship and which ones don't" Redford started his first startup 20 years ago, doing decentralized wireless mesh networking over 802.11a. He then worked at Google for seven years where he was building out the Google Cloud Platforms pricing, building and metering systems. After Jeremy convinced me that we could use eK to really achieve cloud scale decentralized computing it was hard to look away.
In this week’s episode, Anna and Guillermo chat with Brian Retford and Jeremy Bruestle from RISC Zero. They discuss their previous work in cloud infrastructure and how ZK offered unique solutions to long standing scaling problems. They cover topics like RISC-V, building VMs, and how RISC Zero aims to build a system which could support a decentralized public cloud.
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