Allen Wyma talks with Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO at Ockam. Allen and Mrinal talk about Ockham, a toolkit, written in Rust, to build distributed applications that provide trust across hostile networks.
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Timestamps
- [@00:10] - Mrinal’s Introduction
- [@01:01] - What is Ockam?
- [@05:04] - Building Ockam from scratch and building it open source
- [@10:45] - How Ockam provides security with modern data distribution
- [@18:15] - The reason behind building Ockam with Rust
- [@26:15] - Feedback that Ockam received from using Rust & Elixir
- [@28:04] - Concerns with Rust and Elixir
- [@29:38] - The most difficult part of working on Ockam
- [@30:42] - Competing technologies that solve the same issues as Ockam
- [@33:04] - When Ockam is not a good solution
- [@35:15] - What’s next for Ockam
- [@40:17] - Job opportunity with Ockam
- [@41:48] - Why Ockham switched From Erlang to Elixir
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
