Thinking Elixir Podcast 41: Secure IoT Systems using Ockam with Mrinal Wadhwa
Mar 30, 2021
57:13
We talk with Mrinal Wadhwa about Ockam.io, the project and the company. They are taking on the ambitious goal of building an open protocol through Elixir and Rust libraries to enable secure and trusted IoT platforms. We learn about recurring problems that the IoT industry faces and how they are seeking to solve them differently. A very informative and interesting discussion!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/41
Elixir Community News
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b – Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion
- https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2021-results – EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation) new board members announced.
- https://members.erlef.org/join-us – Become a member of the EEF
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFMLz3cpQ8c – ash_admin gets it’s first beta release
- https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/027-ash-framework-with-zach-daniel/ – Previous interview with Zach Daniel about Ash Framework
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1372925822537981954 – Jose Valim is teasing something new
- https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1374086404389666816 – Chris McCord is teasing a good PR going into Phoenix LiveView
- https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/4 – Elixir's popularity measured by GitHub PRs comes in the top 20 languages!
- https://elements.heroku.com/buildpacks – Another measure of Elixir's adoption is Heroku's buildpack list page.
- https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/U5EhplEqda4/m/vl_StEWVAQAJ?pli=1 – Proposal to add syntax for specifying steps for ranges
- https://elixirforum.com/t/ecto-sqlite3-an-ecto3-sqlite3-adapter/38391 – Ecto is gaining a Sqlite3 adapter
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com
Discussion Resources
- https://github.com/ockam-network – Ockam organization on Github
- https://www.ockam.io/
- https://twitter.com/mrinal/status/1359996338117566467
- https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/discussions/864 – Contributor sponsorship program
- https://www.ockam.io/learn/blog/zero_ipo – Open company blog post titled "Zero-To-IPO - Charting Ockam's Route"
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/us/oldsmar-florida-hack-water-poison/index.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA
- https://www.dragos.com/resource/dragos-releases-annual-industrial-control-systems-cybersecurity-2020-year-in-review-report/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewgregory/
- https://www.influxdata.com/
- https://future.ventures/
- https://www.okta.com/
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/mrinal – Mrinal on Twitter
- https://twitter.com/Ockam – Ockam on Twitter
- https://github.com/mrinalwadhwa/ – Mrinal on Github
- https://www.ockam.io/ – Ockam website
- https://github.com/ockam-network/ – Ockam Organization on Github
- https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam – Ockam project on Github
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