Ockam with Mrinal Wadhwa

Allen Wyma talks with Mrinal Wadhwa (twitter.com/mrinal), CTO at Ockam (ockam.io). 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 (elixir-lang.org)

• [@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 (erlang.org) to Elixir

Credits

Intro Theme: twitter.com/AerocityMusic

Audio Editing: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset (twitter.com/jonhoo)

Show Notes: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosts: Allen Wyma (twitter.com/allenwyma)