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