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QuantLayer Podcast

Vikram Ramakrishnan and Faizaan Shamsi

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Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 62

In this podcast, hosts Vikram Ramakrishnan and Faizaan Shamsi, partners at the software consultancy QuantLayer, talk to investors and builders of the cryptocurrency arena. We discuss how industry participants think about crypto assets, how they uncover fraud in the market, and which technologies will turn the budding, nascent crypto space into the revolutionary powerhouse early market participants had hoped for.

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https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
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https://www.scopelift.co/
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Bringing Traditional Tooling Services to Serverless

Episode 62

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 • Duration 27:12

As software teams begin to migrate to serverless, they will require more in the way of serverless specific tooling: cost tracking, alerting, monitoring, and so on. Here, we look at a number of serverless tooling providers and discuss what they bring and how they will compete with traditional tooling services.

Topics:

Installable versus Hosted Platform
On Hosted Platform
Tooling providers
- CloudZero
- Dashbird
- Hasura GraphQL Engine
- IOpipe
- Iron.io
- lumigo
- Node Lambda
- SCAR
- Sigma
- Stackery
- Thundra
On framework
On security
- Protego
- Threat Stack
On Installable Platform

Links:

Hosted Platform - https://landscape.cncf.io/category=hosted-platform&format=card-mode&grouping=category
Tools - https://landscape.cncf.io/category=tools&format=card-mode&grouping=category
Framework - https://landscape.cncf.io/category=framework&format=card-mode&grouping=category
Security - https://landscape.cncf.io/category=security&format=card-mode&grouping=category
Installable Platform - https://landscape.cncf.io/category=installable-platform&format=card-mode&grouping=category

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AWS, GCP, and Azure: The Tradeoffs of Serverless Architectures

Episode 61

Wednesday, January 22, 2020 • Duration 34:35

Serverless has caused a massive shift in approaches to application design. On this episode, we explore what serverless gives teams, and the tradeoffs involved in going the serverless route. We cover players like Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and Microsoft Azure, and what else is in store for the space.

Topics:

What Serverless is
On their benefits
Monolithic versus microservices architectures
How might development teams work on serverless applications versus traditional ones
On tradeoffs of Serverless
Business benefits of Serverless
The drawbacks

Links:

Serverless - https://serverless.com
What is Serverless? - Squadex - https://squadex.com/insights/what-is-serverless/

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Interoperability in Cosmos’s IBC Protocol with Tendermint’s Zaki Manian

Episode 52

Monday, October 7, 2019 • Duration 47:36

On this episode, I speak to Zaki Manian from Tendermint. We get deep into the weeds of interoperability, his notions of interop between fast chains and fast and slow chains. We discuss the IBC protocol, which is a spec for adapters between different chains along with all the complexities when dealing with cross-chain communications. Moreover, we examine design and development principles when building product in this space, and the differences when building traditional software product. Zaki goes over some exciting projects that are building on Cosmos as well.

Topics:

Who Zaki is
Talking about interoperability
Two classes of blockchains
What is Cosmos trying to do
Main issues when getting different chains to talk to one another
Main design principles when setting out to design the Cosmos network
Interesting projects he see people building with Cosmos
Talking about consensus system and incentive system
Minimal Viable Ecosystem Acceleration talk

Links:

Cosmos Network - https://cosmos.network/
Twitter - Cosmos Network - https://twitter.com/cosmos
Telegram - Cosmos Network - https://t.me/Cosmos_Network
Zaki's Twitter - https://twitter.com/zmanian
Minimal Viable Ecosystem Acceleration talk at MIT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqopwqXyURw
Cosmos SDK Tutorial - https://github.com/cosmos/sdk-application-tutorial
Cosmos Game of Stakes - https://blog.cosmos.network/game-of-stakes-closing-ceremonies-eddb71d3b114

A Tour of Blockstack’s Decentralized Computing Network With Aaron Blankstein

Episode 51

Monday, September 30, 2019 • Duration 44:42

We chatted with Aaron Blankstein, Core Engineer from Blockstack. Blockstack is a decentralized computing network, which makes it simple for developers to build blockchain-based applications. We learn about Blockstack’s incentive system, and what will be changing from v1 to v2. We discuss a few use cases of Blockstack, like the Blockstack Naming Service, or BNS. We also go over Blockstack’s smart contract language Clarity, and the broad tooling that will exist for developers working on the platform. We finish up learning about Aaaron’s fascination with augmented Reality and adversarial machine learning.

Topics:

Who Aaron is
How he describe Blockstack
Centralized versus decentralized application architecture
What is Blockstack's relationship with Bitcoin
How does consensus work in Blockstack
What is Blockstack naming system
On Clarity smart contracts language
Decentralized storage system called Gaia
On authentication and how it works
JavaScript tools
Radiks
Blockstack.js

Links:

Clarity - https://docs.blockstack.org/core/smart/overview.html
Blockstack forums - https://forum.blockstack.org
Blockstack - https://blockstack.org/
White Paper - https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf
Papers - Blockstack - https://blockstack.org/papers
Blackstack Docs - https://docs.blockstack.org/
Aaron Blankstein Website - https://aaron.blankstein.com/
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Building Scalable Derivatives Trading Platforms with Charles Phan of Interdax

Episode 50

Monday, September 23, 2019 • Duration 31:21

We chatted with Charles Phan, Chief Technology Officer from Interdax. Interdax is a next generation digital assets exchange with strong engineering roots in High Frequency Trading firms, traditional exchanges, hedge funds, investment banks, market data and liquidity providers. This episode was a lot of fun. We talked about Charles’ background in traditional finance and a prior life as a derivatives trader. We then compare and contrast traditional and crypto derivatives markets. We also talk technical details of perpetual swaps and how they differ from other derivative products. Finally, we discuss the engineering underpinnings of the interdax platform and UX and UI considerations when building the product. We finish up discussing technologies Charles is excited about. Hope you enjoy this one.

Topics:

Charles Phan's background
On derivatives markets and trading
Differences between derivatives markets in traditional finance versus crypto
On Interdax
What his role is at Interdax
Building the Interdax

Book:

Dynamic Hedging by Nassim Taleb

Links:

Interdax - https://www.interdax.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/interdax

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A Tale of New Digital Primitives with Ben DiFrancesco

Episode 49

Monday, September 16, 2019 • Duration 54:21

Ben DiFrancesco, software consultant and founder of scopelift, joins us on this one. Two things we really respect about Ben are his ability to break down complex technical topics and also his ability to be honest about what crypto and blockchain offer us. He’s at heart, a technologist, and his passion for and dedication to crypto is palpable. This conversation contains a bit of philosophy around Bitcoin and Ethereum, particularly around how polarized the two spaces have become. We get into Bitcoin and Ethereum’s respective reasons for existing and how they can work together, how developers can use these new digital primitives to build applications, and business opportunities in the space. We also cover DeFi, and how smart contracts enable Maker and Dai.

Always enjoy talking to Ben, and I hope you enjoy this one.

Topics:

Smart Contracts & use cases that excite him
BTC + ETH working together
DeFi movement
Crypto Primitives
Quality of Web Dev versus Crypto tooling
ETH and “rich statefulness” and what that means
Some techs outside of blockchain and crypto that he is excited about

Links:

Ben’s twitter: https://twitter.com/BenDiFrancesco
Ben’s consultancy ScopeLift: https://www.scopelift.co/
Newsletter: https://www.buildblockchain.tech/newsletter
Podcast #1: http://quantlayer.libsyn.com/4-a-discussion-with-software-consultant-ben-difrancesco-on-building-great-blockchain-software
- https://medium.com/@QuantLayer/building-great-blockchain-software-smart-contract-scaling-and-elixir-ae94687e34dd - -

A Recap of Blockchain Training Conference 2019

Episode 48

Monday, September 9, 2019 • Duration 42:32

We recap our attendance at the Blockchain Training Conference last week. We cover the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)’s new certifications and their conference’s emphasis on developer and professional education. We also look at the slew of great talks on The Lightning Network, bitcoin privacy, and smart contracts.

Topics:

What does C4 stands for
Keynote w/ Pamela Morgan and Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Announcement: Mastering the Lightning Network
C4 and it's Purpose
CBP Prep Course w/ Andreas
Lightning Network Payment Channels Update w/ Renee Pickhardt
Crypto for Creatives w/ Stephanie Murphy
Clash of Expectations - UX and usability
Bitcoin Privacy On and Offchain w/ Janine Römer
Blockchain Analysis versus Surveillance
Wyoming’s blockchain laws
Law and the Lightning network - Peter van Valkenburg, Coin Center
Joining the Lightning Network w/ Beatrice Leung, Project Manager at Radar
Advanced Lightning Applications w/ Olaoluwa Osuntokun, CTO at lightning labs aka roasbeef

Links:

CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4) - https://cryptoconsortium.org/
Standards | CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4) - https://cryptoconsortium.org/standards/
Blockchain Training Conference - https://blockchaintraining.org/home/home/
Mastering Lightning Network Book on Github - https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook
PrivacyTools.io - https://www.privacytools.io/
That One Privacy Site - https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
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Dr. Ed Felten and Offchain Labs: Second Layer Solutions for Smart Contracts

Episode 47

Tuesday, September 3, 2019 • Duration 40:29

Dr. Ed Felten is a professor of Computer Science at Princeton, he’s served as Chief Technologist at the FTC and Deputy CTO at the White House. He’s also the cofounder of Offchain Labs, a Princeton-based startup that’s focusing on 2nd layer smart contract solutions to improve scalability. This was one of our favorite conversations to date. We discuss smart contracts and their current problems. We discuss Arbitrum, Offchain Labs’ solution to the smart contract scaling problem which uses a system of validators to provide a guarantee to smart contract participants. Moreover, we discuss at length how their AnyTrust guarantee works, and why only a single validator is needed to maintain a working system. We also go through how an existing dApp can get ported over to Arbitrum. Finally, we talk high level tech themes: How technology and public policy are becoming more and more interconnected, how technology advising will become more and more important over time, and other technologies he’s really optimistic about. It’s a really packed episode. Enjoy.

Topics:

On the idea of "Bitcoin works in practice, but not in theory"
Smart contracts
Primary problems with smart contracts
Real world applications of smart contracts
What Offchain Labs is doing with smart contracts
Arbitrum & Validators
Porting Existing dApp to Arbitrum
Offchain business model
On blockchain
Academia to Industry
Advisor to Obama Administraion
On his co-authored paper titled, "A Cryptographic Escrow for Treaty Declarations and Step-by-Step Verification"
Optimistic technologies people don't know about

Links:

Coursera course:
- https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
- http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs27philippe.pdf
Github: https://github.com/OffchainLabs Whitepaper: Twitter: Princeton website:

Domain Driven Design, Language and DevOps for Distributed Systems with CircleCI’s Rob Zuber

Episode 46

Tuesday, August 27, 2019 • Duration 51:36

We have Rob Zuber, CTO from CircleCI on. A lot of the projects we work on implement CircleCI, so we were super excited to speak to Rob. We talk about his background and how he became part of CircleCI through an acquisition. We also get into one of his favorite topics: language. Particularly the words that are used in projects, and how important they are for workflow. We also discuss “Domain Driven Design,” or the idea that when creating a layer of functionality, to keep it bounded within its domain so other layers don’t creep into it. This was an engineering heavy episode that was a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy this one.

But before we get to the conversation, here’s a word from a sponsor, Blockchain Training Conference, that I’m really excited about. What if there was an educational industry conference, where all of the sessions were focused on teaching you something instead of selling you something? There is and it’s Blockchain Training Conference 2019. It’s going to be hosted August 28th to the 30th in Denver, Colorado. BTC2019 offers every attendee the chance to leave certified and confident in their understanding of blockchain technology. Move past the jargon to gain a robust understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrencies with master classes taught by industry luminaries like Andreas M. Antonopoulos, René Pickhardt, Jameson Lopp, Pamela Morgan, and many others. Register today and learn more at blockchaintraining.org.

We also have a coupon code for our listeners that you can use to get a 10% discount for the conference: quantlayer10

Go to https://blockchaintraining.org/attend/ and hit buy on your ticket, and put in the coupon code quantlayer10 (that’s Q U A N T L A Y E R and the number 10).

We are going to be at this conference in August, so reach out if you will be there as well. Would love to meet in meatspace.

Topics:

Rob's background & early time at CircleCI
Other technical problems they had to deal with
On his favorite topics: Language
Concepts he highlighted on his talked, "Words Matter: Ubiquitous Language and Throughput"

Opening Up the Black Box of Insurance: Wunderite and Programmatic Data Aggregation

Episode 45

Monday, August 19, 2019 • Duration 41:24

On this episode, we have Peter MacDonald and Joe Schnare from Wunderite, an insurance startup based in Boston. This was a really interesting conversation around how they are improving insurance workflows for agencies around the country through programmatic data aggregation. We talk about their backgrounds, get into the details of the black box industry known as insurance, and how they work with customers on product development. I learned a lot from this conversation. Enjoy.

We also have a coupon code for our listeners that you can use to get a 10% discount for the conference: quantlayer10

Go to https://blockchaintraining.org/attend/ and hit buy on your ticket, and put in the coupon code quantlayer10 (that’s Q U A N T L A Y E R and the number 10).

We are going to be at this conference in August, so reach out if you will be there as well. Would love to meet in meatspace.

Topics:

Peter and Joe’s background
The reason why they are interested in insurance
Broad problems overall with the insurance industry that Wunderite is solving
Industry verticals that they're focusing on
Couple case studies on insurance workflow before Wunderite, and how that changed after
On their sales process and how they decide who to reach out to

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