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2020-07-29

2020-07-29

Aug 03, 2020

Attendees:

  • @Ram Jagadeesan

  • @Hart Montgomery

  • @Clive Boulton

Agenda:

Round-robin

Discussion:

Dan Boneh's cryptography contribution to security and privacy in COVID-19 apps ( https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/15793/415100 | https://crypto.stanford.edu/ )

Corvid work from home (WFH) and end-points.

  • Do many more WFH end-points drive blockchain adoption.

  • Probably not unless the data is shared between business partners. 

Integration and Global Locking.

  • SAP business applications are undergoing a huge global integration effort of cloud services. Does this induce microservices that trigger global locking issues in traditional SQL databases better dealt with by time series locks?

  • e.g. blockchain consensus bundling or NewSQL partition avoidance to deal with CAP theorem and latency issues. Cactus alike NewSQL avoids partitions (see Daniel Abadi blames Spanner http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-systems-are-failing-to.html  ) 

Other work:

AWG members encouraged to reach out to speakers. Start with cycling thru main HL projects. Sawtooth 2.0 and Iroha 2.0 are Rust based.