Computers & Education

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we start with an introduction of containers and explain the many terms we often hear about them.

We then pivot and discuss why the industry is adopting containers, its benefits, and how you can get started by either using your local machine, single board computer, or an Amazon technology. From images through to Docker files, this episode will help you get started on your containers journey.

We dive into orchestration, talk about when to use containers and serverless, and close off the show with containers development tools and show you how you would deploy and manage them in AWS.

We just scratched the surface on the tooling we covered and suggest our listeners take a read through some of the links below:

AWS glossary - AWS General Reference (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/glos-chap.html)
Glossary | Docker Documentation (https://docs.docker.com/glossary/)
Container Orchestration
Amazon ECS vs Amazon EKS: making sense of AWS container services | Con... (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ecs-vs-amazon-eks-making-sense-of-aws-container-services/)
Lambda Containers: 
New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support | AWS News Blog (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/)
CoPilot
Developing an application based on multiple microservices using AWS Co... (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/developing-an-application-based-on-multiple-microservices-using-the-aws-copilot-and-aws-fargate/)
AWS Copilot is now generally available | Containers (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-copilot-is-now-generally-available/)
ECS
Amazon ECS developer tools overview - Amazon Elastic Container Service (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-developer-tools.html#developer-tools-dockercli)
Tutorial: Creating a Cluster with an EC2 Task Using the Amazon ECS CLI... (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-cli-tutorial-ec2.html)
EKSCTL
The eksctl command line utility - Amazon EKS (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eksctl.html)
MISC
A Docker Tutorial for Beginners (https://docker-curriculum.com/)

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Shai Perednik - Solutions Architect, AWS

Episode 82 - Getting Started With Containers

Avalanche is an open, scalable, and secure smart contracts platform. It targets three broad use cases; building application-specific blockchains, building and launching highly scalable decentralized applications (dapps), and building arbitrarily complex digital assets with custom rules, covenants, and riders (smart assets). It prides itself off on being blazingly fast, low cost, and eco-friendly. 

Emin Gün Sirer is the Founder & CEO of the Avalanche network. He is also a long time friend of the show, and joined us again for the 4th time after a 5 year break to share his journey since then, which led him to creating Avalanche. We also dove deep into the technical aspects of the protocol and how it fits into the blockchain ecosystem as a whole.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Gun's journey over the past 5 years which led him to creating Avalanche
- The unique features and trade-offs in the protocol
- A deep dive into bridging within Avalanche
- MEV extraction within the protocol
- Avalanche consensus - reliance on seed anchors

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Episode 103 - Bitcoin-NG – Scientists Versus the Church: https://bit.ly/3oZ5tZy
- Ep 134 - On a Rocky DAO: https://bit.ly/3HQUNob
- Avalanche: https://bit.ly/3nNJs0f
- Ava Labs: https://bit.ly/30Puf5T
- Avalanche on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3xjuh20
- Gun on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3pfJSfF

Sponsors: 
- Chorus One: Chorus One runs validators on cutting edge Proof of Stake networks such as Cosmos, Solana, Celo, Polkadot and Oasis. - https://epicenter.rocks/chorusone
- ParaSwap: ParaSwap aggregates all major DEXs and makes sure you beat the market price at every single swap and with the lowest slippage - paraswap.io/epicenter

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/419

#419 Emin Gün Sirer: Avalanche

The DarkFi squad return for the second part of this 2 part episode. We chat about the FreeAssange DAO, totalitarianism in crypto, and hear about Amir's early involvement in many projects including Bitcoin, DarkMarket (OpenBazaar) and even Ethereum. Diving a bit more technical, we also cover the DarkFi platform, a new blockchain that prioritizes privacy. As a base layer for anonymous applications and smart contracts, it's a multichain interoperable, and open source product that anyone can build any type of applications on utilizing zero-knowledge proof.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- The Free Assange DAO
- Is transparency ever a good thing?
- DarkMarket
- Totalitarianism in crypto
- Amir shares his views on Ethereum
- Solarpunk

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Dark.Fi: https://bit.ly/3101vba
- DarkFi manifesto: https://bit.ly/3sv0UcB
- DarkFi Element channel: https://bit.ly/3FugDfO
- DarkFi on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3FoBKjK
- Amir on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3EBQKcV
- Rose on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3mxbMmz
- Ivan on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3eimNDO
- The Dark Forest: https://bit.ly/32t5BZB

Sponsors: 
- Gnosis Safe: Gnosis Safe is a smart wallet for securely managing digital assets and allows you to define customized access permissions. - https://epicenter.rocks/gnosissafe
- Tally: Tally is a new wallet for Web3 and DeFi that sees the wallet as a public good. Think of it like a community-owned alternative to MetaMask. - https://epicenter.rocks/tallycash

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sunny Aggarwal. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/424

#424 Amir Taaki, Ivan Jelincic & Rose O'Leary: DarkFi – Let There Be Dark (Part 2 of 2)

Formerly Enigma, Secret Network is a blockchain-based, open-source protocol built using the Cosmos SDK. It uses Trusted Execution Environments on nodes to marry privacy-by-default with smart contracts.

We welcomed Guy Zyskind, Founder & CEO of Secret Network, back on the show to chat about the progression of the project into the new protocol and why this is now built on Cosmos, advantages and drawbacks in using Trusted Execution Environments and SGX technology over cryptography only, and why people might want to keep NFTs private.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Guy's background and how he got into crypto
- How Enigma/Secret Network evolved
- Why the Switch to Cosmos?
- Trusted Execution Environment and SGX
- The levels of privacy within the network
- Why CosmWasm?
- The future of SGX computation
- Secret contracts interacting with other IBC enabled chains
- The types of applications running on Secret today
- NFTs on Secret

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Episode 246 - Enigma: https://bit.ly/3n46vmC
- Secret Network: https://bit.ly/3eWe3Ui
- Discord: https://bit.ly/3t1HHjf
- Secret Network on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3FgiSCJ
- Guy on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3q32KQl

Sponsors: 
- ParaSwap: ParaSwap aggregates all major DEXs and makes sure you beat the market price at every single swap and with the lowest slippage - paraswap.io/epicenter
- Chorus One: Chorus One runs validators on cutting edge Proof of Stake networks such as Cosmos, Solana, Celo, Polkadot and Oasis. - https://epicenter.rocks/chorusone

This episode is hosted by Sunny Aggarwal & Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/425

#425 Guy Zyskind: Secret Network – Bringing Privacy to Blockchain

NEAR Protocol is a leading smart contract platform that aims for simplicity, security and scalability. NEAR was one of the first sharded blockchains and allows deploying smart contracts using Web Assembly on currently four different shards. NEAR's sharding design, Nightshade, splits the blocks into different segments, which allows for great scalability without negatively impacting user and developer experience. Since, its launch NEAR has evolved into one of the most active smart contract ecosystems.

Illia and Alex, co-founders of NEAR, joined us to chat about the NEAR's protocol design and recent advances, such as the launch of Aurora, NEAR's EVM shard. We also discussed how their sharding solution works and how it can scale to support a massive amount of users and applications.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Why Illia and Alex decided to build NEAR
- NEAR's core idea to scale through sharding
- NEAR’s Nightshade sharding design
- Dealing with interactions between programmes
- How cross-shard interoperability works
- Aurora - the EVM shard
- NEAR's focus on user experience
- Pagoda - the first web3 startup platform
- The biggest challenges ahead

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- NEAR Protocol: https://bit.ly/3v1KI44
- Aurora: https://bit.ly/3s1hVus
- NEAR on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3BwcS8y
- Alex on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3sYD08i
- Illia on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3I23Q5u

Sponsors: 
- Gnosis Safe: Gnosis Safe is a smart wallet for securely managing digital assets and allows you to define customized access permissions. - https://epicenter.rocks/gnosissafe
- Tally: Tally is a new wallet for Web3 and DeFi that sees the wallet as a public good. Think of it like a community-owned alternative to MetaMask. - https://epicenter.rocks/tallycash

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/431

#431 Alex Skidanov & Illia Polosukhin: NEAR Protocol – Scaling Blockchain to a Billion Users

Dune Analytics is a platform aggregating blockchain data, making data easier to query and understand for the larger public. Over the past years, Dune has become the go-to tool for blockchain analytics, as well as the home of a community of dune wizards numbering in the thousands, with its fundraising at a 1 Billion valuation as a testament to the growth of the project over the past 4 years. 

In today's episode, we are joined by the project's co-founder, Fredrik Haga. We discuss the products Dune Analytics offers, why it's hard to aggregate data that in principle is public, and how a community of data wizards was built in a grassroots effort. We also chatted about product focus and vision for the future, as well as useful lessons for bootstrapping a project on a shoestring budget.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- The beginning of Dune
- The challenges and difficulties in building a blockchain data product.
- Technical improvements on Dune V2
- Supporting for non-evm chains
- Business models, userbases, and valuations
- Interesting use cases on Dune
- Community Building
- The focus on product experience and next steps for the project

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Dune Analytics's website: http://bit.ly/3u9jk2i
- Dune Analytics Twitter: http://bit.ly/3VBqjgi
- Fredrik Haga's twitter: http://bit.ly/3VDk7UZ

Sponsors: 
- Omni: Access all of Web3 in one easy-to-use wallet! Earn and manage assets at once with Omni's built-in staking, yield vaults, bridges, swaps and NFT support.
https://omni.app/ -

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst & Felix Lutsch. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/472

#472 Fredrik Haga: Dune Analytics – The Open Data Platform

2022 has proven time after time that centralised entities are prone to multiple points of failure, intentional or not. Decentralised finance (DeFi) addresses these, but the user experience has often been lacklustre compared to that from centralised finance (CeFi). Exchanges are the backbone of any market, but high throughput is required in order to ensure that both makers and takers can proficiently use them. Decentralised exchanges have long faced issues due to bandwidth constraints native to blockchains, but recent L2 scaling solutions have provided a considerable increase in terms of throughput. For example, dYdX is currently the largest consumer of STARKs, but growing institutional and retail interest in derivative financial products urges for an even better alternative.

We were joined by Antonio Juliano, founder & CEO of dYdX perpetual exchange, to discuss about the upcoming transition to dYdX V4 and what challenges decentralised exchanges have to face amidst technological bottlenecks and upcoming regulations.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Antonio’s background & timing products
- dYdX product overview
- Price feed oracles
- dYdX user demographics & UX
- Development timeframes & taking risks
- Order book vs. AMM
- Building a sovereign blockchain on Cosmos
- The challenges of decentralising order books
- IBC integrations and composability
- Current state of scaling solutions
- Migrating from dYdX V3 to V4 & token utility
- DeFi vs. CeFi
- DeFi education & regulatory outreach

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Antonio Juliano on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3GV8bbl
- dYdX on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3wfq7IX
- dYdX exchange: http://bit.ly/3ZJHNKh

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Felix Lutsch. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/479

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#479 Antonio Juliano: dYdX – Decentralized Perpetual Exchanges

Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. But its scripting/ programming language was initially, intentionally, limited  for a few reasons, which meant that building new apps on bitcoin wasn't always easy.

Enter ethereum in 2014 -- a public blockchain platform that moved away from the "Swiss-army knife" approach to a more general protocol approach. This would in turn allow endless (and entirely new) use cases to be built on top of the blockchain, whether smart contracts or "app coins" that allow decentralized crowdfunding and decentralized business models. The results, at first glance, may seem just like a new way of financing a company. But it actually goes much deeper than that: They're really software protocols that are almost replacing centralized companies or what those companies would do. The possibilities are endless...

In this episode of the a16z Podcast, Ethereum inventor and co-creator Vitalik Buterin joins Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase (an a16z portfolio company) in conversation with Chris Dixon. The conversation covers everything from the politics of open source (and value of network effects even when those networks split) to the challenges of mainstreaming and scaling tech. And what happens next?

a16z Podcast: Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond

In this episode of the O’Reilly Data Show, I spoke with Christopher Nguyen, CEO and co-founder of Arimo. Nguyen and Arimo were among the first adopters and proponents of Apache Spark, Alluxio, and other open source technologies. Most recently, Arimo’s suite of analytic products has relied on deep learning to address a range of business problems.

Why Businesses Should Pay Attention to Deep Learning

Think of our inaugural episode of The AI Podcast as a guide for the perplexed.  Host Michael Copeland speaks with NVIDIA's Will Ramey about the history behind today's AI boom and the key concepts you need to know to get your head around a technology that's reshaping the world.

Ep. 1: Deep Learning 101 - Will Ramey, NVIDIA Senior Manager for GPU Computing

In this episode of the O’Reilly Bots Podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I talk with Richard Socher, chief scientist at Salesforce.  He was previously the founder and CEO of MetaMind, a deep learning startup that Salesforce acquired in 2016.  Socher also teaches the “Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing” course at Stanford University. Our conversation focuses on where deep learning and NLP are headed, and interesting current and near-future applications.

Richard Socher on the Future of Deep Learning

EPIC MeetUp : Quantum Electronics and Quantum Materials

Until the nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Jonathan Levy's Freaks of Fortune tells how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future.

For more on the book, visit http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674736351

Jonathan Levy explains the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America

Governments world over have come out with relief packages, payouts etc. to help especially the needy to tide over in this Covid-19 pandemic. Is it possible to improve ease of access/use for the intended citizens, enhance the targeting of public money, and all this within a framework of improved operational gains and auditability of public funds? 

Enhanced targetting of Public money for the needy, an improved cost efficient secure and transparent Pension administration and a Decentralized identity for citizens – all these in this 5th part of Blockchain in Public sector series.

Welcome to the Blockchain Hustle where I take a look at some interesting plays of how blockchain technology is opening up new business vistas across multiple industries. 

TIME STAMPED SHOW NOTES:

[00.17]    Introduction to the episode
[01.09]    Smart vouchers to low income citizens in Municipality of Groningen, Netherlands
[04:56]    Decentralized identity in Zug, Switzerland
[11.26]    Wrap up and prelude to next episode

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