Written by Alexandra Moxin
Erik Reppel was one of the winners at Hack the North, Canada’s biggest Hackathon, in 2016 and works for Coinbase. Erik is finishing his B.SEng. at UVIC majoring in Computer Science. You can find Erik on twitter @programmer.
Robert Reppel was formerly CTO and Partner at Adaptech Solutions and was a co-host of the Microservices Design and Implementation Meetup. A true Polyglot, Robert has more than 25 years of practical, hands-on experience as a Software and Systems Architect, fixer, aligner, deliverer and explainer of products and projects within all aspects of the software development life cycle.
We cover a lot in this episode, so get comfortable and hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it!
Things we cover in this episode
- Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies
- Industry trends in the past year
- The recent SEC securities ruling and paper
- Network effects
- Why event streams are good for blockchain and cryptocurrency systems
- Using Adaptech’s PaaS and webeventstorming.com to win the UBC Blockathon
- Team Consentaur’s UBC Blockathon Win! (Blockchain Hackathon)
- NOTA
- Centralized and decentralized applications
- Blockchain, CQRS and event sourced systems
- Merkle trees and asynchronous systems, RACE conditions, eventual consistency
- Byzantine generals problem, trusted nodes
- Proof of work mining, nonce and hashing conditions
- Zero knowledge proofs
- SegWit (Segregated Witness) and the Lightning Network
- Stream based architecture, blockchain cryptocurrency, AI, Machine Learning
- Robert’s predictions for the future of event based / event sourced systems
- Greg Young’s 10 years of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
- Erik’s predictions for the future of cryptocurrency
Hope you enjoy our interview with Erik and Robert!
Stay tuned for news, announcements and our next interview!
Show Links
- Hack the North
- UBC Blockathon Winner Announcement, Team Consentaur
- Coinbase
- UVIC - Computer Science Program
- Microservices Design and Implementation with DDD/CQRS/ES Meetup
- Adaptech Blog: Blockchain, Hype or Necessity?
- NOTA
- Satoshi Nakamoto
- Merkle Trees
- Proof of Work and Trustless Consensus
- Nonce
- Edge Networks
- SegWit (Segregated Witness)
- Lightning Networks
- SegWit and Lightning Networks
- Bitcoin
- Greg Young’s A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
- Zero Knowlege Proof
- Web 3.0
