41: Secure IoT Systems using Ockam with Mrinal Wadhwa

We talk with Mrinal Wadhwa about Ockam.io, the project and the company. They are taking on the ambitious goal of building an open protocol through Elixir and Rust libraries to enable secure and trusted IoT platforms. We learn about recurring problems that the IoT industry faces and how they are seeking to solve them differently. A very informative and interesting discussion!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/41 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/41)
Elixir Community News
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b) – Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion
- https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2021-results (https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2021-results) – EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation) new board members announced.
- https://members.erlef.org/join-us (https://members.erlef.org/join-us) – Become a member of the EEF
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFMLz3cpQ8c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFMLz3cpQ8c) – ash_admin gets it’s first beta release
- https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/027-ash-framework-with-zach-daniel/ (https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/027-ash-framework-with-zach-daniel/) – Previous interview with Zach Daniel about Ash Framework
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1372925822537981954 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1372925822537981954) – Jose Valim is teasing something new
- https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1374086404389666816 (https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1374086404389666816) – Chris McCord is teasing a good PR going into Phoenix LiveView
- https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/4 (https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/4) – Elixir's popularity measured by GitHub PRs comes in the top 20 languages!
- https://elements.heroku.com/buildpacks (https://elements.heroku.com/buildpacks) – Another measure of Elixir's adoption is Heroku's buildpack list page.
- https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/U5EhplEqda4/m/vl_StEWVAQAJ?pli=1 (https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/U5EhplEqda4/m/vl_StEWVAQAJ?pli=1) – Proposal to add syntax for specifying steps for ranges
- https://elixirforum.com/t/ecto-sqlite3-an-ecto3-sqlite3-adapter/38391 (https://elixirforum.com/t/ecto-sqlite3-an-ecto3-sqlite3-adapter/38391) – Ecto is gaining a Sqlite3 adapter
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://github.com/ockam-network (https://github.com/ockam-network) – Ockam organization on Github
- https://www.ockam.io/ (https://www.ockam.io/)
- https://twitter.com/mrinal/status/1359996338117566467 (https://twitter.com/mrinal/status/1359996338117566467)
- https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/discussions/864 (https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/discussions/864) – Contributor sponsorship program
- https://www.ockam.io/learn/blog/zero_ipo (https://www.ockam.io/learn/blog/zero_ipo) – Open company blog post titled "Zero-To-IPO - Charting Ockam's Route"
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/us/oldsmar-florida-hack-water-poison/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/us/oldsmar-florida-hack-water-poison/index.html)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA)
- https://www.dragos.com/resource/dragos-releases-annual-industrial-control-systems-cybersecurity-2020-year-in-review-report/ (https://www.dragos.com/resource/dragos-releases-annual-industrial-control-systems-cybersecurity-2020-year-in-review-report/)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewgregory/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewgregory/)
- https://www.influxdata.com/ (https://www.influxdata.com/)
- https://future.ventures/ (https://future.ventures/)
- https://www.okta.com/ (https://www.okta.com/)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/mrinal (https://twitter.com/mrinal) – Mrinal on Twitter
- https://twitter.com/Ockam (https://twitter.com/Ockam) – Ockam on Twitter
- https://github.com/mrinalwadhwa/ (https://github.com/mrinalwadhwa/) – Mrinal on Github
- https://www.ockam.io/ (https://www.ockam.io/) – Ockam website
- https://github.com/ockam-network/ (https://github.com/ockam-network/) – Ockam Organization on Github
- https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam (https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam) – Ockam project on Github
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)

We talk with Mrinal Wadhwa about Ockam.io, the project and the company. They are taking on the ambitious goal of building an open protocol through Elixir and Rust libraries to enable secure and trusted IoT platforms. We learn about recurring problems that the IoT industry faces and how they are seeking to solve them differently. A very informative and interesting discussion!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/41

Elixir Community News

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b – Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion
https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2021-results – EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation) new board members announced.
https://members.erlef.org/join-us – Become a member of the EEF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFMLz3cpQ8c – ash_admin gets it’s first beta release
https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/027-ash-framework-with-zach-daniel/ – Previous interview with Zach Daniel about Ash Framework
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1372925822537981954 – Jose Valim is teasing something new
https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1374086404389666816 – Chris McCord is teasing a good PR going into Phoenix LiveView
https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/4 – Elixir's popularity measured by GitHub PRs comes in the top 20 languages!
https://elements.heroku.com/buildpacks – Another measure of Elixir's adoption is Heroku's buildpack list page.
https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/U5EhplEqda4/m/vl_StEWVAQAJ?pli=1 – Proposal to add syntax for specifying steps for ranges
https://elixirforum.com/t/ecto-sqlite3-an-ecto3-sqlite3-adapter/38391 – Ecto is gaining a Sqlite3 adapter

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/ockam-network – Ockam organization on Github
https://www.ockam.io/
https://twitter.com/mrinal/status/1359996338117566467
https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/discussions/864 – Contributor sponsorship program
https://www.ockam.io/learn/blog/zero_ipo – Open company blog post titled "Zero-To-IPO - Charting Ockam's Route"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/us/oldsmar-florida-hack-water-poison/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA
https://www.dragos.com/resource/dragos-releases-annual-industrial-control-systems-cybersecurity-2020-year-in-review-report/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewgregory/
https://www.influxdata.com/
https://future.ventures/
https://www.okta.com/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/mrinal – Mrinal on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Ockam – Ockam on Twitter
https://github.com/mrinalwadhwa/ – Mrinal on Github
https://www.ockam.io/ – Ockam website
https://github.com/ockam-network/ – Ockam Organization on Github
https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam – Ockam project on Github

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
Email the show - [email protected]
Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward