Decentralization, with Brooklyn Zelenka (Fission) - S02E04

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In this episode we speak to Brooklyn Zelenka, CTO at Fission, a decentralized app framework for the future of web apps at the edge. We discuss the relevance of blockchain to web3 and decentralized web apps, why developers should avoid managing backend servers, the challenges of doing authentication and identity with local clients, and why web browser APIs are the place to build, not the native operating system.

About Brooklyn Zelenka

Brooklyn is the Co-Founder and CTO at Fission, where her team is building the next generation of web dev tools for the future of computing on the edge - levelling the playing field for teams of all sizes.

She founded the Vancouver functional programming meetup, and is the author of several Elixir libraries including Witchcraft & Exceptional. She was previously an Ethereum Core Developer, and continues to push the broader web3 space forward with standards like UCAN auth and the Webnative File System.

Things mentioned:

• Twitter Bluesky
• IndexedDB
• Electron
• Google BigQuery
• Starlink
• Cloud BigTable
• Apache Hadoop
• Amazon S3
• Location transparency
• Decentralized Identity Foundation
• Restful API
• Elixir
• Elm
• Haskell
• Go
• Web Assembly
• Rust
• NixOS
• esbuild
• GNU Emacs
• Vim clutch
• Tailscale
• ElixirConf
• Discord

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Recorded: 2021-10-26.