Mike Brunt talks about “ColdFusion and the Blockchain Revolution” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

 

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What is the Blockchain?

DLT = Distributed Ledger Technology

Transactions and identities

2009 Bitcoin launch - decentralized value exchange, peer to peer

Etherium - BLT plus code (DAPs)

Easier to use

Coins based on ETH

Ethereum Solidity (like Javascript)

Smart Contract

Other blockchains

Compare Blockchain to a network level protocol

Compare Blockchain to music P2P (distributed) vs Napster (centralized)

Disintermediation

Permissioned vs Permissionless blockchain (self-governing)

Why does it matter to CFers?

Blockchain uses REST API

CF is the easiest way to create apps that use REST API

Calling Blockchain APIs from CF using the API manager

Using CF as the best glue between the blockchain and databases

The data req in a blockchain app is still in databases

CommandBox now officially supported by Adobe

Blockchain projects that Mike is working on

Land Dollar - coin backed by land

Digi FreeLabs - biofuels

AI and Blockchain

JVM tuning and AI?

Blockchain vs GDPR approach to privacy

Ownership of your own data

Self-sovereign identity - control which parts of your data you share

Blockchain evolution vs web evolution and CF

Lack of developers

H1B

Overhyped

CF revolutionized web development

EOS $4 Billion raised

CF and Java for blockchain development

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

CFUGs

Sample apps

ForgeBox

What did you enjoy at CF Summit West last year?

Mentioned in this episode

Ethereum

Bitcoin

Ethereum Solidity

Go-lang (Google)

Blockchain groupings hyperledger Linux foundation (Apache founder)

Visual dev tools

Eugene, OR Blockchain user group

Digi FreeLabs

IDX broker

Industry 4.0 and IoT

Digital Twin

Estonian e-residency

Goldman Sachs 300,000 hours of legal work done by an AI legal system

FusionReactor

SeeFusion

GDPR

Self sovereign identity

Dock.io

Sovrin

Indy hyperledger project for self sovereign identity

Bitcoin News

ForgeBox

ColdBox

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Bio

Mike Brunt

Mike Brunt was born in Northern England in 1948.  It was a time of austerity for the British people who had rationing in place due to the effects of the Second World War.  He pursued a management career in transportation equipment becoming Director of Excess Stock at British Leyland Truck and Bus.  He moved to the USA in 1989 and eventually took up a career path in technology, coinciding with the emergence of the World Wide Web.  Mike then became involved in Teleradiology working alongside Kodak, Lucent Technologies and GTE. Currently Mike is still deeply involved in technology, being a specialist in capacity planning and tuning for Java systems and he is becoming ever more involved with Blockchain and peer-to-peer based infrastructure.

In addition to his career path Mike is a composer and musical having been involved in the creation of 11 electronic music albums, Mike also paints with well over 100 paintings located in Los Angeles, New Zealand and Eugene Oregon.  Lastly Mike is a Permaculture Certified Designer and lives on a 5 acre farm in the Eugene area of Oregon.

Mike Brunt is also known as CF Whisperer.

Links

Twitter

FaceBook

Instagram

CF Whisperer

Java Mem

JVM Services

Interview Transcript:

Michaela 0:00

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mike Brunt sometimes known as the CF whisperer. And he has been doing cold fusion since version one. And he's an expert at tuning cold fusion web service. And he's done it for many large organizations around the world. And what you may not know about Mike, he's also a music composer, and a musician and a painter, and a permaculture. Gardner, I guess, the right phrases for

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that.

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So

Michaela 0:31

he's a world traveler. He grew up in England and being in Los Angeles, New Zealand, now he's in Eugene, Oregon. So welcome, Mike. Yes, thank you. And thanks for George family meal. You know, a low in Britain when you say having me all I mean, she's pulling from the lake, but that's another story. No, no, we won't do too much like pulling, I'm sure. Right. We are going to be talking about cold fusion and the blockchain revolution. So I'm sure many people listening have heard about it coin and various other blockchain projects. But how can we interact with them using cold fusion? And you know, what does that why true that matter to call cold fusion developers and why cold fusion is the best language to do this in

and some of the blockchain projects that Mike is currently working on, we'll talk about as well as using the cold fusion API manager to make things easier for all this. And if we get time we will wrap a bit about blockchain versus the GDPR PR, European approach to privacy. I think he might have some controversial views there, Mike

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never.

Michaela 1:41

Um, and we'll also if we have time talk about blockchain evolution and how that compares to the web development evolution that cold fusion was part of back around late 90s or 2000. So let's start off with just in case anyone listening doesn't know what the blockchain is. Can you just succinctly tell us what what is the blockchain yeah

Mike Brunt 2:06

so I'll start by saying when I shot it to become involved I've started to become involved when if cereal came out it didn't really feel the second biggest name in the blockchain cryptocurrency world

Bitcoin still out there in front even know people criticize criticized it for me to eternity in one way or another. And I'd like to dispel some of those mix too. But so Bitcoin was the first use of blockchain technology. And another another term for blockchain technology, which is probably more accurate nowadays is distributed ledger technology or the LT

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Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

 

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