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

Listen to the Audio

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

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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 arou...