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Blockchain: The Oracle Problems
Paul Sztorc talks about why the oracle problem is so hard (the historical evolution of failures, why they fail), and the basics of blockchain ("blockchain as immortal software", ledger "rents").
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Big Ideas: Decentralized Storage
David Vorick talks about the need for distributed/decentralized storage, real life use cases for distributed storage systems, dealing with data loss in a distributed system, overviewing IPFS and Sia.
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Case Study: Alternate Blockchains
Jeremy Rand talks about Namecoin and Monero, the advantages to alternate blockchains, and risks of using chains that are not as secured or are merge mined.
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Practical Blockchains: Building on Bitcoin
Peter Todd answers the questions: why use Bitcoin over other blockchains, what is safe, future proof ways to peg data to Bitcoin's blockchain and what is Bitcoin script, and how it can be used.
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The Journey to a Customer Experience Driven Enterprise
Laura Heritage discusses key aspects - Cloud services and API-led integrations - essential to having success in building a customer experience driven enterprise.
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Reaching Agreement: eSignature API strategies
Larry Kluger discusses strategies for designing and using APIs to deal with electronic signatures.
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Practical Cryptography & Blockchain Panel
The panel discusses the most important trends involving the blockchain today and fields questions from the audience. Topics covered: smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and blockchains.
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Observability, Event Sourcing and State Machines
Peter Lawrey explains the use cases and practicalities for having downstream services consuming all of the state changes of an upstream service in order to provide automated insight of services.
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Avoiding Alerts Overload from Microservices
Sarah Wells talks about the FT team that currently has over 150 microservices in production. Wells shares how her team regain control of their inboxes and their time, and offers some tips and tricks.
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Automated Testing of (RESTful) API Documentation
Rouven Wessling presents what's currently possible when it comes to testing documentation, how to start testing API documentation written using API Blueprints and how to incorporate it into a workflow
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Lufthansa Open API Fueling Digital Transformation in Travel
Reinhart Lanegger exemplifies how Lufthansa uses APIs to perform a transformation of their company.
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Establishing a Microservice Foundation
Mike Amundsen discusses the benefits and operating principles of microservices.