{"id":14242,"date":"2016-05-26T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2018-02-15T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:40:17","slug":"blockchain-and-govs-enter-the-cloud-foundry-summit-scene-on-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/blockchain-and-govs-enter-the-cloud-foundry-summit-scene-on-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain and Govs Enter the Cloud Foundry Summit Scene on Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Other recaps:<\/em> Day 1<\/a> | Day 2<\/a> | Day 3<\/strong> | BOSH Day<\/a> | Top 100 Quotes<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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  • What’s on the agenda?<\/a><\/li>
  • Adoption within governments<\/a><\/li>
  • Blockchain and Hyperledger<\/a><\/li>
  • The roots of Cloud Foundry<\/a><\/li>
  • Winners, implied and inferred<\/a><\/li>
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    <\/span>What’s on the agenda?<\/span><\/h3>\n

    The Australian government, a brief history of Cloud Foundry, and blockchain were on my agenda for Day 3 of the Cloud Foundry Summit 2016 in Santa Clara, CA.<\/p>\n

    There was much more to it than that, of course. It’s a pity, one can only be in one place at a time, while there were a bunchful of awesome sessions to attend.<\/p>\n

    By the third day of a big technical event like this, people have loosened up a bit, have (one hopes) checked off most of the items on their to-do list, and are ready to talk about what they’ve seen, where they’ve been, and where they’re going.<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>Adoption within governments<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Lindsay Holmwood<\/a>, who heads the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) within the Australian government, told a tale of grappling with more than 1,500 websites within the federal bureaucracy. Taking a rather aggressive continuous integration approach, he noted that new releases are now \u201ca non-event.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    The team aims for consistent \u201czero-downtime deploys\u201d and has found some content contributions to be as valuable as code contributions. The sugar on top came with his declaration that “we take an open-source approach, so we can contribute back to the community. Cloud Foundry is an important piece of that strategy.”<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>Blockchain and Hyperledger<\/span><\/h3>\n

    A brisk 30-minute presentation from IBM’s Gurvinder Ahluwalia<\/a> and Christopher Ferris<\/a> on the wonders of blockchain technology\u2014specifically the Hyperledger Project, which currently centers around IBM’s Open Blockchain technology\u2014held a captive audience.<\/p>\n

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    Readers of this website can find our recent coverage<\/a> of this topic; much of the audience at the Cloud Foundry Summit seemed to be new to it. The two IBMers went through protocols, concepts such as smart contracts and Dapps; and mentioned the five key components of assets, ledgers, participants, transactions, and contracts.<\/p>\n

    Chris, who also serves as the chair of the Technical Steering Committee for the Hyperledger Project, also discussed different methods of consensus and validation, two things essential to blockchain functionality.<\/p>\n

    “Think of blockchain more in terms of business before you think of it in terms of technology.” \u2014Gurvinder Ahluwalia and Christopher Ferris, IBM<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    A key message was that blockchain is not just for bitcoin cryptocurrency anymore.<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>The roots of Cloud Foundry<\/span><\/h3>\n

    A special appearance by Apcera’s Derek Collison<\/a>, who also happens to be the key inventor of the original Cloud Foundry, gave some perspective to progress that’s been made over the past few years.<\/p>\n

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    Interesting PoV from @derekcollison<\/a> on the early days of #PaaS<\/a> A big tent @cloudfoundry<\/a> @IBMcloud<\/a> @IBMBluemix<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/RuzSAYegah<\/a><\/p>\n

    — Jeffrey Borek (@jeffborek) May 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n