Malachite with Adi Seredinschi

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Allen Wyma talks with Adi Seredinschi, creator of Malachite, a Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT) consensus engine implemented in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Meet Adi Seredinsky, Director of Product at Informal Systems
• [@5:23] - From Go to Rust: The Malachite rewrite of Tendermint
• [@9:26] - Technical challenges of the original Go codebase
• [@16:56] - Why Rust was chosen for the rewrite
• [@22:23] - Quint: A developer-friendly language for formal methods
• [@33:48] - Performance gains from the Rust rewrites
• [@40:42] - Closing thoughts

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma