Antony Denyer

In GoQuorum, members of a network can communicate privately using smart contracts. The way it works is relatively simple. First, a standard ethereum transaction occurs in public with the input field containing an enclave key. Then, that enclave key is used to fetch the private contract from your private enclave.... [Read More]

Testcontainers is a great project that helps you orchestrate throwaway docker container instances. I wanted to integrate test some smart contracts that I’d been working on with a real ethereum network rather than with ganache. [Read More]

GCP PubSub is an off the shelf hosted message queue system. It offers some reasonably standard features. Conceptually GCP supports topics and subscriptions. You post a message onto a topic, and they fan out to subscriptions. Each subscription can have one or many consumers, with messages being load balanced between... [Read More]

divide et impera “To gain or maintain power by generating tension among others, especially those less powerful, so that they cannot unite in opposition.” https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/divide+and+conquer [Read More]

A reasonably common abuse I see is abusing exceptions as a form of control flow. If it’s inside a single method, it’s not too bad, but it’s easy to get to the point where exceptions get thrown or re-thrown and is dealt with elsewhere in the code. [Read More]