One of the many criticisms of the usefulness of smart contracts is known as the Oracle Problem. Plainly put, because a smart contract has no knowledge of reality it has to rely on a truth source, aka “an oracle” for it to receive external data. The “problem” is that while…

The architecture of my Amazon Web Services application was supposed to be simple. It’s two independent Lambda functions with a Redis cache between them for persistence. By purchasing Lambda compute power by the millisecond, I thought my app would be stupid cheap, possibly even free! I hadn’t even launched into…

If you’re a Coloradan who lives in either Boulder or Denver, chances are you’ve heard of the Epic Local Pass. It’s a pass that gives you unlimited local access to a number of the major ski resorts (Keystone, Vail, Arapahoe Basin, etc.) located a few hours west of Denver/Boulder. However…

This was a year long project I worked with Prof. Eric Keller, Matt Monaco, and Oliver Michel on to integrate the Bro intrusion detection system (IDS) into our own Yanc SDN controller. My main goal was to implement the ability to change scripts variables on the fly for the same…