Sam Williams
CEO (Archain) and PhD Candidate
Sam is the CEO of the Archain project, a system of permanent information storage. Sam has been building distributed systems with Erlang, from operating systems to web applications, for around 10 years. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Kent. When not hacking Erlang, Sam can be found climbing mountains and pondering geopolitics!
Media
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Fighting authoritarianism with blockchain and blockweaves - SLIDES - Code BEAM SF 2018
Article by Sam Williams
Slides from Sam Williams's talk "Fighting authoritarianism with blockchain and blockweaves" - Code BEAM SF 2018
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Article by Sam Williams
Using Erlang’s process-centric approach enabled Sam and his team to quickly design and implement the Arweave network. A component of their approach was to build an extensive testing framework utilising Erlang’s message passing and lightweight threading model, simulating networks under realistic conditions on a vast scale.
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