Re:How to build an open source business
by mattgreg on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:50AM
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Great feedback! Product marketing is hard ;)
Basically, we abstract away the complexity of networking security for application developers. Let's say you are building an application that has 2 parts: A weather sensor in a field and a InfluxDB instance in AWS. The application logic is simple. Every 60 secs send a reading to the DB. Most developers could write that logic. However if you want to end-to-end encrypt it across multiple network hops, you need to go find a networking security team with expertise in cryptography. That's hard. OR you simply add some Ockam code to each endpoint and voila you have e2e channels.
To put it another way. Stripe lets an app dev process payments without understanding payment networks. Ockam lets you secure edge to cloud applications without understanding network security.
Basically, we abstract away the complexity of networking security for application developers. Let's say you are building an application that has 2 parts: A weather sensor in a field and a InfluxDB instance in AWS. The application logic is simple. Every 60 secs send a reading to the DB. Most developers could write that logic. However if you want to end-to-end encrypt it across multiple network hops, you need to go find a networking security team with expertise in cryptography. That's hard. OR you simply add some Ockam code to each endpoint and voila you have e2e channels.
To put it another way. Stripe lets an app dev process payments without understanding payment networks. Ockam lets you secure edge to cloud applications without understanding network security.