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Beast

42 min Episode 86
Beast

Episode synopsis

Rob and Jason are joined by Vinnie Falco to talk about the Beast HTTP and Web Sockets library.
Vinnie Falco started programming on an Apple II+ in 1982. He did significant work on Canvas, an early 1990s desktop publishing program that starting on the Macintosh. A while later he wrote BearShare - a Gnutella compatible file sharing program.
After that Vinnie joined up with Ripple, a company that is developing a global financial settlement network built on top of a decentralized cryptocurrency and its associated ledger. Ripple has graciously given him the opportunity to develop and publish Beast, the HTTP and WebSocket library written in C++ and used in Ripple.
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Vinnie Falco

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Links

Beast Library
CppCon 2016: Vinnie Falco "Introducing Beast: HTTP and WebSockets C++ library"
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