DeveloperWeek NYC

[Update: after years of R&D on the world’s first moving target defense data protection platform with federal agencies and Fortune 100 R&D labs, we are productizing & commercializing CryptoMove’s moving target data protection platform as Tholos Key Vault, a product for managing keys and secrets. You can check out our private beta here.]

I attended this year’s DeveloperWeek NYC (henceforth: DWNYC) which took place within the friendly confines of Greenpoint Brooklyn, itself a stone’s throw away from the East River and the gleaming visage of the proud Manhattan skyline.

As I walked into the Brooklyn Expo Center, I could sense the energy buzzing in the air. The vibe and attire stand in stark contrast to trading, security, and government/smart city conferences I have attended in the past. Where the others are dominated by men and women in power suits, striding around with their portfolios tucked under their arms (I’m looking at you, Mad Men), DWNYC is much more reminiscent of Silicon Valley (both the area and the show): tshirts, backbacks/messenger bags and MacBooks abound.

DWNYC exhibitors range widely from staffing to development collaboration tools to data analytics, and given the times we live in, of course there were also the requisite blockchain companies. There were very few industry incumbents, my back-of-the-envelope guesstimate has it at 60–80% startups. But they are by no means inexperienced. Conversations with the booth teams revealed many serial entrepreneurs, some with recent 9 figure exits.

Some themes:

• Developer-centric tools are big: Firms like CodeStream and Symphony are wrestling with how to secure and persist communications during the development life cycle. CodePilot.ai helps with code discovery, Puppet makes configuration discovery and management more automated, and GitKraken provides a GUI for Git.
• Data/Analytics: InterSystems and data.world both makes their data analytics platforms available to developers, meanwhile Logi Analytics focuses on embedding analytics on businesses web presence, and Scaled Inference, Veritone and AppNexus all approach data from the AI and ML points of view.
• Security looms large: Cloudflare is tackling security from within the backbone. Yubico’s keys help with additional security on the authentication front. Virgil Security packages a toolkit for developers in making end-to-end encryption much more palatable to deploy.
• At your Service: There continues to be a proliferation of different verticals that can be accessed from a XXX-as-a-Service model, including Tango for Rewards-as-a-Service and OpSourced for DevOps-as-a-Service
• Quantum Supremacy/Advantage is nigh?: Microsoft gave a talk about how society (and the Big M in particular) is on the cusp of a quantum breakthrough. This is on the heels of a similar comment a SINET NY speaker recently made about Google’s D-Wave (which ironically was debunked off-record by an actual Googler at the same conference). Time to bone up on qubits, superpositions, entanglements, decoherence. This last one is what I sound like after too many Captain and Cokes (wait, or is that incoherence?). What will the world look like after classical encryption ceases to matter?

We at CryptoMove are excited to be joining the thriving and dynamic development community in providing a democratized data protection service that is at the same time the most (dare I say “post-quantum”?) secure datavault technology in the world while never losing sight of being a collaboration and developer-friendly tool.

As my ancestors were purported to have said: “May [we all] live in interesting times”.

P.S. My first blog post, ever! Next milestone: my first comment trolls…