Patrick O’Grady of Ava Labs | Application Infrastructure Part 2
Hashing It OutHashing It Out continues its series on blockchain infrastructure with part 2 of Application Infrastructure. In this episode, Corey, Dee and Jessie talk to Head of Engineering at Ava Labs, Patrick O’Grady. Prior to joining Ava Labs, Patrick worked as a software engineer at Coinbase where he created Rosetta — a system and method for the integration of components to facilitate executing transactions with different blockchain networks by using a standard API format. Patrick has a deep understanding of blockchain networks and the infrastructure surrounding them.
06:00 How does one construct a virtual machine (VM)
10:20 Tradeoffs of building with blockchain VM vs non-blockchain
16:05 Leveraging data to build the right infra for the application
18:55 Importance of maintaining blockchain states and tradeoffs for throughput
23:20 Bootstrapping peers and the evolving notion