Work
Companies
- Long-term crypto fund; Due diligience & independent research2022-now
- Long-term crypto fund; Running validators & internal infrastructure2020-2022
- Blockchain Intelligence2020-2020
- On-chain data provider for quantitative trading firms2018-2020
- Smart Contract Monitoring2018-2019
- Analytics for P2P CDN2017-2018
- NLP-based Recommender Systems2016-2017
- Blackbox Optimization2014-2016
Open Source
- Scala DSL for Unit-Testing Kafka Streams Topologies2016-2022
- Imports blockchain data into Kafka ecosystem2019-2020
- Scala JSON-RPC client for Blockchain Nodes2020-2020
- Mouseless paged-reader for the browser2020-2020
- Low-latency Kafka Streams State Stores using Memcached2019-2020
- Intervals for Twitter Util2017-2018
- Twitter Streaming API Example with Kafka Streams2017-2018
Topic of Blockchain
The Multi-Chain Future
A multi-chain future with monetary value and trustless data flowing freely and inter-chain, would be more adaptable to changing conditions in the environment, more scalable, more resilient and naturally synergies would emerge. [...]
Generic and typesafe Blockchain-RPC
At TokenAnalyst we decided to build a thin layer library called blockchain-rpc to only connect, download and parse raw data into abstract data types in a typesafe Scala way. In the principle of: do one thing and do it well. Its open source and wed like to invite you to collaborate on it. [...]
Topic of Kafka
Kafcache: Memcached + Kafka Streams
Introducing Kafcache a Memcached Kafka state store bridge for processing topologies in which low-latency matters. At TokenAnalyst we take low-latency seriously and use Memcached for our machine learning model application, for instance labelling, but also for lookup intensive data transformations. [...]
Tunnel your Kafka Cluster from AWS
Tunneling your AWS Kafka topics to your local developer box for fun and profit: Experimenting with real data is way more fun, plus, it decreases the turn-over if the developer has to cope with complex data. In the latter case, one can easily consume data and build test fixtures for a new stream processor, or test against real data directly (fail fast). [...]
Topic of Scala
Cross-version Scala Logging with SBT
In this article, I want to give a beginner example of how to use SBTs cross version feature for building for both e.g. Scala 2.10 and Scala 2.11 by also solving a real-world dependency problem with Typesafes Scala Logging. [...]
Topic of Minimalism
Via Negativa, Hoarding Principles and Minimalism
Nassim Taleb argues that the best way for a person or organization to become antifragile (something that gains from setbacks and chaos rather than just survives) is to first decrease their downside. How can you eliminate the downside? By avoiding it. The act of not-doing something stupid, has a neutral or positive effect. Its improvement through substraction. Substraction also leads to focus. And this is what minimalism is all about. [...]
Countermeasures Against Phone Addiction
Our phones are omni-present in our attention-driven world. And most of us have an intimate relationship with it. But are we in control? Companies optimize for engagement, and engagement with an app means for a user to be hooked. Short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops are a central part of data centric companies such as Facebook and Google, and their bought companies, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, to retrieve as much data from a user as possible. But in fact, wasting their valueable lifetime. [...]
Topic of Health
Regaining Fitness in a COVID-19 World
After a three months stay in self-isolation for safety I got lazy, fat and mentally stressed and slightly depressed. The fear of COVID-19 infection kept me inside, until I couldnt stand my unfitness anymore. I hit my rock-bottom in fitness and to my surprise I didnt make COVID-19 responsible for this. Its simply not me. I accepted my defeat. And started from zero again. [...]