Fission co-founder & CTO Brooklyn Zelenka presented the closing keynote on Wednesday at ElixirConf 2021. The full talk title is The Jump to Hyperspace: Light speed, anti-entropy, & moving past the cloud.

Video
Slides
The full slide deck is available on Notist »
A few selected slides below:




Reactions
It was great to see some of the live reactions from the conference:
@expede blowing minds 🤯 with the future of computing and the internet @ElixirConf #myixirstatus #ElixirConf2021 pic.twitter.com/f8P30FAShw
— Sophie DeBenedetto (@sm_debenedetto) October 13, 2021
“Latency is a physical limit”
— Tommy Groshong (@tgroshon) October 13, 2021
“Edge [computing] dominates at less than 40ms”
“Speed of causality” and “causal islands”
“Walmart edge. 90% of Americans live within 16km to a Walmart, so fill them with servers”
Quotables from @expede at #ElixirConf2021 #myelixirstatus
And people are enjoying watching the recorded version as well:
@expede has never done a bad talk. Edge computing and web 3 sit back and get ready to have your MIND BLOWN.https://t.co/xRPlDckpMW
— Adz (@ItizAdz) October 25, 2021
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