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November 2020 newsletter 

Dear Dock community,

Well, winter is very nearly upon us and the change of season not only brings with it a change in temperature, it also reflects a change in focus at Dock as we divide our time between research and development of our offerings and ensuring their adoption. 

With the launch of our mainnet in late September, Dock has started discussions with a number of companies interested to find out how they can leverage our technology to grow their business. As the saying goes, it is better to show people your plans rather than tell them, and with this in mind Dock has created a demo application called Certs that shows prospective issuers the types of apps they can create on Dock.

We also have a huge milestone planned for December, the migration of Dock tokens onto our mainnet. As the article linked below explains, this will make the network self-sufficient and start to provide revenue streams for Dock and partner companies. 

For good measure, we’ve also included some other Dock news and more general information about blockchain-based identity and verifiable credentials.

Certs Demo App

We’re excited to share that Certs, our reference web app, is now available for demo. We have built this open-source app to show developers and issuers how easily Dock’s technology can be leveraged to issue, manage, share, and verify credentials.

Breaking down Blockchain
Redefining recruiting and credentialing with a verifiable, permanent network. Dock COO Elina Cadouri was interviewed for Cornerstone’s HR blog. 

Token migration

Regular followers of Dock will know that we launched Dock’s mainnet on the 30th of September. Now that we are satisfied with its security and stability, the time has come to add our own token to Dock’s blockchain. This event is called a token migration, it’s due to start on the 8th of December, and you can find out more about the key role that Dock token will play in the network here. 

Verifiable credentials and blockchain in the news

The use of digital credentials for travel

Specifications for the first digital travel credential (DTC) type have been endorsed by the Technical Advisory Group for the Traveller Identification Programme (TAG/TRIP) at International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), bringing digital identity-based travel one step closer to reality.

How COVID-19 Has Revealed Healthcare’s Blockchain Use Cases
Blockchain technology has somewhat infamously been described as “a solution in search of a problem,” but as the healthcare industry responds to the demands of the pandemic, several valuable use cases have surfaced that could benefit from employing the emerging technology.

From Voting To Social Media: What Does The Future Hold For Digital Identity On The Blockchain
One of the biggest emerging use cases for blockchain is in the realm of decentralized digital identity, wherein governments and enterprises collect, verify and manage citizens’ personal data on-chain. The aim is to replace the legacy of various storage systems and databases governed by unwieldy and often insecure centralized authorities and agencies.

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The Dock team

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A central focus of this year’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon has been on sharing the experience of the end users of Kubernetes. View in browser » ISSUE 243: Kubernetes from the User’s Perspective “Failure is going to happen. What’s important is: Can your system mitigate that failure for what’s important to you?” ___ Lorne Kligerman, Gremlin Cloud architects overlook some requirements when assessing new infrastructure. Sure, security and cost are table stakes, but according to The New Stack’s Next Generation Infrastructure-as-a-Service study, cloud architects were half as likely to believe that storage, standardized architecture and interoperability are essential when picking new cloud infrastructure as compared to the CTOs and other technology decision-makers surveyed. Because of their job role, the people designing and integrating cloud platforms understand that there is little black and white in the world of compatibility. If an enterprise plans to permanently employ a cloud architect or cloud platform team, perhaps this level of uncertainty is acceptable. If not, then cloud architects will have to swallow their pride and accept more requirements, even if it creates lock-in to a specific standard or storage type. In this episode of The New Stack Makers livestream, five guests each offer a hands-on “lightning demo” of their respective open source cloud native projects, as a teaser for this week’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. The lightning demo guests feature Michelle Noorali, senior software engineer at Microsoft, on Open Service Mesh (OSM) service mesh; Phil Prasek, principal product manager at Upbound, on the Crossplane control plane; James Roper, cloud architect at Lightbend, on the Cloudstate distributed state management framework; Torin Sandall, Styra vice president of open source and co-creator of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy engine; and Ryan McKinley, vice president of applications at Grafana Labs, on the Grafana monitoring software. Kubernetes from the User’s Perspective A central focus of this year’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon has been on sharing the experience of the end users of Kubernetes. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has a renewed focus on the enterprises and web-scale companies that have found much value in scalable cloud native technologies. Such users can provide valuable insights to their peers and even contribute to the upstream codebases. So, naturally, many of the most fascinating talks at this year’s event were from engineers and developers who are using Kubernetes and associated cloud native tools in full production settings. Perhaps most surprising, for us, was a keynote talk given by Apple Software Engineer Alena Prokharchyk. We had heard of Apple using the open source orchestration engine, but had no idea to the extent of the planned usage by the consumer hardware giant. In short, Apple will run the majority of its workloads on Kubernetes clusters.  The company’s developers, she said, “want to adopt cloud native tools for better debugging, logging, monitoring and tracing of their apps. Our responsibility as platform developers is to provide a scalable orchestration layer with secure resource isolation and reliable scheduling.” Other CNCF technologies are also being used in highly-scalable environments. Another revelation from the show this week is that Slack is now using CNCF’s Vitess to manage over 99% of the messages and other associated data rolling through its system. Vitess provides a way to spread a MySQL database system across multiple servers, in order to vastly improve the scalability and responsiveness of the database as a whole. In this case, Vitess broke Slack’s gigantic MySQL database into 1,000 shards, each responding to user requests with no downtime. Making Kubernetes easier to digest by developers is a major focus across these organizations. In another talk, Adobe’s Colin Murphy described how this company used the Kubernetes API to build out developer workflows. This approach allows devs to deploy apps to multiple cloud providers or data centers on Kubernetes at scale. Adobe even developed an open source client — written in Go — to help app devs deploy directly to production without learning Kubernetes at all. Although KubeCon wraps on Friday, The New Stack will be crawling over the wealth of information we picked up during our time there for weeks to come. So check back often at TheNewStack.io to read more great stories about the growing adoption of Kubernetes and other cloud native tools.   How an Event-Driven Architecture Drives Business Agility An event-driven architecture (EDA) allows developers to create dynamic applications that inject speed and responsiveness into business processes, helping companies operate more efficiently. Not surprisingly, EDAs have sparked interest among organizations pursuing the benefits of digitally transforming through the use of modern, cloud-focused application development processes, such as DevOps, and technologies, such as containerized Kubernetes applications. Red Hat OpenShift Presses Outward to the Edge, Enhances Developer Experience While Red Hat officially launched OpenShift 4.6 in late October, the company has introduced a number of new features around its managed Kubernetes offering just in time for this week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, including updates around serverless, its Quarkus Kubernetes native Java stack, long-term support, and the ability to run remote workloads without requiring Kubernetes.

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WORD OF THE DAY November 23, 2020

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The importance of collecting data around the wellbeing of young people is an issue close to our own hearts: last week, we released our own report showing how data can help us to understand the impact the pandemic on children’s lives, as well as on those of parents and teachers. There has been fresh controversy this week around the algorithms that are used to guide policy decisions. In England, the government is set to revise its controversial plans for updating the algorithm used to inform where new housing should be built. The update was intended to better account for housing needs across the country based on affordability and demand. However, it was quickly dubbed a â€˜mutant algorithm’, with claims that it will leave the North underdeveloped and the South overdeveloped.  With algorithms seeming to generate unintended, or biased ‘advice’ in high-profile cases like the house building example, and the exams fiasco this summer , the tech company Synthesized has released a free tool that aims to detect and remove algorithmic bias. According to Synthesized, the tool highlights areas where bias is detected in uploaded datasets, and can even automatically ‘rebalance’ the biased data. We can’t vouch for its efficacy but its likely we’ll see more similar technologies emerging onto the market. And finally, the World Bank has released the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020 â€“ an interactive data visualisation venture that illustrates the world’s progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Not only is it important work, but it’s easy on the eyes too! 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