Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Let's take back the internet! Learn about Spritely's work to re-decentralize the net with new foundational technologies that put users in control.

Today's internet is fragile and increasingly dependent on large, centralized web services.  The software industry is concerned with building things that scale up, but these services ultimately serve not the users but corporate gatekeepers.  To regain agency of our computing and create more resilient networks, decentralization offers a solution. By scaling down and scaling wide, we can build robust applications for healthier online communities.

Decentralization comes with a catch, however.  Removing centralization inherently adds architectural complexity.  Unfortunately, there are no mainstream frameworks available to handle all of the hard stuff.  There's a steep barrier to entry and no clear onboarding path. Will decentralized technology ever have its Ruby on Rails moment?  The Spritely Institute is working on it!  Spritely is a nonprofit that is building the next generation of decentralized networking technology, where resilient, peer-to-peer, secure applications isn't the special case for mega-geniuses... it's the default thing you get using Spritely's tech! In this talk, Christine and David will cover topics such as the actor model and object capability security, and describe a tech stack that makes secure, decentralized programming the default way to build.