An interview with Brian Behlendorf
Back on the Block
© By Swapnil Bhartiya
Apache developer, Brian Behlendorf, talks about Hyperledger and blockchains.
Brian Behlendorf is nothing short of an open source celebrity. Behlendorf was one of the primary developers of an open source project that revolutionized the web: the Apache web server. In 2003, MIT Technology Review listed Behlendorf among the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
I first met Behlendorf back in 2005, when I lived in India, and I would often seek his input for my stories. But Behlendorf took a sabbatical from the open source world for several years. Early this year, The Linux Foundation appointed Behlendorf as the executive director to head their Hyperledger project. Hyperledger, which launched in December 2105, is an industry-wide effort to develop and enhance open standards for blockchain transaction technology. Blockchain is best known as the technology at the core of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, but many experts believe it has much wider application to a range of tasks, from banking, to medicine, to real estate.
I asked Behlendorf what he has been doing all these years – and what brought him to The Linux Foundation.
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