Rob and Jason are joined by Vinnie Falco to talk about the Beast HTTP and Web Sockets library. Vinnie Falco started programming on an Apple II+ in 1982. He did significant work on Canvas, an early 1990s desktop publishing program that starting on the Macintosh. A while later he wrote BearShare - a Gnutella compatible file sharing program. After that Vinnie joined up with Ripple, a company that is developing a global financial settlement network built on top of a decentralized cryptocurrency and its associated ledger. Ripple has graciously given him the opportunity to develop and publish Beast, the HTTP and WebSocket library written in C++ and used in Ripple. News Winners of the 2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards The Salami Method g++7 is C++17 complete .NET Rocks: C++ for a New Generation with Kate Gregory Catch 1.6 release Order Your Members Vinnie Falco @falcovinnie Vinnie Falco's GitHub Links Beast Library CppCon 2016: Vinnie Falco "Introducing Beast: HTTP and WebSockets C++ library" Ripple Sponsor Backtrace