The Vision
Benjamin Bengfort, Ph.D.
Founder/CEO
Bio
Dr. Benjamin Bengfort is co-founder and CEO of Rotational Labs. Benjamin is an experienced systems engineer, programmer and data scientist. Driven by a desire to build large systems with many users that have a global impact, he takes pride in solutions where many small interactions combine to create complex dynamics. As the CEO of Rotational Labs, his goal is to apply advanced distributed computing, networking, open source software, education, and machine learning to solutions that allow us to collaborate more effectively around the world to solve big problems.
Blog Posts Written by Benjamin
A Distributed Systems Maze
The most exciting applications coming out these days are the ones that aim big — aspiring to reach a global audience of users across regions, languages, timezones, and data centers. Not only are they in the exhilarating position of owning …
Apr 6, 2021Project Planning With Block Based Dependencies
Good software development achieves complexity by describing the interactions of simple components. Of course, this is harder than it sounds, and if Mark Twain had been a software developer he would have likely said: “if I had more …
Mar 24, 2021Documenting a gRPC API with OpenAPI
gRPC makes the specification and implementation of networked APIs a snap. But what is the simplest way to document a gRPC API? There seem to be some hosted providers by Google, e.g. SmartDocs, but I have yet to find a gRPC-specific tool. …
Feb 12, 2021Hello World
Right now only half the world is awake. For successful planetary-scale networking, it’s time for diurnal intelligently distributed systems.
Jan 21, 2021