# Shane Howley: Mainframe OS x Swarm | Swarm Orange Summit Madrid 2019

- Channel: [Swarm](https://streameth.org/swarm)
- Date: 2019-10-09
- Duration: 25:24
- Topics: mainframe, swarm orange summit, ethereum, ethswarm, blockchain
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-SQze2NhykwQ
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQze2NhykwQ

## Description

Shane Howley: Mainframe OS × Swarm

Mainframe OS is an environment for building, deploying and running dapps, that heavily depends on various Swarm technologies to enable decentralised, censorship-resistant storage and communications.
This talk gives a tour & live demo of the main features of Mainframe OS that are implemented using Swarm such as:

- Contacts
- Dapp deploying, sharing & updating
- Storage
- Communications

About Shane
Shane Howley is a conscientious software engineer with a passion for concurrent computing problems.
Shane has put blood, sweat and tears into a few startups over the last 10 years and is currently leading technology development for Mainframe.
He holds a Ph.D. in concurrent algorithms and an engineering bachelors degree, both from Trinity College Dublin.