Let me provide a brief history/overview and answer the questions that have been asked as best I can. I started vanadium about three years ago to build a secure rpc and naming system that would make it easier to build distributed applications, including those on mobile and embedded devices/IoT. Security was a central goal. Distributed, synchronzsed storage has long been a pain point, especially when devices are often disconnected and we built syncbase to address that need.
I left Google in May of this year and joined Grail, where we're developing an NGS-based blood test to detect cancer early, when it can still be cured. We're using Vanadium for the infrastructure we need to support our internal development and analysis pipelines. Since I left Google Vanadium was split into a 'core' component (security, rpc, naming) and syncbase separately. The core component is very stable, syncbase is likely stable but not quite complete. We're currently using only Vanadium core.
I left Google in May of this year and joined Grail, where we're developing an NGS-based blood test to detect cancer early, when it can still be cured. We're using Vanadium for the infrastructure we need to support our internal development and analysis pipelines. Since I left Google Vanadium was split into a 'core' component (security, rpc, naming) and syncbase separately. The core component is very stable, syncbase is likely stable but not quite complete. We're currently using only Vanadium core.
To answer some point questions: - yes, this is the project Jeff Nichol's is referring to - and here, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06959v2.pdf