Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

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Blockchain - Enterprise and Industry Perspective

Defining the terms – what is a blockchain?

Four core building blocks of blockchain framworks

Additional capabilities to consider

Fundamentals of the secure transaction processing protocol

Where blockchain technology has been and where it's going

The great divide

An economic model for blockchain delivery

Learning as we go

The promise of trust and accountability

Industries putting blockchain technology to work

Blockchain in the enterprise

What applications are a good fit?

How does the enterprise view blockchain?

Litmus testing to justify the application of blockchain technology

Integrating a blockchain infrastructure for the whole enterprise

Enterprise design principles

Business drivers and evolution

Ensuring sustainability

The principles that drive blockchain adoption

Business considerations for choosing a blockchain framework

Technology considerations for choosing a blockchain framework

Identity management

Scalability

Enterprise security

Development tooling

Crypto-economic models

Decentralization with systemic governance

Enterprise support

Use case-driven pluggability choices

Shared ledger technology

Consensus

Crypto algorithms and encryption technology

Use case-driven pluggable choices

Enterprise integration and designing for extensibility

Other considerations

Consensus ACID property and CAP

CAP

ACID

Attestation – SSCs are signed and encrypted

Use of HSMs

Summary

Exploring Hyperledger Fabric

Hyperledger frameworks tools and building blocks

Hyperledger frameworks

Hyperledger tools

The building blocks of blockchain solutions

Hyperledger Fabric component design

Principles of Hyperledger design

CAP Theorem

Hyperledger Fabric reference architecture

Hyperledger Fabric runtime architecture

Strengths and advantages of a componentized design

Hyperledger Fabric – the journey of a sample transaction

Hyperledger Fabric explored

Components in a blockchain network

Developer interaction

Understanding governance in business networks powered by blockchain

Governance structure and landscape

Information technology governance

Blockchain network governance

Business network governance

Summary

Setting the Stage with a Business Scenario

Trading and letter of credit

The importance of trust in facilitating trade

The letter of credit process today

Business scenario and use case

Overview

Real-world processes

Simplified and modified processes

Terms used in trade finance and logistics

Shared process workflow

Shared assets and data

Participants' roles and capabilities

Benefits of blockchain applications over current real-world processes

Setting up the development environment

Designing a network

Installing prerequisites

Forking and cloning the trade-finance-logistics repository

Creating and running a network configuration

Preparing the network