Life in a Blockchain Network
Your Fabric network should now be set up and running your application suite connecting different entities, managing a cross-organization trade through a set of smart contracts, and serving users through web interfaces. In addition, you should have instituted DevOps processes to help your developers and system administrators maintain code, push updates, and manage network configuration. You should also have mechanisms in place for testing and maintenance, and safeguards to minimize service interruptions.
Yet, the initial configuration and deployment do not represent a permanent state for your application. Change is a fact of life, as follows:
- Needs and expectations evolve, and this is especially true for a business network and workflow involving multiple collaborating entities, each of whom will have differing requirements at different points in time.
- In addition, it is expected that platform software itself will continually change...
