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Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger: Building decentralized applications with Hyperledger Fabric and Composer

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Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

Exploring Hyperledger Fabric

The focus of this chapter is the Hyperledger Fabric project—its components, design, reference architecture, and overall enterprise readiness. We will also discuss the broader aim of Linux Foundation (LF) hosted Hyperledger projects and the importance of open source and open standards. The goal is to build an understanding of the diversity of various Hyperledger projects, and what frameworks and tools may be suitable for particular enterprise use cases and software consumption models. While the blockchain technology landscape is constantly in flux, Hyperledger projects represent a structure that supports a mature and peer-reviewed technology geared toward enterprise consumption and fueled by a diverse set of talent and community interests.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • The foundation of Hyperledger
  • Hyperledger frameworks, tools...

Building on the foundations of open computing

Open source projects, such as Linux and Java, have gained strength in mainstream businesses by serving as low-cost alternatives to commercial software. These capabilities rival those of proprietary software, thanks to support from a large developer community. Popular open source projects can also accelerate open standards, the collective building blocks for products, by serving as the common implementation. Businesses and vendors using open standards free up development and services budgets for items that offer higher value and competitive advantage.

Open source is a part of the wider open computing movement, along with open standards and open architecture. Together, these initiatives enable integration and flexibility, and benefit customers by helping them avoid vendor lock-in.

Enterprises are often required to adhere to various...

Hyperledger frameworks, tools, and building blocks

Now that we've looked at Hyperledger's foundations in the open computing movement, as well as its benefits for industry, let's talk about the frameworks, tools, and building blocks of Hyperledger.

Hyperledger frameworks

There are five blockchain frameworks, as follows:

  • Hyperledger Iroha: Iroha, designed for mobile development projects, is based on Hyperledger Fabric and was contributed by Soramitsu, Hitachi, NTT Data, and Colu. It features modern, domain-driven C++ design as well as a new chain-based Byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithm called Sumeragi.
  • Hyperledger Sawtooth: Sawtooth was contributed by Intel and includes a novel consensus algorithm...

Hyperledger Fabric component design

Let's discuss various components that facilitate the blockchain technology tenets of shared ledger, encryption, the trusts system, and smart contracts. The components represent the Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure components and provide isolation from chain code or smart contract development constructs. Chain code or smart contract development details will be discussed in detail in a separate chapter.

The following diagram depicts the Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure components: 

Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure components
Following are the infrastructure components:
  • Hyperledger Fabric CA is an implementation of membership services but is not required to be used (that is, any X509-based PKI infrastructure that can issue EC certificates can be used)
  • Dedicated orderer nodes
    • Implements atomic broadcast API
    • Orders and batches...

Hyperledger Fabric – the journey of a sample transaction

Now, let's look at the journey of a sample transaction with Hyperledger Fabric. This section will help lay the foundation of Hyperledger Fabric concepts and components in order to facilitate a better understanding of the layers involved in transaction processing:

Hyperledger Fabric walkthrough

Fabric introduces a newly designed blockchain, preserving the transaction processing architecture and aiming at a secure, scalable, resilient, modular, and confidential design. Hyperledger Fabric (at the time of writing this book, the current version is 1.1) supports the execution of distributed applications supporting enterprise-friendly programming models. The components in Hyperledger Fabric provide a modular design, optimally suited for a business network made of various enterprises. Hyperledger Fabric introduces...

Hyperledger Fabric explored

Actors in the blockchain networkA blockchain is a network-based infrastructure where network-centric design, development, deployment, management, and support constructs apply. It is therefore vital to understand various actors and their roles that interact with the blockchain network for various purposes such as management, support, business users, regulator, and so on:

Each actor has a role and entry point and defines a governance structure that aids in network governance, audit, and compliance requirements. Business network governance (covered in detail in the following points) is an important compliance and costs consideration. Users are the parties who are users of the blockchain. They create and distribute blockchain applications and perform operations using the blockchain. These actors are consistent, and are based on cloud computing actors...

Understanding governance in business networks powered by blockchain

Governance can be defined as the centralized or decentralized body whose sole responsibility is establishing a set of rules or laws in a given system to make binding decisions. Governance in blockchain networks comes with a set of challenges and, in this section, we want to discuss those challenges along with governance structures in blockchain networks. Within the context of blockchain, the topic of governance presents an interesting paradox.

When a blockchain network is created, the governance structure is generally distributed, with input from the various stakeholders. Blockchain networks are characterized by decentralization and self-governance, with built-in control points and incentives to help maintain the right balance. Transactions go through a series of decentralized processing steps, with a decision...

Building on the foundations of open computing


Open source projects, such as Linux and Java, have gained strength in mainstream businesses by serving as low-cost alternatives to commercial software. These capabilities rival those of proprietary software, thanks to support from a large developer community. Popular open source projects can also accelerate open standards, the collective building blocks for products, by serving as the common implementation. Businesses and vendors using open standards free up development and services budgets for items that offer higher value and competitive advantage.

Open source is a part of the wider open computing movement, along with open standards and open architecture. Together, these initiatives enable integration and flexibility, and benefit customers by helping them avoid vendor lock-in.

Enterprises are often required to adhere to various industry compliance and technology governance requirements, so it's important to consider the implications of open technology...

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  • Write your own chaincode/smart contracts using Golang on hyperledger network
  • Build and deploy decentralized applications (DApps)
  • Dive into real world blockchain challenges such as integration and scalability

Description

Blockchain and Hyperledger technologies are hot topics today. Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Composer are open source projects that help organizations create private, permissioned blockchain networks. These find application in finance, banking, supply chain, and IoT among several other sectors. This book will be an easy reference to explore and build blockchain networks using Hyperledger technologies. The book starts by outlining the evolution of blockchain, including an overview of relevant blockchain technologies. You will learn how to configure Hyperledger Fabric and become familiar with its architectural components. Using these components, you will learn to build private blockchain networks, along with the applications that connect to them. Starting from principles first, you’ll learn to design and launch a network, implement smart contracts in chaincode and much more. By the end of this book, you will be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications, handling the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle.

Who is this book for?

The book benefits business leaders as it provides a comprehensive view on blockchain business models, governance structure, and business design considerations of blockchain solutions. Technology leaders stand to gain a lot from the detailed discussion around the technology landscape, technology design, and architecture considerations in the book. With model-driven application development, this guide will speed up understanding and concept development for blockchain application developers. The simple and well organized content will put novices at ease with blockchain concepts and constructs.

What you will learn

  • Discover why blockchain is a game changer in the technology landscape
  • Set up blockchain networks using basic Hyperledger Fabric deployment
  • Understand the considerations for creating decentralized applications
  • Learn to integrate business networks with existing systems
  • Write Smart Contracts quickly with Hyperledger Composer
  • Design transaction model and chaincode with Golang
  • Deploy Composer REST Gateway to access the Composer transactions
  • Maintain, monitor, and govern your blockchain solutions
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Blockchain - Enterprise and Industry Perspective Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploring Hyperledger Fabric Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting the Stage with a Business Scenario Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing a Data and Transaction Model with Golang Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exposing Network Assets and Transactions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Business Networks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Business Network Example Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Agility in a Blockchain Network Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Life in a Blockchain Network Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Governance, Necessary Evil of Regulated Industries Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The Future of Blockchain and the Challenges Ahead Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Good paper book, but obsolete. The reason paper is not best fit for rapidly evolving software
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Excellent introduction into hyperledger project and technologies
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This book provides a complete background on blockchain mechanism. It is perfect for people with some technical background who want to understand blockchain hyperledger. It also provides several actual use cases in the business. Outstanding book!!
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Well actually a very concise and well written book. As an author and speaker I was sort of suspicious since it was published under Packt publishing, yes a publisher not well known for great technical books that have been proofread by people that speak native english. Packt is generally a pump and dump publisher so yes I was leary spending $46 dollars on Amazon. The book is clearly defined, I do appreciate the real life examples and the technical merits. The material from the hours I spent reading and using is accurate… If you want a book written by Hyperledger pros this it… (At least in July 2018) Great job
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