Baset - Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

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Salman A. Baset is the CTO of security in IBM Blockchain Solutions.

Luc Desrosiers is an IBM-certified IT architect with 20+ years of experience.

Nitin Gaur is the director of IBM's Blockchain Labs, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer.

Petr Novotny is a research scientist at IBM Research, with an MSc from University College London and PhD from Imperial College London, where he was also a post-doctoral research associate.

Anthony O'Dowd works in IBM's Blockchain team and is based in Europe.

Venkatraman Ramakrishna is an IBM researcher with a BTech from IIT Kharagpur and PhD from UCLA.

Weimin Sun is an expert in designing data-driven solutions.

Xun (Brian) Wu is an author, founder, and board advisor for several blockchain start-ups.

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This Learning Path is your easy reference for exploring and building blockchain networks using Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Hyperledger Composer. It begins with an overview of blockchain and shows you how to set up an Ethereum development environment for developing, packaging, building, and testing campaign-decentralized applications. You'll learn Solidity the de facto language for developing decentralized applications in Ethereum. You'll configure the Hyperledger Fabric and use these components to build private blockchain networks and applications that connect to them. Starting with the principles first, you'll learn to design and launch a network, implement smart contracts in chaincode, and much more.

By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications by handling the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle.

This Learning Path is designed for blockchain developers who want to build decentralized applications and smart contracts from scratch using Hyperledger. A basic familiarity or exposure to any programming language will be useful to get started with this course.

, Blockchain - Enterprise and Industry Perspective , you've heard about blockchain and you are wondering, what is all the fuss about? In this chapter, we explore why blockchain is a game changer, what innovation it brings, and what the technology landscape is.

, Exploring Hyperledger Fabric , starts with an understanding of the blockchain landscape, then we turn our attention to Hyperledger Fabric. The aim of this chapter is to walk you through the deployment of each component of Hyperledger Fabric while unveiling/building the architecture.

, Setting the Stage with a Business Scenario , describes a business use case and then focuses on understanding the process of creating a good business network, using blockchain from requirements to design.

, Designing a Data and Transaction Model with Golang , aims to define what makes up a smart contract in Hyperledger Fabric. It will also introduce you to some terms regarding smart contracts and get you to experience the development of a chaincode using the Go language.

, Exposing Network Assets and Transactions, leveraging the smart contract written in the previous chapter, this chapter looks at the required integration of application to the network. It takes the readers through the process of configuring a channel, and installing and invoking chaincode, from a client application and considers the various integration patterns that might be used.

, Business Networks, has an objective to introduce and uncover the skills and tools needed to model a business network. Working at a higher level of abstraction, the foundation, tools, and framework will provide the reader with a way to quickly model, design, and deploy a complete end-to-end business network.