Joseph Thachil George - Introducing Blockchain Applications: Understand and Develop Blockchain Applications Through Distributed Systems

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First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my mentor and adviser, Professor Nuno Santos (Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior TcnicoISTUniversity of Lisbon, Portugal) for his continued support and for providing research ideas and thoughts. His guidance has helped me throughout my research and writing of various technical books. Working with him has been a great experience, both professionally and personally. Furthermore, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Professor Tommaso Pecorella (Department Ingegneria dell Informazione, UniFi, University of Florence, Italy) for his constant support as technical adviser.

Finally, I would really like to thank my father, Thachil Joseph George, my mother, Reena George, my wife, Meghna, and my brother-in-law, Sherline Poulose. All the people whom I love gave direct or indirect support so I could finish writing this book.

The primary objective of this book is to provide an in-depth understanding of blockchain technology and to demonstrate how to use it in a distributed setting or environment. The Blockchain technology employs several aspects of distributed networks and the distributed system is also connected to the majority of blockchain-based applications. As a result, you need a thorough understanding of emerging technologies in the distributed systems.

When you think of distributed systems, you must keep in mind that they are systems for which processing is distributed. This does not necessarily have to be physically distributed, but the processing components must be distributed and not united in a single block. This means that hardware and software architectures maintain the distributed system. Everything must be interconnected: the CPU through the network and the processes through the communication system. Distributed systems have infinite use cases, including electronic banking systems, massively multiplayer online games, and sensor networks.