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Published inApr 2024
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Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma
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Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma is a Software Engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Dominate, a SaaS product company, and the founder of Myrl Tech, a tech services company providing technology consulting to some of the top enterprise companies in the world such as HP, 3M, Honda, Bose, and Adobe. He has 12+ years of industry experience and a solid understanding of building digital products. He is adept at multiple programming languages such as Golang, Rust, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript. He has mentored hundreds of engineers offline and discovered that they knew the programming language and the concepts around it but were unable to use them in real-world applications. He aims to close this gap by teaching how to apply the concepts practically and build projects in real time.
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Connecting the blocks

This section will start bringing important independent concepts together to build a functional blockchain.

Let us first start by looking at some essential libraries that will be used throughout this project.

Libraries powering blockchain operations

This section will cover crucial libraries essential for the Blockchain struct’s operations. These libraries cover diverse aspects of the blockchain’s core functionalities, enhancing its efficiency and overall performance.

Data storage with Sled

The Blockchain struct heavily relies on the Sled library for robust data storage management. By utilizing a key-value store approach, Sled is fully implemented in Rust and offers ACID transactions, which ensures data consistency even in the presence of errors such as crashes, and that’s the right use case for our blockchain since data consistency is paramount. An interesting point to note is that Sled is an embedded database, meaning that it...

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Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma is a Software Engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Dominate, a SaaS product company, and the founder of Myrl Tech, a tech services company providing technology consulting to some of the top enterprise companies in the world such as HP, 3M, Honda, Bose, and Adobe. He has 12+ years of industry experience and a solid understanding of building digital products. He is adept at multiple programming languages such as Golang, Rust, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript. He has mentored hundreds of engineers offline and discovered that they knew the programming language and the concepts around it but were unable to use them in real-world applications. He aims to close this gap by teaching how to apply the concepts practically and build projects in real time.
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