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Published inApr 2024
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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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Starting the node server

As we learned in the first chapter, a copy of the blockchain is maintained on the nodes that participate in the network, and this is what makes blockchains decentralized since a copy of the blockchain exists on multiple nodes, each of which acts as a server. Even if one node goes down or a copy is deleted, other nodes are still there to uphold the blockchain network.

So far, we have built the blocks, mined them, added them, and connected them to the blockchain by updating the block tree. Now, it’s time to see how blockchain copies are maintained on the nodes, and before that, we will need to start a server.

In this section, we will go through some code that will help us start servers and help operate nodes for our blockchain network.

The server

In the project’s GitHub repository, readers will discover a file named server.rs, dedicated to hosting the necessary code for initializing a server.

The crates that you see in the first line...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837634644

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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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