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Anthony O'Dowd

Petr Novotny

Luc Desrosiers

Venkatraman Ramakrishna

Salman A. Baset

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Hyperledger Fabric component design

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

The following diagram depicts the Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure components:

Figure 2.4: Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure components

Let's consider three key components before moving into the design discussion: the membership service, dedicated order nodes, and peers.

The membership service provides identity management to network participants:

Hyperledger Fabric CA is a certificate authority-based implementation of membership services, but you are not required to use it (that is, any X509-based PKI...

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Authors (6)

Nitin Gaur

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

Anthony O'Dowd is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, focusing on Blockchain. He led IBM's contribution to the design and development of the new smart contract and application SDKs found in Hyperledger Fabric v2. Anthony has also made significant contributions to Hyperledger Fabric documentation and samples.
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Petr Novotny

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.
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Luc Desrosiers

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

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

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