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Published inJun 2018
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ISBN-139781788994521
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Nitin Gaur
Nitin Gaur
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Nitin Gaur

Nitin Gaur, is the director of IBM's Blockchain Labs, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer.
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Luc Desrosiers
Luc Desrosiers
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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
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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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Petr Novotny
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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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Salman A. Baset
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Salman A. Baset

Dr. Salman A. Baset is the CTO of security in IBM Blockchain Solutions.
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Anthony O'Dowd
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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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Hyperledger Fabric component design


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

The following diagram depicts the Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure components: 

Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure components

Following are the infrastructure components:

  • Hyperledger Fabric CA is an implementation of membership services but is not required to be used (that is, any X509-based PKI infrastructure that can issue EC certificates can be used)
  • Dedicated orderer nodes
    • Implements atomic broadcast API
    • Orders and batches transactions and signs each batch (block) to create a hash chain
    • Hyperledger Fabric provides two implementations—Solo (for dev/test) and...
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Authors (6)

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Nitin Gaur

Nitin Gaur, is the director of IBM's Blockchain Labs, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer.
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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.
Read more about Venkatraman Ramakrishna

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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.
Read more about Petr Novotny

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Salman A. Baset

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

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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.
Read more about Anthony O'Dowd