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Published inSep 2019
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Vivek Acharya
Vivek Acharya
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Vivek Acharya

Vivek Acharya is an IT professional and has been in the world of design, consulting, and architecture for approximately 12 years. He is a certified expert on blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric, Software as a service (SaaS), and analytics. He loves all things associated with the cloud, permissioned decentralized autonomous organization (pDAO), blockchain, predictive analytics, and social business process management (BPM).
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Anand Eswararao Yerrapati
Anand Eswararao Yerrapati
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Anand Eswararao Yerrapati

Anand Eswararao Yerrapati is an IT professional with about 12 years of experience in design, development, and the delivery of solutions for the various use cases of many customers. He works on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) primarily with mobile, chatbots, blockchain cloud service offerings, and their integrations. He loves to develop end-to-end solutions with the integration of multiple products and shares knowledge through blogs and sessions.
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Nimesh Prakash

Nimesh Prakash is an IT solutions consultant with 13 years of experience. He has been part of multiple facets of enterprise IT solutions including development, design, solution consulting, and architecture. He works and evangelizes on PaaS cloud computing, involving blockchain, chatbots, cloud-native, and container technologies. He has been a regular at public technology events and likes to speak and to demonstrate his areas of interest.
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Challenges of traditional technologies and solutions

The evolution of a human being to being able to understand exchanging value has its roots in the level of uncertainty. The greater the uncertainty, the less the trust in the exchange of value. The higher the certainty, the greater the exchange of value. There are various traditional challenges that blockchain tries to solve, such as trust, intermediaries, confidentiality, robustness, resilience, and availability. Let's go over them now:

  • Trustless: When you deal with a centralized system, you place trust on the system and the underlying set of people and machines that are responsible for taking care of the system and its security. Your inherent trust is in the organization you are dealing with. For example, we are using an email service for many years and sometimes send important personal emails as well. We have inherent...
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Published in: Sep 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789804164

Authors (3)

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Vivek Acharya

Vivek Acharya is an IT professional and has been in the world of design, consulting, and architecture for approximately 12 years. He is a certified expert on blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric, Software as a service (SaaS), and analytics. He loves all things associated with the cloud, permissioned decentralized autonomous organization (pDAO), blockchain, predictive analytics, and social business process management (BPM).
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Anand Eswararao Yerrapati

Anand Eswararao Yerrapati is an IT professional with about 12 years of experience in design, development, and the delivery of solutions for the various use cases of many customers. He works on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) primarily with mobile, chatbots, blockchain cloud service offerings, and their integrations. He loves to develop end-to-end solutions with the integration of multiple products and shares knowledge through blogs and sessions.
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Nimesh Prakash

Nimesh Prakash is an IT solutions consultant with 13 years of experience. He has been part of multiple facets of enterprise IT solutions including development, design, solution consulting, and architecture. He works and evangelizes on PaaS cloud computing, involving blockchain, chatbots, cloud-native, and container technologies. He has been a regular at public technology events and likes to speak and to demonstrate his areas of interest.
Read more about Nimesh Prakash