Technical introduction to Hyperledger's Fabric

Sergey Balashevich Sr. Software Engineer @

Altoros

Technical Introduction to Fabric

an IBM’s contribution to

May 5, 2016 Boston, MA

What is the Blockchain?

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Blockchain

Bitcoin Hyperledger

IBM Fabric

Ethereum

C++, Go, Java, Python, Ruby,

Javascript, Haskell bkirwi & jamshidh,

Node, .NET

Proof of work

Not one but many…. A world of many networks

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Security26

What is scope of core Hyperledger vs non-core?

@altoros

@renatco

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Step4: Deploy application13

VP 1VM

VP 3VM

APP

VP 2VM

CLI

Chaincode

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Application is distributed across all peers15

VP 1VM

APP

VP 3VM

APP

VP 2VM

APP

CLI

App source

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Transaction flow19

CLI

PEER

CHAINCODE LEDGER

OTHER PEER

CHAINCODE_NEW

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Transaction flow20

CLI

PEER

CHAINCODE LEDGER

OTHER PEERStart transaction

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Transaction flow21

CLI

PEER

CHAINCODE LEDGER

OTHER PEERSet empty state

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Transaction flow22

CLI

PEER

CHAINCODE LEDGER

OTHER PEERExecute chaincode

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Transaction flow23

CLI

PEER

CHAINCODE LEDGER

OTHER PEERApply state changes

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Transaction flow24

CLI

PEER

CHAINCODE LEDGER

OTHER PEERCommit transaction

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Transaction flow25

CLI

PEER

CHAINCODE LEDGER

OTHER PEER

Broadcast transaction

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Consensus: System properties27

The algorithm provides both safety and liveness assumingno more than 1/3 replicas are faulty.

22Consensus: Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance

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Hyperledger RoadmapEnterprise Integration Performance and ScalabilityAdditional Consensus PluginsAdditional LanguagesPortability

Thank you!For more:

www.altoros.com/blog/tag/hyperledger