Blockchain has been an essential part of day to day business. In this slide we will tackle different technologies such as the Cloud and DevOps in order to make a seamless developer experience.

1. Blockchain and Friends
Michael John Peña

2. Agenda
Some 101s
01
DApps Tooling and
Concepts
02
Demo03

3. MINI ME
About Me
Senior Consultant, Blockchain SME @
READIFY
Microsoft MVP
‘Blockchaining’ since ’15
NOT THE ANTMAN ACTOR
@mjtpena

4. Why Blockchain?

5. Image captured from: https://www.upwork.com/blog/2018/05/fastest-growing-skills-upwork-q1-2018/

6. A Block is a series of facts with
Append only operations
A Chain is formed through
Consensus Algorithm
Mining is the act of looking for
blocks for the facts
Blockchain 101Block 77
Fact A
Fact H
Fact G
Block 78
Fact Z
Fact I
Fact F
Block 78
Fact Z
Fact I
Fact F
Unmined Facts
Fact AA
Fact BB
Fact CC
Fact DD

7. DApps (Decentralised Applications)
A Blockchain app can be both Decentralized and Distributed
Source: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~artigas/classproj/osproj.pdf

8. DApp Architecture
A Blockchain app can be both Decentralized and Distributed
Source: https://medium.com/@mvmurthy/ethereum-for-web-developers-890be23d1d0c

9. Smart Contracts and Solidity
A contract-oriented programming language.
Cuts the middlemen (becomes
the middleman)
Defines the logic for Token
distribution
Inspired by C++, Python, and
JavaScript

10. Dev Tools – Truffle Suite
Truffle Ganache Drizzle
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11. Dev Tools
VS Code Metamask Etherscan
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12. Environments
MainNet and TestNets (Ropsten, Kovan and Rinkeby)
IAAS Templates: Azure, AWS, Google and IBM
Advanced Scaffold: Azure Blockchain Workbench

13. Consortium amongst parties
Requires efficiency in processes
Auditing is essential to the
business
The good use
cases

14. If you treat it like a Centralised
Database
No partnership / Inter-business
transactions
Infrastructure cost is not
justifiable
When it doesn’t make
sense

15. Thank you.
Contact me
@mjtpena
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