March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
636 pages
27h 50m
English
Organizations, individuals, systems, and devices interact with the blockchain via a set of business network APIs. We'll see in a moment how these APIs are created, but for now it's enough to know that a blockchain network is consumed like a regular IT system. The difference is internal—these APIs are implemented on a blockchain infrastructure, and this ultimately provides a simpler and richer set of APIs than would otherwise be practically possible. However, consumers of blockchain APIs don't need to worry about this—they just issue APIs, and the services they require just happen. The trade-off that's occurring is that the blockchain infrastructure requires more coordination between the organizations ...
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