June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
10h 22m
English
book
Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps
by Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, Eoin Woods
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Appendix B
Comparison of Technical Implementations of Shared Ledgers
As we saw in Chapter 8, “Software Architecture and Emerging Technologies,” shared ledgers can be implemented as public blockchains, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum; private blockchains, such as Quorum; public distributed ledgers, such as Corda Network or Alastria; and private distributed ledgers, such as Corda R3. Private blockchains and distributed ledger technologies are usually operated by a consortium of parties with similar goals, such as banks, that want to improve their trade financing processes and decrease their risks.1 Table B.1 compares the capabilities of three common implementations from an architecture perspective.
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