Getting Started with Enterprise Blockchain

Preface

This book introduces you to the value that blockchain brings to the enterprise. We focus on private permissioned blockchains, which we describe in Chapter 1, and why they are suitable for use in an enterprise environment. While we make comparisons to public unpermissioned networks in Chapter 1, we don’t discuss public networks beyond this. This book looks at how to choose the best scenario for blockchain, and at considerations for designing a blockchain network, before finally looking at how to develop your blockchain application.

Throughout this book we focus on a real-world scenario for commercial papers with Chapter 5 introducing a developer tutorial and how to run and extend a commercial paper network on blockchain.

Who Is This Book For?

While this book is focused on those people designing and developing blockchain networks, the early chapters have a broader scope. There’s no prerequisite reading required, although if you would like to extend the commercial paper scenario in Chapter 5, then knowledge of Node.js would be advantageous.

How Is This Book Organized?

This book contains six chapters, each chapter building on the previous.

• Chapter 1 introduces blockchain for the enterprise, and describes the main concepts of a private permissioned blockchain.

• Chapter 2 looks at how to identify when to use blockchain, and includes a set of detailed steps on how best to choose a good blockchain scenario.

• Chapter 3 considers many of the options you will face when designing ...