Architecting Blockchain Solutions

Architecting Blockchain Solutions

by Joseph Holbrook
Released August 2018
Publisher(s): Cisco Press
ISBN: 0135244285

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Video description

6 Hours of Video Instruction

Description
Quickly gain a deep understanding of blockchain technology to drive revenue in your organization.

Overview
Architecting Blockchain Solutions LiveLessons covers blockchain basics, ledgers, and several use-case scenarios in detail. Learn the main technologies for supporting blockchain use cases and how these technologies work with other technologies. Joe Holbrook discusses use cases that cover financial, insurance, science, technology, and other industries that enable you to gain a full grasp of blockchain capabilities.
This course starts out by covering blockchain fundamentals, including how a blockchain compares to traditional infrastructure and how Ethereum is used as a blockchain platform. It then discusses the important factors of blockchain architectures for which every organization should have a concise understanding, including blockchain nodes, blockchain networking, and layers. Holbrook demonstrates options for running blockchain on the various public cloud providers, including AWS, GCP, Azure, and IBM, and details numerous blockchain business models and best practices for software lifecycles. He covers significant blockchain development and planning as well as several blockchain development challenges. The course finishes with a discussion of providing blockchain solutions based on customer requirements.
Topics include
Lesson 1: Blockchain Basics
Lesson 2: Understanding Ethereum
Lesson 3: Blockchain Platform Architectures
Lesson 4: Blockchain Business Models
Lesson 5: Defining Business Models (B2B)
Lesson 6: Defining Business Models (B2C)
Lesson 7: Defining Business Models (G2C)
Lesson 8: Blockchain Costing
Lesson 9: Blockchain Solution Development
Lesson 10: Blockchain Design Best Practices
Lesson 11: SDLC
Lesson 12: Building the Blockchain
Lesson 13: Blockchain Pre-Sales Cycle
Lesson 14: Blockchain Demand

About the Instructor
Joe Holbrook has been in the IT field since 1993, when he was exposed to several HPUX systems on board a U.S. Navy flagship. He has migrated from the UNIX world to storage area networking (SAN), enterprise virtualization, and cloud architectures, and now specializes in blockchain and cryptocurrency. He previously worked for numerous companies such as HDS, 3PAR, Brocade, HP, EMC, Northrup Grumman, ViON, Ibasis.net, Chematch.com, SAIC, and Siemens Nixdorf.
Currently he works as a subject matter expert specializing in enterprise cloud and blockchain technologies. He is the owner of myblockchainexperts.com e-learning and is a technical trainer, consulting engineer, and speaker. Joe is a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP), Certified Blockchain Expert (CBE), and Certified Blockchain Solutions Architect (CBSA).
He is an avid speaker and well-known course author residing in Jacksonville, Florida.

Skill Level
Intermediate/Advanced

Learn How To

  • Understand blockchain solutions for enterprise use cases
  • Discuss and sell enterprise blockchain technology technically (technical pre-sales)
  • Determine appropriate enterprise blockchain solutions for technical merits
  • Define testing and implementation strategies for enterprise blockchain solutions

Who Should Take This Course

  • Anyone with a basic knowledge of blockchain who wants more in-depth knowledge of enterprise blockchain architectures. The ideal student would be an IT vendor/VAR/cloud pre-sales engineer, sales executive, or technical account manager responsible for enterprise customer solutions.
  • Engineers, technical support managers, developers, salespeople, and architects.

Course Requirements

  • Experience with service architectures such as SOA.
  • Pre-sales experience would be helpful but not required.
  • Understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency basics.
  • A basic understanding of the benefits of blockchains.
  • A basic knowledge of Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Litecoin is not needed but is helpful.

 
Table of Contents
Module 1: Fundamentals of Blockchain Architecture
Lesson 1: Blockchain Basics
Lesson 2: Understanding Ethereum
Lesson 3: Blockchain Platform Architectures
Module 2: Blockchain Business Models
Lesson 4: Blockchain Business Models
Lesson 5: Defining Business Models (B2B)
Lesson 6: Defining Business Models (B2C)
Lesson 7: Defining Business Models (G2C)
Lesson 8: Blockchain Costing
Module 3: Blockchain Development
Lesson 9: Blockchain Solution Development
Lesson 10: Blockchain Design Best Practices
Lesson 11: SDLC
Lesson 12: Building the Blockchain
Module 4: Blockchain Solution Sales Cycle
Lesson 13: Blockchain Pre-Sales Cycle
Lesson 14: Blockchain Demand

Lesson Descriptions
Lesson 1, “Blockchain Basics,” discusses the basics of blockchain technology to lay a foundation before we discuss the more technical and specialized areas.

Lesson 2, “Understanding Ethereum,” discusses the technical merits of the Ethereum blockchain and how the platform works from a technical level.

Lesson 3, “Blockchain Platform Architectures,” discusses the details of other blockchain platforms, and specifically running Blockchain as a Service (BaaS).

Lesson 4, “Blockchain Business Models,” discusses the business models that are commonly used in blockchain deployments and that are creating value with blockchains.

Lesson 5, “Defining Business Models (B2B),” discusses the business model focused on business-to-business contracting.

Lesson 6, “Defining Business Models (B2C),” discusses the business model focused on business-to-consumer servicing.

Lesson 7, “Defining Business Models (G2C),” discusses the business model focused on government-to-citizen servicing, with a focus on Dubai.

Lesson 8, “Blockchain Costing,” discusses the business costing models around the blockchain technologies.

Lesson 9, “Blockchain Solution Development,” discusses the solutions development process, specifically around blockchain best practices and frameworks.

Lesson 10, “Blockchain Design Best Practices,” discusses how to design blockchain solutions and the needed skillsets for development.

Lesson 11, “SDLC,” discusses the software development lifecyle process and how the development models fit in.

Lesson 12, “Building the Blockchain,” discusses the processes of building your blockchain and some of the common tools available.

Lesson 13, “Blockchain Pre-Sales Cycle,” discusses the pre-sales cycle regarding blockchain-focused sales cycle activities such as POCs and responding to RFPs.

Lesson 14, “Blockchain Demand,” discusses the rising demand for required blockchain skills and discusses some career paths.

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Architecting Blockchain Solutions: Introduction
  2. Module 1: Fundamentals of Blockchain Architecture
    1. Module introduction
  3. Lesson 1: Blockchain Basics
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 1.1 Legacy Systems Architecture vs Blockchain Architectures
    3. 1.2 Blockchain Overview
    4. 1.3 Blockchain Components
    5. 1.4 Enterprise Blockchains
    6. 1.5 Open Source Blockchains
    7. 1.6 Blockchain Mining
    8. 1.7 Bitcoin vs Blockchain
    9. 1.8 Key Terminology
  4. Lesson 2: Understanding Ethereum
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 2.1 Ethereum Blockchain Platform
    3. 2.2 Ethereum Blockchain Networks
    4. 2.3 Ethereum IPFS
    5. 2.4 Ethereum Ledger Basics
    6. 2.5 Ethereum Architecture
    7. 2.6 Ethereum Wallets
    8. 2.7 Ethereum Virtual Machine
    9. 2.8 Ethereum Development
    10. 2.9 Ethereum Browser
    11. 2.10 Ethereum Smart Contracts
    12. 2.11 Ethereum dApps
    13. 2.12 Ethereum Tokens
    14. 2.13 Ethereum Gas
  5. Lesson 3: Blockchain Platform Architectures
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 3.1 Blockchain Architecture Overview
    3. 3.2 Blockchain Enterprise Architecture
    4. 3.3 Blockchain Architecture Domains
    5. 3.4 Blockchain Networks
    6. 3.5 Forks and Segwits
    7. 3.6 Blockchain as a Service (Cloud)
    8. 3.7 R3 Corda
    9. 3.8 R3 Corda--Part 2
  6. Module 2: Blockchain Business Models
    1. Module introduction
  7. Lesson 4: Blockchain Business Models
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 4.1 Understanding the business models
    3. 4.2 Creating Value with Blockchain
  8. Lesson 5: Defining Business Models (B2B)
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 5.1 Defining B2B Business Model
    3. 5.2 Deriving Business Value in Contract Processing
    4. 5.3 Ripple
  9. Lesson 6: Definining Business Models (B2C)
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 6.1 Defining B2C Business Model
    3. 6.2 Defining B2C Business Challenges and Solutions
  10. Lesson 7: Defining Business Models (G2C)
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 7.1 Defining G2C Business Model
    3. 7.2 Challenges and opportunities with the G2C Business Model
    4. 7.3 Government of Dubai
  11. Lesson 8: Blockchain Costing
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 8.1 Blockchain Cost Model
    3. 8.2 Cost Considerations
  12. Module 3: Blockchain Development
    1. Module introduction
  13. Lesson 9: Blockchain Solution Development
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 9.1 Project Planning Best Practices
    3. 9.2 Development Team Best Practices
    4. 9.3 Development Frameworks
  14. Lesson 10: Blockchain Design Best Practices
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 10.1 Design Decisions
    3. 10.2 Development Skills
  15. Lesson 11: SDLC
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 11.1 SDLC and the Blockchain
    3. 11.2 Defining Development Models
  16. Lesson 12: Building the Blockchain
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 12.1 Steps to Building Your Blockchain
    3. 12.2 Blockchain Development Tools
  17. Module 4: Blockchain Solution Sales Cycle
    1. Module introduction
  18. Lesson 13: Blockchain Pre-Sales Cycle
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 13.1 Customer Requirements
    3. 13.2 Understanding Use-Cases
    4. 13.3 Request for Proposals
    5. 13.4 RFP for Fin Tech
    6. 13.5 Proof of Concepts (POC)
    7. 13.6 ROI and TCO
  19. Lesson 14: Blockchain Demand
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 14.1 Demand in the Blockchain
    3. 14.2 Blockchain Roles
  20. Summary
    1. Architecting Blockchain Solutions: Summary

Product information

  • Title: Architecting Blockchain Solutions
  • Author(s): Joseph Holbrook
  • Release date: August 2018
  • Publisher(s): Cisco Press
  • ISBN: 0135244285