Hands-On Smart Contract Development With Hyperledger Fabric V2 : Building Enterprise Blockchain Applications

Blockchain technology continues to disrupt a wide variety of organizations, from small businesses to the Fortune 500. Today hundreds of blockchain networks are in production, including many built with Hyperledger Fabric. This practical guide shows developers how the latest version of this blockchain infrastructure provides an ideal foundation for developing enterprise blockchain applications or solutions.

Authors Matt Zand, Xun Wu, and Mark Anthony Morris demonstrate how the versatile design of Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 satisfies a broad range of industry use cases. Developers with or without previous Hyperledger experience will discover why no other distributed ledger technology framework enjoys such wide adoption by cloud service providers such as Amazon, Alibaba, IBM, Google, and Oracle.

• Walk through the architecture and components of Hyperledger Fabric 2.0
• Migrate your current Hyperledger Fabric projects to version 2.0
• Develop blockchain applications on the Hyperledger platform with Node.js
• Deploy and integrate Hyperledger on Amazon Managed Blockchain, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud
• Develop blockchain applications with Hyperledger Aries, Avalon, Besu, and Grid
• Build end-to-end blockchain supply chain applications with Hyperledger

Matt is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of several successful tech startups such as DC Web Makers, Coding Bootcamps and High School Technology Services. He has written more than 100 technical articles and tutorials on blockchain development for Hyperledger, Ethereum and Corda R3 platforms. At DC Web Makers, he leads a team of blockchain experts for consulting and deploying enterprise decentralized applications. As a chief architect, he has designed and developed blockchain courses and training programs for Coding Bootcamps. He has a master's degree in business management from the University of Maryland. Prior to blockchain development and consulting, he worked as senior web and mobile App developer and consultant, angel investor, business advisor for a few startup companies.

Brian is a senior blockchain architect and consultant. He is a prolific writer on the subject of blockchain. As one of the prominent voices in the blockchain community, he has written 7 books on blockchain covering popular blockchain technologies like Hyperledger and Ethereum from beginner to advance levels. He has 18+ years of extensive hands-on experience with blockchain-based enterprise application design and development, big data, cloud computing, UI, and system infrastructure solutions. He has also successfully repurposed and integrated the blockchain-based applications into gaming, supply chain, digital asset tokenization platform as well as, cryptocurrency blockchain analytics industries. In addition to his strong background in the blockchain space, he has served as the tech lead for multiple key technology initiatives at leading financial institutions including J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, and Bank of America.

Mark is an autodidact, with 30 years experience. Mark founded and hosts the following monthly meetups: Austin Blockchain Technology (est. 7/15, 2,700+ members) & Hyperledger Austin (est. 7/16, 750+ members). One of Mark’s early startups won the FDIC RTC $50M contract for Document Imaging and Workflow Automation; Mark designed and led development of a healthcare application that was nominated by the State of Texas for Best Government to Business Application Architecture & Design into the States CIO Awards competition--it manages 5,700 long term care facilities; Mark was an Independent "hired gun" for IBM, Sun Microsystems, Big 6, Fortune 500, Federal and State Government clients for over 20+ years, and is an expert in Blockchain, AI, AR, IIoT, ecommerce, security, systems integration, microservices, cryptocurrency, enterprise software systems engineering, and re-engineering to Cloud (Azure & AWS), Internet and Intranet SOA technology, and Federated Partner integration and single-sign-on. Mark's a world thought leader and true visionary-- A sample of Mark's past clients: LCRA, Epicor, IBM, Sun Microsystems, American Achievement Corp, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Gap Inc., Sprint, FDIC, Texas Department of Human Services, Blue Cross Blue Shield Assoc., CSX Intermodal, American Airlines, Federated Systems Group, Cap Gemini Inc., EDS Federal, COMCAST, Zions National Bank, Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., Federal Reserve Information Technology, Transarc (IBM)