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Hyperledger Fabric: Not a Blockchain

• brian_herman 8y ago
  Yes it is uses blockchain technology! http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.2/blockchain.html http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.2/bloc...
  • drcode 8y ago
    Rolls Royce uses "car technology" to build airplane engines, but that doesn't make an airplane a car.
  • andromeduck 8y ago
    So it's a just immutable, distributed linked list of signed nodes with a consensus protocol like two stage commit, paxos, isis and maybe overlay network and peer forwarding to bridge some gaps? Sounds traditional distributed systems but now with signatures involved.
    • convolvatron 8y ago
      i can't find a reference to isis, google is pretty swamped with the term. are you referring to the work by Ken Birman?
      • andromeduck 8y ago
        Yes, Birman and Joseph.
• smt88 8y ago
  I see it as a way for technologists to satisfy non-tech people that "yes, we use blockchain now" when in reality this is just an immutable BFTDL with configurable consensus (perhaps similar to what aircraft have been using for many years). Full, PoW/PoS blockchain like Bitcoin or Ethereum is hard to justify in an enterprise. Decentralization is rarely part of a viable business model.
  • codebeaker 8y ago
    BFTDL?
    • deleted 8y ago
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    • alpyne 8y ago
      Byzantine Fault Tolerant Distributed Ledger
  • davidgerard 8y ago
    My advice is to say "yes, all our developers use blockchain-related technologies" and never let on that just means you use git.