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Blockchain across Oracle

By : Robert van Molken
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Blockchain across Oracle

By: Robert van Molken

Overview of this book

Blockchain across Oracle gives you the professional orientation to Blockchain that you need as an Oracle developer in today’s changing world. Written and prepared for you by Oracle Developer Champion Robert van Mölken, this book gets you up to speed with the details of the Blockchain - core concepts, how to implement Oracle’s Blockchain Cloud Service, industry implications for the Blockchain, and how the Blockchain will affect your Oracle customers. Robert van Mölken introduces you to the history and concepts of the Blockchain. You’ll really get to understand the Blockchain inside and out, as an Oracle developer or solution architect. You’ll understand the Blockchain flow, and how the hashes and chains create a new decentralised paradigm for you as an Oracle developer. You’ll gain insights into how the Blockchain affects Oracle developers and customers in this modern and disruptive era. You’ll see how the Blockchain concepts work in this new world where Assets, Transactions, Security, and Privacy, can all be sustained across a decentralized system for your customers. Then you'll find a detailed look at the cutting-edge Oracle middleware solutions. You’ll learn about Hyperledger Fabric, the opensource Blockchain framework used by Oracle as its core, and how to set up your own Oracle Blockchain Network. You’ll design and develop a smart contract, and learn how to run it on the Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service. The final part of the book looks at how the Blockchain will affect your customers across various industry sectors. By studying industry trends in the financial services sector, healthcare industry, and the transport industry, you’ll discover how the options and possibilities for you and your clients are being transformed by the Blockchain across Oracle. You’ll complete this professional orientation by looking at Blockchain trends and future directions.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
3
Blockchain 101 - Assets, Transactions, and Hashes
4
Blockchain 101 - Blocks, Chains, and Consensus
Index

What is Oracle's strategy?


Oracle is always looking into leveraging (disruptive) emerging technologies. They are currently investing in cloud and mobile integration, artificial intelligence (data analytics, conversational AI/chatbots, machine learning), and the Internet of Things (IoT). In the summer of 2017, Oracle cemented their interest in Blockchain, but as you will learn in a moment, they actually started investing in it at the beginning of 2016.

On May 31, 2016, a U.S. patent application under the registration number US 15/169,622 was filed by Maurice P. Herlihy and Mark S. Moir of Oracle Labs with the title Accountability and Trust in Distributed Ledger Systems. This was published on August 17, 2017 under number US20170236120 A1. The patent can be found at https://www.google.com/patents/US20170236120. The patent describes a distributed ledger system for enhanced accountability and trust. It is based on the ideas behind the open source consensus protocol Tendermint (https://tendermint...