An often overlooked aspect of any application is the need for helpful tools to manage the lifecycle of that application. Tools, such as software to ease deployment, debugging, and design, can make a tremendous difference in the ease of use of a system, for developers and users alike. Most public blockchains are severely hampered by the lack of high-quality tools and support. The Hyperledger ecosystem, however, continues to invest in building excellent support tools.
One of the common needs of any system is benchmarking. Hyperledger Caliper is a blockchain-oriented benchmarking tool, designed to help blockchain architects ensure that the system can perform fast enough to meet the needs of the hosting organizations. Using a set of pre-defined, common use cases, Hyperledger Caliper will report an assortment of critical performance measurements, such as resource usage, Transactions Per Second (TPS), transaction latency, and so on.
Using Caliper, a team working...