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The interoperability challenge will make or break enterprise blockchain platforms Blockchain technology for the enterprise world is coming of age, but businesses are at risk of burdening themselves with platforms that are ultimately destined for the same technology scrapheap as Betamax video players, pagers and PDAs. Blockchain holds the potential for a better-connected future for ...

High Availability for R3 Corda Nodes As we get closer to the general availability of R3 Corda we would like to highlight some of the unique capabilities our distribution brings for demanding enterprise workloads. R3 identified a set of requirements that are unique to demanding mission critical deployments. While Corda moves at pace as an open ...

What problem are we trying to solve with Corda? Todd pointed me at a great piece about “crypto finance” versus “regular finance” by Bloomberg’s Matt Levine earlier. I thought he did a good job of nailing the essential contradiction that arises if one tries naively to apply Bitcoin or Ethereum principles directly to traditional finance. He ...

Transactions Per Second (TPS) The Corda team are involved in a number of projects globally that are looking at how they can ultimately scale their solution to perform at a level demanded by real world use cases. A key criterion in scaling up any blockchain platform is the number of transactions the system can manage. This ...

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Speculation based side channel attacks Thoughts on Meltdown and Spectre I wanted to write down some thoughts on the CPU problems that are in the news. The first section has some analysis on how all this impacts computing and the cloud in general. The second section is Corda-specific. Because things are moving fast I’ll try to keep ...

Speculation based side channel attacks I wanted to write down some thoughts on the CPU problems that are in the news. The first section has some analysis on how all this impacts computing and the cloud in general. The second section is Corda-specific. Because things are moving fast I’ll try to keep this post high level. ...

Observer Nodes Although Corda’s API was stabilised with the release of Corda V1.0, we continue to add new APIs based on the requirements of our users (as expressed in our Slack channel and elsewhere). In Corda V2.0, we added the Observable State feature, which gives nodes flexibility in deciding whether to track a state. The ...

DLT Performance Considerations Here we are, the broader “Blockchain” community, a few years into our pursuit of private, permissioned Blockchain or more what we prefer to call Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for financial and general business-to-business (b2b) usage. There have been, and continue to be proofs-of-concept enabling enterprises to explore applicability of DLT to their ...

Testing CorDapps My first introduction to testing was the book Test-Driven Development with Python and its Testing Goat. At the time, testing sounded like a lot of pain for very little gain. For years, I was a testing adherent in name only. I professed to love testing solely because I saw it as a signifier ...