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Re:Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based dat... by prepend on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:37AM (#21046442)
This looks promising. A typical blockchain discussion in my org (kind of averse to change with a few hundred database people, smart, but Microsoft stack) goes like this: Someone: “We need a private blockchain for C use case. We’re about to pay consulting firm X a gazillion dollars to implement EthiHyperBitLedget” Architect: “Silly bird, you just need a distributed database...” Someone:”Fine then how do I get one of those” Architect:”you just hire me and I’ll write a bunch of database stuff for you that is a one off spaghetti mess of sql server stuff” 75% of the time they buy that blockchain thing 25% of the time they try to spatchcock the sql thing So far we are 0 for 10 for stuff being useful.

If there were a nice distributed database with the features of blockchain I think this could merge my excited Someones with my fuddyduddy Architects.

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Re:Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based dat... by cateye on Monday September 23, 2019 @06:11AM (#21047441)
This is the most mature and out of the box solution I've come across: https://kaleido.io/

I can totally imagine how Someone would respond to it because it wouldn't automatically get him the Lambo he thinks Blockchain should bring. After a couple of hours, he would say something like: "this isn't a Real® blockchain. We need a proper one."

The Architect wouldn't be impressed by it too, because where is the fun if you can't spend 6 months creating spaghetti code?

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Re:Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based dat... by jacobush on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:12AM (#21046603)
Wouldn't you clone Stellar or IBMs stuff already if you wanted "corporate" blockchain, i.e. a group of nodes sort of not 100% trusting each other, just keeping an eye on eacher.
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Re:Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based dat... by natmaka on Monday September 23, 2019 @09:58AM (#21048976)
Isn't https://alacris.io/ pertinent?
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