I have done significant development work using hyperledger platform and aside from the fact that private blockchains are essentially pointless, this is (or at least recently was) pretty unusable, with very bad tooling and support.
If you prefer to have a immutable database that is anchored to a blockchain, rather then a permissioned blockchain, I suggest looking at the Politeia toolkit. Time stamping the sum content of any data repository makes it censorship resistant.<p><a href="https://blog.decred.org/2017/10/25/Politeia/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.decred.org/2017/10/25/Politeia/</a>
<a href="https://github.com/decred/politeia" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/decred/politeia</a>
There is no point of having a private blockchain or distributed ledger. Full stop.<p>Nothing there was no possible before Bitcoin and what they are trying to achieve is some kind of API 2.0 where different companies can integrate within the same technology. This problem is political rather than technical and the blockchain is not a solution by itself.
The text read like total mumbo jumbo. I have heard about hyperledger multiple times, but I still don't get what's the value prop. Maybe it is just a trap for banks so they waste their time and resources on that, while the real blockchain stuff moves forward elsewhere?
Latest version <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10228v2" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10228v2</a><p>For me the takeaway message is: "Fabric is the first blockchain system to support the execution of distributed applications written in standard programming languages"
Now you have to deal with all the issues of the traditional IT world (devops, cloudflare, vpns, containerization, cloud hosting configuration, load balancers, dns configuration, etc) AND all the issues of the new blockchain world (contract security, gas fee metering, block limits, replay attacks, etc)<p>...the saving grace of a "real" blockchain architecture is that at least most of the traditional IT issues go away.