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Monitoring Corda Nodes (Part 1) With the launch of Corda 3.0 bringing production readiness and with several projects going into production on Corda in the near future, it’s time to think about some of the issues around running Corda in real production networks. In this post we will look at one set of options for monitoring ...

Monitoring Corda Nodes (Part 2) With the launch of Corda 3.0 bringing production readiness and with several projects going into production on Corda in the near future, we are digging in to some of the issues around running Corda in real production networks. In this second part we continue our exploration of monitoring with respect to ...

Katelyn Baker in Corda Hey everybody. Kat here… Release Manager for Corda 3.1 (and developer of the Corda serialization framework in my “spare” time) Delivering the Corda platform, seeing it go from a concept to open, but unreleased, alpha code, through a beta process, through to its first major releases over the past few years has been ...

Universal Interoperability: Why Enterprise Blockchain Applications Should be Deployed to Shared Networks Business needs the universal interoperability of public networks but with the privacy of private networks. Only the Corda network can deliver this. The tl;dr of this post is: Most permissioned blockchains use isolated networks for each application, and these are unable to interoperate. This makes ...

Contract Upgrades & Constraints in V3 With Blockchain and smart contracts being such uncharted territory, it’s inevitable that at some point we’ll find our contracts contain bugs (remember the DAO or Parity Wallet hack, anyone?). Or perhaps we didn’t capture all the functional or business requirements, or the regulatory landscape changed. As such, we’ll need to ...

Re-Designing the Network Map Traditional blockchain architectures distribute transactions using a gossip protocol. Each node maintains connections to a handful of peers. When a node creates a transaction, it tells its peers, who tell their peers, and so on, until the transaction has reached every node on the network. A network using a gossip protocol This model ...

Corda 1 was released nearly five months ago, and with it came an important step in the Corda journey — completion of the design and API / ABI stability for the core application programming interfaces. From this point we made a promise that application code will not break. Corda 2 was our first post-API-stability release and added ...

The Corporate Blockchain Wave I wanted to share a quick observation as I make my way to Tokyo for a packed-house CordaCon on Wednesday, March 7. If you are in the area, please stop by, and don’t forget our developer Corda Boot Camp on Saturday, March 10. Since the start of the year, I have ...

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 ...