First Look Into Blockchain: How to Develop, Test, and Deploy Blockchain Applications

Blockchain is an emerging way for businesses, industries, and public organizations to almost instantaneously make and verify transactions — streamlining business processes, saving money, and reducing the potential for fraud.

At its core, a blockchain is a data structure that’s used to create a digital transaction ledger that, instead of resting with a single provider, is shared among a distributed network of computers.

Join Lex Thomas and Razi Rais as they break down some blockchain concepts and then show us how to develop a simple hello world style blockchain solution and deploy it using Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS).

• [0:57] What is Blockchain?
• [2:14] How is this different than a standard distributed database?
• [5:16] DEMO: Introduction and Overview of Blockchain in a Dev/Test lab on Azure
• [30:40] DEMO: Blockchain and .NET

Learn more about Blockchain as a Service

If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:

Websites & Blogs:

• Microsoft Services Premier Support
• Project Bletchley
• DevTest Labs (Quick Deploy Blockchain)
  * Azure Marketplace Blockchain Offerings
  * Azure Quickstart Templates
• Create your own Custom Private/Consortium Blockchain Network

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