White Paper Published: Blockchain for the Enterprise

Keyhole Software .NET, Articles, Blockchain, Company News, Java Leave a Comment

The Keyhole team is proud to announce the publishing of a new white paper: Blockchain For The Enterprise. 

While Bitcoin is on the minds of the general public worldwide, blockchain is on the minds of information technology professionals. It is the underpinning technology of the powerful and popular cryptocurrency. What exactly is blockchain and how will it help my business? That is what this white paper seeks to answer.

In the most simple terms, a blockchain is a distributed data system for keeping a ledger of immutable data transactions. We will explore additional complexities through this document, but the simplest way to think of it is a highly distributed transaction log. If you happen to be a developer and you are using Git for source code control, you are already using some of the distributed blockchain elements.

In this white paper, we discuss a number of topics related to blockchain with a particular emphasis on the enterprise. This document will be in three major parts. Part one will include a brief overview and history of blockchain, part two will include a deep technical dive, and the third part is written with the intent to aid managers and executives in their decision making in regards to blockchain…

Blockchain For The Enterprise

White Paper Blockchain For The Enterprise Introduction to Blockchain Architecture and Its Value to the Enterprise No registration required. White Paper Topics In this free white paper, we discuss a number of topics related to blockchain. Topics include: What is a Blockchain? Building a Blockchain How Are Blockchains Used? Blockchain vs. Traditional Data Structures Should I Use Blockchain? Blockchain Use …

Taking on the Azure Developer Certification (70-532) Exam

Vince Pendergrass .NET, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Opinion, Service Fabric 7 Comments

Many of the companies that we work with use various cloud providers (such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft) for IT Service Delivery. This has created a great need for those who assist these companies to possess the technical skills required for proper and effective implementation of such services.

An excellent way to make yourself stand apart from the crowd in this space (and your company for that matter), is to obtain a developer/architect certification, such as the Microsoft Azure Developer Certification. Plus, if your company is focusing on becoming a Microsoft partner, it may be necessary to have a few developers on your team spend some time working to become certified. Fortunately, my awesome company Keyhole Software presented me with this opportunity.

In this blog, I share what I did to prepare for the Azure developer certification, specifically the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification exam. I’ll include a couple of prep tools that helped me significantly, as well as a few unexpected “gotchas” I encountered when taking the exam…

One Router to Rule Them All: React Router

Mat Warger Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React Leave a Comment

Previously, we looked at a very basic example of how one can benefit greatly by using community projects such as Formik to avoid the tedium of certain solutions while embracing convention to create composable and scalable applications. We will be build on that foundation to explore the objectively great library that is React Router.

React Router has been at the forefront of routing in the React ecosystem for as long as I can remember. If you’re new to React, this is the way to go when you move state and start needing more options such as parameterized routing, nesting, and conditional rendering. If you have experience with React, this brings a powerful pattern to bear in that everything is a component. It takes the composablity of React and uses that to its benefit, handling any and all use-cases with relative ease.

In this blog, we’ll introduce the basics of the React Router through hands-on examples using its features.