Notes on Programming Hyperledger Fabric

I just finished writing a book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578802228

In this post I am making some notes and fun facts about the book for remembrance.

Original TOC

Final TOC

Blockchain Primer Introducing Hyperledger Fabric A proof of concept app Setting up your infrastructure Securing communications with OpenSSL Establishing the user registry with LDAP Generating certificates with Fabric CA Membership services and policies Transaction ordering The Peers Channels Implementing business logic using Chaincode Fabric Node.js SDK Advanced Topics Appendix A: Installation and setup

Blockchain Primer A Closer Look at Fabric Writing Your First Smart Contract Generating Identities Required to Bootstrap a Network Provisioning a Three Org Test or Development Network Debugging Fabric Provisioning Channel and Installing Chaincode Performing Transactions on the Network Updating Channel Configuration Dockerizing the Network Securing Communications with TLS Handling Data Privacy Running Fabric CA Server Using Fabric CA Client to obtain X.509 Certificates Authenticating Users using LDAP Bonus Chapter: The Bitcoin Appendix A: Installing Software and Prerequisites Appendix B: Summary of Commands

And here is a word cloud – list of most commonly occurring words in the book curated to remove common words like like, when, which, user, using, then, what etc.

$ python counter.py full.adoc
[('Fabric', 447), ('peer', 446), ('chaincode', 330), ('certificate', 314), ('Docker', 290), ('orderer', 287), ('client', 285), ('block', 250), ('server', 237), ('container', 224)]

The full manuscript itself is about 1MB in size containing about 150,000 words

$ ls -al full.adoc
-rw-r--r--  1 sjain68  staff  1033787 Dec 17 10:26 full.adoc
$ wc -w full.adoc
  151713 full.adoc