Exploring The Enhancements Of The Oracle Blockchain Platform (OBP) To Fabric

This session will cover the features of the Oracle Blockchain Platform (OBP) based on Hyperledger Fabric including the enhancements Oracle has made to Fabric.

OBP is a managed Blockchain as a Service offering from Oracle that makes is extremely easy to set up, configure, and manage a Fabric network.

As a fully managed service Oracle takes care of patching, upgrading, ensuring availability, etc. leaving the user to focus on blockchain and not what it takes to get a production ready blockchain network up and running.

As well as a development tool called App Builder, it allows developers to quickly create, debug, and deploy smart contracts based upon a specification file that defines the smart contracts assets, including support for tokens. It’s a bit like the deprecated Composer project and includes both a CLI and VScode extension.

Todd is currently Chief Architect for the Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service that was released in July of 2018. He is responsible for overall architecture and security for the service.

Todd has also participated in the Hyperledger Privacy and Confidentiality Working Group and the Hyperledger Performance and Scale Working Group.

Todd is also the Chief Architect for Tuxedo in the Oracle Fusion Middleware development organization. He is responsible for defining the technical strategy and direction for the Tuxedo product family, including Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Tuxedo Jolt, Oracle Tuxedo System and Application Monitor, Oracle Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo, Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter, Oracle Tuxedo Message Queue, and Oracle Message Queue. Prior to being acquired by Oracle, Todd was Chief Architect for BEA Tuxedo at BEA Systems, Inc. While at BEA Systems, Todd was responsible for defining the technical strategy and direction for the Tuxedo product family. Todd developed the Tuxedo Control for WebLogic Workshop that greatly simplified the usage of Tuxedo services from Workshop based applications. Todd also received two patents for methods allowing design patterns in a UML modeling tool to control the generation of software artifacts. Todd currently has 37 patents to his name with another 5 in process. During his more than 40 years of software architecture and development experience, Todd has worked on a wide range of software systems and technology.