 Microsoft has announced the initial release of the Azure Blockchain Development Kit on 15, November 2018. The kit is built on Microsoft’s serverless technologies and seamlessly integrates blockchain with the best of Microsoft. The Azure Blockchain Development Kit is regarded as a great platform for blockchain application development. It makes "developing end to end blockchain applications accessible, fast, and affordable to anyone with an idea." Here is a summary of the concluding words from a post in Microsoft Blog: "It is built atop our investments in blockchain and connects to the compute, data, messaging, and integration services available in both Azure and the broader Microsoft Cloud to provide a robust palette for a developer to realize their vision. "Logic Apps and Flow deliver a graphical design environment with more than 200 connectors dramatically simplifying the development of end to end blockchain solutions, and Azure Functions enable the rapid integration of custom code. "A serverless approach also reduces costs and management overhead. With no VMs to manage, built-in scalability, and an approachable pricing model the Azure Blockchain Development Kit is within reach of every developer – from enthusiasts to ISVs to enterprises. "Solutions are written using online visual workflow designers and Visual Studio Code, a free download that provides an integrated development environment on Windows, Mac, and Linux. "The resulting applications will run atop a network that has higher rated cloud performance than other large-scale providers and enable federating identities between participants using Azure Active Directory. With Azure, those applications can be deployed to more regions than any other cloud provider and benefit from more certifications...." "To learn more about how to use these samples to build and extend blockchain applications, you can find a host of videos on.." |