Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), one of the hottest topics in the blockchain ecosphere right now, which represent unique, non-interchangeable pieces of data, are implemented using smart contracts that can be interacted with any type of applications, both blockchain based (other smart contracts) and not (like web apps for example). One of…

Creating Docker container images with build pipeline, whether it’s with GitHub Actions or any other such tool, is common and straight forward. But what if you can’t or don’t want to use Docker container images, and instead, you want to rely on VM images? Well, no problem, there’s a solution…

The biggest challenge when developing stateful services, is synchronizing changes to state across all instances of a service. The purpose of the synchronization process that is taking place constantly between all instances is to reach a single consensus on what is considered the correct state. There are diverse ways to…

As Ethereum’s mainnet state continue to grow, it also lengthens the time it takes to fast-sync a node, specifically, a Go Ethereum node (`geth` for short), which we will be deploying in this article. …

Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft’s managed machine leaning service, has multiple mechanisms to pull data for processing. …

EthSigner, an Ethereum transaction signer which separates private key management from transaction validation, can be used to sign transactions by using keys protected in a variety of storage mechanisms. One of those supported mechanisms is Azure Key Vault and its software and hardware security module (HSM) based key protection offerings. …

Azure Blockchain Service, Microsoft Azure’s managed blockchain offering, delivers a simple deployment of a multi-node blockchain solution, without the hustle of defining and managing the underlying virtual machines, storage and network. As the service is still in preview, at least at the moment, some scenarios that are common with cloud…

Azure Batch service, a job scheduling and computing power allocation managed solution, allows running jobs on pools of virtual machines of our choice. …

The most important piece of information for every Ethereum wallet owner, is the private key. It is the most important because loss of that private key will result in the owner not being able to access the tokens associated to that wallet, without any possibility of recovery. In some blockchain…