Lowering the barrier to entry, is key for increased adoption of blockchain based technologies into enterprises. Irrespective of the business value, that blockchains bring, there is a need to decrease the cost, pain and risk of integrating blockchains with existing applications in the enterprise.
Most large enterprises today, have established ERPs, CRMs, or cloud native custom applications, running 24 x 7. It makes sense to interface the new blockchain tech, harmoniously into the enterprise architecture landscape.
Its quite practical to assume that, most organizations, while they would want to participate in a blockchain and get all the benefits, will most likely be reluctant to do any major modifications to their existing enterprise apps. The need of the hour is, to ease ingestion of data onto the blockchain, without requiring expensive UI based / operational alternatives.
Presented below are a few ideas, for ingesting data onto blockchains, in an automated and batched manner, with minimal integration development and risk. Refer my earlier article about, wrapping up blockchain clients inside REST webservices, the below ideas can be used in conjunction with the REST adapters.
ERP Application Logs >> Logstash >> Http Post to Blockchain REST adapters >> Blockchain
Existing Application JDBC DB >> Database Polling >> Http Post to Blockchain REST adapters >> Blockchain
Existing Application publish message >> Topics (Message Provider/Kafka) >> Logstash >> Http Post to Blockchain REST adapters >> Blockchain
When the need for capturing data onto the blockchain is critical, more reliable and resilient, pipeline with Kafka based topics can be used.
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