How to make a decision about using blockchain or a database

Posted by Cédric Walter | Aug 2, 2019 | architecture | 0 |

Adapted from the original flowchart created by Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate by J.-M. Seigneur and presented at the ITU Asia-Pacific Centre of Excellence Bangkok 2018 DLT Training, 2018. The original is reproduced by D. Yaga, P. Mell, N. Roby, and K. Scarfone, “Blockchain technology overview,” National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, NIST IR 8202, 2018 (available at https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8202)

Source: United States Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate

Here is the link to a collection of decision tree that complement this post:

When do you need blockchain? Decision models.

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Cédric Walter

Cédric worked with various Insurances companies across Switzerland on online applications handling billion premium volumes. He loves to continuously spark his own creativity in many different and challenging open sources projects fueled by his great passion for innovation and blockchain technology. In his technical role as a senior solution architect, Cédric helps to define and implement innovative solutions using blockchain technologies and traditional products, solutions and services. He can support full spectrum of software development activities, starting from analyzing ideas and business cases and up to the production deployment of the solutions. Cedric is passionate about AI, white hacking and promoting test-driven development as well as agile methods to deliver clean, functional code. He strongly believes the future will be driven by decentralization, community, and global collaboration and considers blockchain a natural fit for this vision.