A Developer's View Into Blockchain Network Architecture

Jesse Robbins joins a Blockdaemon-hosted panel moderated by Konstantin Richter at Heavybit examining blockchain infrastructure through a developer tools lens — applying the same framework he uses for evaluating any infrastructure category: how does it perform in production, how do you monitor it, and what does the tooling ecosystem need to mature?

The panel brings together Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger; Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Stellar; and Jake Craige, Lead Developer at Coinbase. Topics span the full stack of infrastructure concerns: the real tradeoffs of decentralization versus technical debt, standardization of distributed systems, node management, metrics and monitoring requirements, and the regulatory landscape. Robbins frames the conversation around practical questions for developers building on blockchain infrastructure — the same operational and reliability concerns he has applied since his time at Amazon and through the DevOps movement.