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A Blockchain-Based Micro-services Architecture for Distributed Business

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Blockchain – ICBC 2023 (ICBC 2023)

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With the growth of modern businesses in scale and complexity, digital applications that span service boundaries, connect multiple organizations, and manage user identities require careful consideration. Existing enterprise architectures are monolithic, creating obstacles for digital transformation to distributed multi-enterprise ecosystems. We propose a blockchain-based micro-services architecture that enables the self-driven construction of distributed businesses with capabilities for adaptation, innovation, and robustness. By extending the concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), we developed the Blockchain Service Bus (BSB) model across enterprise scenarios. Different entities can register micro-services on the blockchain to form a unified, standardized platform that accelerates a new stage of the distributed ecosystem. Under this architecture, end-users can own a unified, decentralized identity. It allows the seamless integration of services across organizations in a federated economy, motivating scalable collaborative business models.

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Acknowledgement

This work is supported by the Key-Area R &D Program of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 2020B0101090003) and General Program of Shenzhen Science and Technology Plan, China (Grant No. JSGG20191129110603831). The authors would like to express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang, Dr. Huan Chen and Dr. Jing Zeng for their insightful discussions and invaluable assistance.

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    Sheng He, Yishuang Ning, Dengbin Xiong & Junhui Ma

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He, S., Ning, Y., Xiong, D., Ma, J. (2023). A Blockchain-Based Micro-services Architecture for Distributed Business. In: Wang, Q., Feng, J., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Blockchain – ICBC 2023. ICBC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14206. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44920-8_3

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