Having built a Hyperledger Fabric blockchain platform inside a fintech startup over the last three years I am completely unsurprised by this announcement.
From the start the HLF platform appeared to be extremely optimized for demos and quick start tutorials but fell flat for any production use. The operational complexity of the Hyperledger Fabric spirals uncontrollably with the tight ‘enterprise style’ control layered on top (the extensive use of certificate authorities—an external chain of trust at conflict with the blockchain) resulted in extensive administration overhead.
Early on we would joke occasionally that the platform seemed to be designed around an idea that customers should be overwhelmed and just choose to have IBM host the network instead. I absolutely do not regret our decision to move off of the platform in the slightest.
I'm in the same boat. I was put on a hyperledger project last year. The configuration was like 4 maybe 5 certs or private keys. We were using the AWS blockchain stuff and it uses a version that's like a year or two behind. The code, samples, everything felt super enterprise level crazy. I would be super surprised if I hear a company puts Hyperledger into production beyond some silly PR stunt.
From the start the HLF platform appeared to be extremely optimized for demos and quick start tutorials but fell flat for any production use. The operational complexity of the Hyperledger Fabric spirals uncontrollably with the tight ‘enterprise style’ control layered on top (the extensive use of certificate authorities—an external chain of trust at conflict with the blockchain) resulted in extensive administration overhead.
Early on we would joke occasionally that the platform seemed to be designed around an idea that customers should be overwhelmed and just choose to have IBM host the network instead. I absolutely do not regret our decision to move off of the platform in the slightest.