Microsoft Azure has announced the release of an early version of its new project Bletchley and the next level of detail regarding the roadmap of features for Cryptlets.

“We expand on the work we have done to create a diverse distributed ledger ecosystem for private dev/test to focus on the requirements of private multi-node consortium networks,” Christine Avanessians, senior program manager at Microsoft Azure stated in a blog post.

The project Bletchley v1 is the release of the first consortium blockchain template, which allows signing up a private consortium Ethereum network from a handful of nodes to 100s of nodes in the network. The project reduces the 3-week time frame of setting up globally distributed multi-node consortium Ethereum network. Bletchley v1 also establishes a portal for quickly getting started developing applications on Ethereum, explained Marley Gray, principle program manager of Azure blockchain engineering in his post.

“Rather than spending hours building out and configuring the infrastructure, we have automated these time-consuming pieces to allow you to focus on your core business – re-envisioning and reinventing business processes to come up with the new stories of tomorrow,” Christine added.

Apart from this, the company has also revealed the roadmap for Bletchley with details about Cryptlets. These Cryptlets are the foundations for a new layer of capability called Cryptlet Fabric, where these components can be developed, published and accessed in a standard way. Developers, architects, and business process modeling tools can discover these Cryptlet Fabric for easy use. It can also be created with an SDK to expose your own logic for reuse and sale. 

“Cryptlets provide a common and approachable way for developers to use cross-cutting capabilities like integration into existing systems, secure execution and data, privacy, scalability in programming languages enterprise developers use most,” Marley stated.

Bletchley project will use the worldwide footprint offered by Microsoft Azure in order to offer a hyper-scale secure data and execution platform. This will help in building the next generation applications on any blockchain platform.

Microsoft Azure earlier in June announced the project with two new concepts – Blockchain middleware and Cryptlet.