Monday, September 21, 2020

Introducing Lisk Service

Hey there,

We are excited to announce the release of Lisk Service.

Lisk Service is a completely new product joining our ecosystem. It acts as a service layer between blockchain data and user interfaces by providing accessible and powerful API calls. We use it, amongst others, to provide Lisk Desktop with enriched data from the Lisk network, such as delegate or network statistics.

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Lisk Service

After completing the development process, we are happy to announce that a new product is joining the Lisk ecosystem - Lisk Service. Lisk Service is an essential part of the Lisk product line-up, as it offers the possibility to access and browse blockchain data, by providing accessible and powerful new API calls.

Lisk Service acts as a service layer, meaning it is a proxy between blockchain data and user interfaces. Whilst the Lisk SDK is focused on providing a developer with important blockchain functionalities, such as a public key infrastructure or the consensus algorithm, Lisk Service comes into play when blockchain data has to be provided fast and efficient to user interfaces.

Lisk Service is fully written in JavaScript and runs on the Node.js V8 virtual machine. It's based on an extensible microservices architecture and combined with a high-performance database, which makes providing data in an uncomplicated manner effortless. Each microservice is focused on providing one particular functionality and data is always served in JSON format and exposed by a public RESTful API.

Easily Accessible Blockchain Data

Lisk Service can be used with any blockchain application built with the Lisk SDK and following the Lisk protocol. The key principle is to provide services and features that are complementary to the blockchain application.

Internally, we use it to provide our user interfaces blockchain data, specifically all blockchain data persisting within Lisk Core to Lisk Desktop and Lisk Mobile. Lisk Service makes it possible to access real-time blockchain data in a similar approach to the regular Lisk Core API. However, to keep the Lisk SDK flexible and lean, we minimized it's API capabilities which are mirrored on Lisk Core. That's where Lisk Service comes into play by providing developers with much more powerful capabilities.