Buddy
Buddy comes with a solution for developers that will enable them build world class apps and services.
You'd ask how is this done?.
By creating a platform that takes away the burden from developers that can be automated allowing them back the time to be more creative while creating/developing apps.
Buddy creates over 80 detailed automation actions that assists users to deploy and developers to create. This automated actions are arranged into pipelines in a way that it makes building testing and deployment faster. With just a click developers can complete complex applications and multi-cloud software.
The aims of buddy is basically to cut down stress that developing organizations tends to go through in app generation and creation.
In proffering a solution buddy highlight four major aspects that they will focus on which are.
• in area of Automation
• Marketplace BlockchainOps
• Private automation GRIDshared
• Automation GRID
How it works
Each instance of Buddy automatically picks up a role once it appears on the grid - either a master or an agent. The master - master replication creates a High Availability system while the agent is used to run more pipelines in parallel. The first two instances to appear on the network takes up the Master role while subsequent instances automatically takes up the agent role. Though the private grid is an instance of Buddy, it is still under the full control of the original Buddy platform. Buddy is responsible for creating and removing the various instances on the private grid depending on the amount on the load on the grid.
How does Buddy solve the major challenge facing the application software industry?
The problem: Many organizations run their own centralized app development infrastructure. These are very complex development environments on which every test is done. Because of the vast number and nature of software test conducted on these platforms, they require non-stop maintenance, are very costly to set up and are big complicated tools in themselves. So organizations need a more optimized and automated environment to take care of repetitive and complex apps development operations and free up time for creative and designing aspects of the job.
Buddy provides app development solution in 3 ways to allow users choose what fits their business objective best. We will take a look at them and why each of them is special:
Using blockchainOps
Buddy aims at also pioneering development automation of blockchain- based projects. Developers can use the blockchain tech service in designing automation pipelines that instantly addresses the problems of compilation, testing and DApps monitoring. This helps simplify the rigorous processes of apps development and all... With room to make adjustments when necessary.
BlockchainOps helps improve security by test solidity contracts.
Currently the blockchainOps supports EOS and the team is currently working on adding others like ETH, NEO, ICX, TRX, NEM etc. With this introduction Buddy enables efficiency across all brockchains.
BlockchainOps also helps in easing the tasks faced developers and also encourages new users to come in and increases adoption in the long run.
Understanding The Buddy solution.
Solution 1: DevOps Automation Marketplace.
Everyone Android user is familiar with Playstore and we love it. iOS users know the Appstore. Millions of apps are available in one place, giving users the ability to download and install apps of choice with a click.
Imagine the limitless opportunities that will open up for app developers if given access to a "house" full of developers, developer tools and all the plugin scripts needed to build an application. That is what Buddy offers in the automation marketplace.
Solution 2: Private Automation Grid.
While Buddy is an app development platform on its own, users can decide to have the same services provided by Buddy available on their preferred hardware infrastructure. Already, many organizations have secure private servers or they already use a trusted cloud service and would prefer to have Buddy on the same environment. If this is what a Buddyclient wants, then Private Automation Grid got them covered.
With Private Automation Grid, Buddy creates series of replica environment or Buddy instances with all the features for apps development and deployment available in them. This private network utilizes auto-discovery and replication capabilities to create High Availability auto-scalable infrastructure for development & deployment automation.
Solution 3: Shared Automation Grid.
This is very similar to Private Automation Grid except for few differences. Some tasks are resource intensive and would otherwise take time to execute on a singular grid. The idea of a shared grid is to unload and distribute complex tasks to other users with the available resources. These users are already on the private grid. These grid of Buddy instances are utilized to relieve the load created by the resource-intensive task. This simple means that the private and and shared grid can work hand in hand to deliver optimum results.
Shared Automation Grids are especially useful in cases where the project on hand carries little or no confidentiality element. In this case where nothing is being hidden or trust is not an issue, a decentralized network of instances of Buddy can be used to achieve speedy execution of tasks in record time.
The diagram below shows how the Buddy DAO integrates a private and shared automation grids to work together
Buddy offers it's Bud token to 3 classes of users as exemplified in the automation marketplace. The chart image and table below illustrates how each category of users does in the Buddy platform:
How the automation marketplace works.
The automation marketplace fully equips developers with all the app development plugins and scripts needed to complete a project. Application software development usually involve processes like performance monitoring, visual testing, security evaluation, etc. These are essential processes that app development passes through. In the automation marketplace, these processes are called actions. So the marketplace comes pre-loaded with more than 80 actions that users can tap into in due stages of their project. These actions are standalone executable scripts and plugins for app development.
Advantages of the Automation market place
In creating this market place it insures the functionality and growth of the Buddy ecosystem because
• it gives an opportunity for developers to constantly improve in creation and innovation of new apps.
• It creates a competitive atmosphere that challenges and brings out the best in developers as it gives rooms for improved and updated scripts
• It encourages Third party options
• There are over 80 pipeline options for the developer to choose from. Unlimited options to produce unlimited results
• Using securify buddy creates a more secure environment for developers
• Third party developers will be allowed the opportunity of charging and marking money from solutions offered and also allowing them the liberty of putting up plugins for free using the market place.
Shared Automation GRID
A Shared Automation GRID is similar to a Private Automation GRID, except that it is more open as it allows others on the Buddy network to run some of the instances to off-load resource intensive tasks.
The Private and Shared Automation GRID can be integrated to work with one another.
The major and simple illustration to this is that a private GRID is used to create and deploy a software to the buddy network but in other to prove the credibility of the software deployed the Shared GRID is used to test and prove its credibility by running tests on the software. This tests are run on the main software and can be run at once using different buddy instances.
ECONOMY
It has a strong economy and a great impact in this world of cryptocoins that today has placed itself in the global economy, thus being one of the best apps to use today.
Conclusion
Buddy creates an environment of ease for the user and developers as it helps improve accessibility to scripts that were expensive and highly cumbersome to be used by a single user before. Buddy presents developers with a market platform that allows and gives them full access to these tools on a platter. Also through the blockchainOps secures the developers and users thereby increasing the trustworthiness of the blockchain network and increasing mass aboption of the network.
With Buddy, developers can test the smart contracts. Given that many of these applications are used to transfer value, testing to ensure stability, security and integrity is an extremely important process that cannot be overlooked.
Instead of manually testing, or running numerous tests locally that take a long time, developers can rely on Buddy. Every time a developer pushes a commit to the branch,Buddy will build and test the EOSIO smart contracts. If a developer is working with a team, they can automate notifications every time any of the team members make a commit!
BUD Token & Economy
The Buddy platform already has 7,000 devs who utilize their tools for their projects every day!
The Buddy platform will use BUD tokens to create an economy for developers to make purchases from the automation market as well as utilize the Automation GRIDs.
BUD tokens will allow developers to earn from sharing their tools on the platform while users can purchase those tools using BUD tokens.
By joining the Buddyeconomy users can also act as nodes for the Automation GRID and earn from their computers being utilized to run tasks for developers!
ROAD MAP
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