At the risk of appearing overly excited, let me say this clearly: Buddy is set to become the backbone on which talented people can effortlessly build apps and services that will revolutionize the tech world using the disruptive power of the Blockchain.
Majority evidence points to Buddy disrupting and emerging as a leading player in the $110 billion application development and deployment software industry. Indicators point to the Buddy ICO, already popular with leading ICO review sites and forums, becoming the hottest favorite for developers and experts all over the world.
Led by a team of experienced industry experts, meticulously planned and presented, Buddy’s credibility is assured, its road map realistic and its team more than capable.
No wonder, over 7,000 developers already use Buddy every day across 120+ countries. Already featuring reputed customers such INC. Magazine, CGI.com & ING Bank, and Partnered with leading cloud leaders such as:-
Buddy is a winning automation platform for app development bound to dominate a rapidly growing market valued to become $345 billion by 2022.
And this is not just me going gaga on Buddy! It is all real: Buddy is fast disrupting the $110 billion application development and deployment software industry as we yet know it.
What is Buddy?
But what exactly is this Buddy phenomenon? Let’s get critical, let’s focus on the specificities and discuss why and how Buddy is about to radically change how today’s developers build, test and deploy their apps.
Buddy is a “Decentralized Development Automation Platform”. Simply put, Buddy is a decentralized platform for developers to effortlessly build and deploy software and apps. By making the entire process automated with a host of developer friendly features, including over 80 carefully crafted ‘actions’ or steps for developing and deploying software, Buddy’s platform is tailored for both inexperienced and seasoned developers.
So what
As it is, the application development and deployment software industry is confronted by 3 key problems:-Barriers to adoption, obsolete tools and scaling difficulty. To these, Buddy proposes some solutions. Summarily put, and quoting from its white paper:-
It streamlines the entire application development & deployment process. It frees up developers’ time for creativity and innovation as well as drastically improving and easing their workload.
Buddy undertakes to do this by applying a culture-shifting approach, using flexibility and excellence to support cross-teams to reach their mission goals and at the same time maintain high levels of performance. Secondly, Buddy proposes an open model, premised to serve as a framework for skilled app developers to provide add-ons for differing stacks of development automation, and third, Buddy avails auto-scaling features.
1. How will Buddy impact the development and deployment process?
Buddy is a decentralized development automation platform whose mission includes vertically applying automation into the application development process, based on the premise that freeing developers from time wasting repetitive tasks that can be automated, would allow them to wholly focus on the more creative challenges to improve the blockchain.
Accordingly, it offers innovative tools that simplify continuous development and makes it easy for one to start on automated code testing and continuous deployment.
To quote directly from their WHITE PAPER - Buddy has over 80 carefully crafted automation actions that help users develop and deploy software.
Arranged in pipelines, these actions, the WHITE PAPER explains, make building, testing and deploying even complex applications and multi-cloud workflows, only a click away. Developers are moreover able to gather feedback and make improvements without going through a laborious iteration cycle.
Those who have previously deployed an app, will best testify to the headache of correctly signing and provisioning your app, including the burden of hunting down and fixing bug and crash issues reported by users.
Buddy’s platform will fortunately allow you configure your mobile app for repaid development, and to subsequently quickly integrate and deploy routine changes to your app users.
And not only that, by utilizing Buddy’s awesome platform, third party developers that so wish, are enabled by Buddy to deliver their own actions - on top of its 80+ actions – within the Buddy ecosystem, and to use them in their own development automation pipelines.
A workflow driven by pipelines – a series of steps or ‘actions’ running in sequence against your repository - is accordingly the foundation for Buddy’s utility, including in general, continuous development, making Buddy faster than several of its competitors on two accounts:-
Its steps or actions are run in Docker containers. Lunching the environment for an action, especially on subsequent runs, is thus easier and quicker to perform.
Actions share a file system common to the rest within a given pipeline. Unless updated, one is required to download dependencies usually only once, making Buddy’s file system very handy for storing environmental configurations without need for committing them to source control.
Furthermore, by automating testing and making it easy to plug into the work flow of any dApps development, Buddy increases the quality and safety of smart contracts. The idea is to drastically increase code quality by eliminating unnecessary code rewrites that when delayed, consume more time, besides requiring additional testing. This will effectively reduce shipment time.
Overall, unlike its competitors, in Buddy, developers now have the tools to build a one-stop app development loop: building continuously, testing and deploying, and then gathering user’s feedback and repeating, effectively eliminating need for continuous integration and deployment.
2. How will attracting more developers to switch over to blockchain help blockchain technology prosper?
Attracting more developers to switch over to blockchain will help Blockchain technology prosper in a number of ways. Recent years have seen a proliferation in the adoption of Blockchain technology, a significant progress from the years of being held in suspicion, being considered as a force to be reckoned with to this point in time where it is being touted as the future, and being massively adopted in various areas of human activity.
Suffice to say that the Blockchain has proven itself and made possible things once not even thought off. The use of blockchain significantly increases efficiency and provides benefits including among others, such as transparency and high speed of operations.
However for blockchain to fully realize its potential, developers are required to build on it, to experiment with it, and add new pools of knowledge. There are yet undiscovered and unexplored possibilities the blockchain has which only talented developers, fast thinking and creative can unlock.
3. How does the automation Marketplace help ensure that the Buddy ecosystem can continue to grow?
Buddy’s automation marketplace, besides attracting individual talents, indirectly encourages team oriented dApp development, by facilitating a quick and easy integration of new and early code developers, both experienced and inexperienced. So we shall not only be seeing individual developers come, but groups of developers
And then, as for example happens with Android apps in Google play. Buddy by allowing anybody to submit their own ‘actions’ to the DevOps marketplace, free or paid, literally invites developers to freely use and benefit from its 80+ actions while granting them the freedom and opportunity to contribute and experiment with ideas of their own. This is a powerful and indiscriminate incentive that will attract both amateur and seasoned developers into the Buddy ecosystem, thus growing its human resource and knowledge pools.
Third party developers too are incentivized; Buddy helps them to profit by charging for solutions they submit to the DevOps Marketplace, at the same time, allowing them to publish plugins for free. This invariably enhances the functionality of the Buddy platform and allows for a steady and scalable revenues stream.
Such is the freedom and incentive Buddy offers, developers will be thronging into its DevOps marketplace. But of course, because, at the end of the day, the idea is to encourage innovations and support talented developers, and protect authors from copycats, the marketplace content will be curated by a dedicated decentralized autonomous organization run by Buddy token holders.
Notice, the plugins these developers submit will be required to remain open-source in the part which is executed on Buddy. Authors who want to participate in the marketplace are required to allow free usage of their apps by non-commercial open source projects. This is a salient advantage that will grow the Buddy ecosystem as more developers are allured by the free opportunity to build on what already exists, and Buddy user traffic will increase in the quest for free quality assured apps.
4. How is the current lack of developer tools and automation scripts creating a barrier of entry for developers to work on blockchain projects?
First and most important to bear in mind - blockchain technology is an emerging industry, an unfamiliar tech territory. Without developer tools and automation scripts, developers have to start from scratch, subjected to cycles of expensive and more time consuming testing and repeating, compared to the traditional cloud app.
And then, simply building an application is not enough. Applications built on the block chain must finally be deployed into production and supported. This requires an eco-system of developer support services, including curated knowledge bases for blockchain technology and developer tools, the lack of which is currently a barrier to prospective developers.
Furthermore, the lack of developer tools and automation scripts presently makes developing a functional protocol or decentralized application on the blockchain a daunting task, even for the most seasoned developers because it requires developers to start from scratch, as such condemning their application development to rigorous resource consuming regressions.
As it is, to build software on the blockchain, developers must have knowledge and understanding of mathematics, and of coding or programming intricacies, particularly in the Solidity language as well as cryptography. This is an entry barrier for emerging developers that would otherwise be resolved using a suite of tools for app development and maintenance.
Also, ideally, a quick and easy way for developers to enter and acclimatize with blockchain technology would be through team oriented development processes. Working as teams however, even in cloud based apps is no child play, it is worse in blockchain technology. Ideally, group developer teams working on the same code would want to easily find and avoid regressions, and above else operate in a conventional and mutually understandable way, through a well-defined agreed upon style. Without developer tools and automations scripts, this is a barrier of entry for developers into the blockchain.
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