Buddy: Decentralized Development Automation Platform

One thing that is a constant as time goes on, is that companies wish to improve on how their business is run. Working more efficiently, and ensuring that the best ROI is achieved.

Application automation has a lot of positives for organizations, but there are a lot stumbling blocks that prevent them from harnessing its potentials.
Test running applications before deployment can take a lot of time and resources, before set goals are achieved. These have a direct effect on timeframes, and also profit margins in the long run.

BUDDY: ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM
Buddy is a solution created by developers who understand the pain development teams face, when trying to deploy applications and services.

Bigger organizations run thousands of tests, and they they do not have all the time in the world before they go to market. Before now, every single step had to be carried out manually, ensuring that results took a longer time, not forgetting that little disadvantage of human error.

To achieve faster results, companies invest heavily in infrastructure, to ensure that they meet set goals, and they are on schedule. This makes the process clogged up, costly, and requiring round the clock attention.

Buddy ensures that this no longer has to be the case.

Some metrics that affect scaling of DevOps are:

How often deployment takes place

Lead time

New features to be added

Fixes Volume

Availability

Percentage of failed deployments

Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)

To ensure that organizations expend their energy on their core product(s)/service(s), rather than maintaining infrastructure, Buddy has three solutions which it uses to ensure that organizations achieve this.

I) DevOps Marketplace II) Private Automation GRID III) Shared Automation GRID

DEVOPS MARKETPLACE: Buddy has created more than 80 automated actions, that ensures that the process of developing and deploying software is very easy. These actions are sorted into pipelines, ensuring that the process of creating, testing and deploying is achieved by clicking a few buttons.

Just like Google Play Store or App Store for iOS, the marketplace is open to freelance developers, who are free to create solutions that will be helpful for teams and organisations, with regards to this. Such solutions can be listed as paid or free, and these teams can use them in creating their own development automation pipelines. Of course, uploads have to meet Buddy’s standard, before they go live on the platform.

This encourages developers to create solutions that will ensure the ecosystem thrives, they will get rewarded for their actions-thanks to BUD tokens, and all round progress will be achieved on the blockchain, leading to more adoption and growth, capturing more of the mainstream market.

Great solutions created ensure that revenue of such companies grows, and as these companies scale up, it creates more opportunities for more individuals, bringing about growth of the industry, and gives centralized solutions a reason to switch to the blockchain.

PRIVATE AUTOMATION GRID: Every organization has its secrets and tricks, they employ to stay ahead of the pack. These and other information could be sensitive, and with trust and security issues to go along, private networks will be the surer bet.

The method here is to create a network of Buddy instances that will use auto-discovery and replication capabilities to create High Availability auto-scalable infrastructure for development and deployment automation.

Users are also able to add private cloud services and IaaS into the mix, to run Buddy instances.

It also creates room for auto-scaling as the need arises.

SHARED AUTOMATION GRID: Power and storage intensive automation processes can be shifted to a Buddy network, made up of users. This is recommended, when the data passing through this network is not sensitive.
Third party users storage is simply used to carry out test, compile tests results, and send them back to the requester. Once this is accomplished, storage is released.

Requesters use BUD tokens to enjoy this service.

Other instances where this could be used are stress testing, performance monitoring, and availability monitoring of production environments.

ADVANTAGES OF THE AUTOMATION GRID OVER SUPERCOMPUTERS, SUCH AS GOLEM AND SONM
AUTOMATED BY DESIGN:Processes on Buddy are automated, and do not require complex processes, as it is the case with supercomputers. User interaction is not required to handle tasks on the platform.

FIXED AND LOCAL RESOURCES:Supercomputers usually require a lot of resources, and when these resources needed are not available, processes can be terminated.

CONTROL:Protecting Intellectual Property rights on supercomputers cannot be guaranteed to the fullest. On Private Automation GRIDS, users are fully in control, so everything on the Private Network is secure.

USER EXPERIENCE: Buddy’s UI is easy to navigate through, which is not the case on supercomputers.

NO OVERHEAD AND NO FEES:Private Automation GRIDS are owned by the user, and these do not attract any additional costs. Main communication remains direct, with no risks attached.

CHALLENGES:Supercomputers come with a lot of technical risks, and these risks prevent it from being suitable for some projects. Buddy’s Shared Automation GRID makes use of existing technologies, and are much simpler.

BUDDY FOR BLOCKCHAIN APPS
Deploying smart contracts and DApps can be a tedious process, even for very experienced developers. Just one error in development can create a loophole for hackers to take advantage of.
Tools to make this process easier, and ensure that developers work more efficiently, are largely non-existent.

Thanks to projects such as Truffle, Lisk and also Buddy, this is changing, ensuring that blockchain development can be executed much more effectively.

Buddy achieves this efficiency via a number of solutions.

BLOCKCHAINOPS
Just like Buddy created solutions for Web developers to deploy applications easily, so also can blockchain developers.
They simply achieve this using a pick and drop process.

dAppsOS
These are ready to use development environments. They are compatible with addon services, such as MySQL, Mongo and Redis to extend development.
They can work as standalone environments for development, for testing/preview or they can be assigned to a branch and updated on every push for collaboration and feedback.
Using Buddy’s cloud ensures that teams spread around the world can work on projects from anywhere and at anytime.
They can also be channeled to training, with regards to smart contracts and DApps.
Template universe is a marketplace for dAppsOS templates and Sandbox created by freelance developers.
Buddy will support built-in dAppsOS templates for Ethereum, Hyperledger, Nem and Multichain development.

DISTRIBUTED BAAS
With the aid of the blockchain, teams can focus on their core products or service. Using Buddy, even a new blockchain can be created by the click of a button.

These tools highlighted above, ensure that blockchain adoption is much easier for developers, and factors that hinder application development on the blockchain are done away with.

USE CASES
RENTAL HOME: CozyHomes is a decentralized home rental organization that leverages on blockchain technology to meet the needs of their clients. Having different components, CozyHomes uses a number of workflows to handle their development workflow from each phase of the process.

Buddy ensures that solutions created by CozyHomes are bugs free, and there are not vulnerabilities that can be taken advantage of.

Buddy is can also be applied in the creation of smart contracts and DApps in general.

BUDDY’S IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT PROCESS
Buddy ensures that the development and deployment process of applications on and off the blockchain is seamless, without stress, and can be achieved in a few clicks.

Being able to run thousands of tests ensures that less time and resources are spent, ensuring no bugs and vulnerabilities are present.

It also ensures that teams can focus on their core product/service, and resources can be put to better use where they are most needed. This ensures that organisations get a better ROI and that they stay on schedule, with regards to timelines and deployment of products/services.

TOKEN
BUD is the only token used within the platform, and this is essentially used for the transfer of value.

CONCLUSION
When tools that developers need to create better solutions are lacking, it ensures that the needs of users cannot be met adequately or at all. This will force such users to look for alternatives in traditional marketplaces.
The blockchain will be less attractive to developers, seeing tools that will have increased their productivity and what they can create with them are non-existent. In so doing, they will not have any reason to make the switch over to the blockchain, seeing the sector isn’t ready or seemingly serious about advancing.

Buddy has a working solution, which is already adding real value to teams around the world. It is not theoretical, but actually being put into practice.

Revolutionary solutions such as Buddy will ensure that the blockchain will continue to catch on, and mass adoption occurs, sooner rather than later.

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