“A good developer does not have to repeat himself” – 1
The average time it takes to build an app is 4-6 months 2 because of the infinite number of tasks required in developing the app. Most parts of the process involve repetitions and time-consuming aspects that are considered boring by developers, and could instead be assigned to bots – a task the BUDDY platform effectively carries out.
The BUDDY project is not a new idea, but an already working project that has proven to be very successful at revolutionizing and positively contributing to the DevOps market, by automating the repetitive and redundant aspects of the application development process.
Here are a few testimonials to prove the fact that BUDDY has been delivering and providing solutions for years now.
Having been tremendously successful at satisfying the needs of web developers for years by introducing development automation to web developers, BUDDY, in addition to its present numerous benefits, is now taking advantage of the benefits the blockchain industry makes available, by pioneering development automation of Blockchian-based projects.
This will make the BUDDY platform far above its competitors, because there is no other platform in the market with the decentralized property that the blockchain affords, hence tremendously increasing security and data protection.
BUDDY is a decentralized blockchain-based development and deployment platform, created to increase the ease of carrying out automated application development activities, that is, making the development and deployment of applications much more easy, secure, focused, and time saving, by automating repetitive and redundant aspects of the application development process.
COMPONENTS OF THE BUDDY PLATFORM
BUDDY has four major components:
- Pipelines
- Sandboxes
- Version control
- Integrations
PIPELINES
You can’t talk about automation without including repeatable, reliable, and an incrementally improving process, that takes the product from concept to consumer. Because the process has to be a continually improving one, hence continuous changes must be experienced. The pipeline is what makes these continuous changes to happen.
Just like lines of code are the building blocks of a program, actions are the building blocks of the BUDDY platform. These actions are the steps that BUDDY executes in a pipeline. Just like writing codes for a program, the user is only limited by his/her imagination.
TEST AND PREVIEW SANDBOXES
During the development of an application, there has to be an environment where this application can be tested. Sandboxes are disposable test and preview environments for running apps and websites directly from Git repositories without any need for own servers or virtual machines 3.
BUDDY, through automation, detects the content of a developer’s repository, and the decides on the right stack to run an application, without any need for configuration.
INTEGRATIONS
BUDDY does not just stop at helping you with application development, but also has partnered with market leaders to provide users with efficient support for their products. The user no longer has to worry about compatibility of his app with market leader services like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and so on, but has been guaranteed of seamless efficient functionality with these services, thanks to the partnership BUDDY has with these market leaders.
BUDDY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT PROCESS
PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CURRENT AUTOMATED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Issue of obsolete tools: In the industry, too much focus has been given to the tools, at the expense of giving the IT professionals more training and development. The fact is that as the DevOps industry advances, tools will become obsolete and require changes, hence the need for an efficient and well trained team to handle these new tools
Late Shipping: Shipping is the factor that determines how successful an application development company is. Most companies, for the need to get results faster, spend more money on making their DevOps infrastructure more advanced. This makes their DevOps system more complicated, hence leading further to late shipping.
Difficulty scaling: Large teams find it difficult to scale up their DevOps infrastructure. While trying to scale up, some crucial development automation metrics are affected, which need to be taken care of.
THE BUDDY SOLUTION
- The DevOps Marketplace
The DevOps Marketplace in BUDDY is like the Google Play of Android. It is a place where third party developers submit their actions for people to access, either for free or paid. Apart from these, BUDDY provides 80 built-in-actions for the market place.
When developers submit solutions to the DevOps market place, the Buddy platform helps them make profit by charging for these solutions. Also, the developers are allowed to publish plugins for free.
Development of the Blockchain community
To support the development of the blockchain community, developers would make their solutions available and free for usage by non-commercial open source projects, hence tremendously advancing the development of the whole blockchain process.
In order to support the development and submission of quality content by talented developers, the marketplace will be curated to allow only quality submissions, hence giving protection to authors, and keeping copycats away.
- Private Automation GRID
Just like an electricity GRID is a connection or network of electric stations, the Private Automation GRID is a network of BUDDY instances, connected in such a way as to facilitate auto-discovery and replication capabilities, with the aim of creating high availability auto-scalable infrastructure for development and deployment automation.
Since it is a private Automation GRID, the developer has the choice of running the BUDDY instances on their own physical local structures, or on a private cloud, or IaaS.
Private Automation GRID Increases Trust Levels
We had stated that one of the hindrances to developers from entering the blockchain development industry is trust. With the private automation GRID, BUDDY decentralization happens on a trusted infrastructure, where the user is in full control of his trusted data, making reliability issues and security concerns taken care of.
- Shared Automation GRID
In contrast to the Private Automation Grid, some developers don’t have security as their priority, rather they run high intensity automation tasks that require a lot of resources to handle them. Since security is not the focus here, a Shared Automation GRID serve the purpose perfectly.
Shared Automation GRID Is Highly Economical
The shared automation GRID helps the developer to save cost, since the developer only pays the supplier BUDDY tokens when a task is completed. So if the system is not being used, the developer does not pay. It is more like a pay-as-you-use service.
BUDDY AND SWITCHING TO BLOCKCHAIN APPS
THE PROBLEM
A lot of web developers have benefitted from the buddy platform in past years, and have no doubt of the ability of the platform to perform. But when blockchain becomes added to the equation, they become uncomfortable, including the experienced off-chain developers too. This discomfort is mainly because they lack proper knowledge of how the blockchain system functions.
In addition to this, there are a lot of myths surrounding blockchain and its operation, myths that are much more popular than the truths themselves.
Also, knowing full well that blockchain has to do with millions and billions of dollars in cryptocurrency, if a proper working knowledge of the blockchain system is lacking, bugs and flaws will be imminent in dapps and smart contracts, flaws bad actors will gladly take advantage of, and hence can lead to loss of cryptocurrency funds.
We must commend projects such as Truffle, Lisk, which are geared towards making available tools, mature enough to assist with blockchain- specific development tasks, and also help in building trust between project sponsors and their developers.
But these efforts have been “slow” when compared to the rapid changes the DevOps industry is experiencing. There is a need for better developer tools and automation scripts, as well as a trust worthy platform, to encourage and enable developers to work on blockchain projects – a task BUDDY has come into the industry to fulfil.
THE BUDDY SOLUTION
The BUDDY solution is in 3 categories:
BlockchainOps
dAppOS
Distributed BaaS
*BlockchainOps
We mentioned above that there is a need for better developer tools and automation scripts, as well as a trust worthy platform that can enable developers that are not knowledgeable of the blockchain system, to enable them enter the blockchain development industry. BUDDY is a platform that satisfies this need.
Because BUDDY has been in the system for quite some time now, with a history of testimonials from satisfied developers, they have proven to be trust worthy. Also, developers don’t need to go study books and books on the topic of blockchain, because the BUDDY service is one that consists of ready-to-go actions, which can be easily picked and placed where desired in the designing of automation pipelines.
To give a little illustration, I will show a snapshot to illustrate what I mean by ready-to-go actions mean. The snapshot will show both the front-end nd an interpretation of it.
The snapshot above is a representation of one of the numerous front-end actions that is visible to the developer. With respect to this example, if the developer is interested in building and testing the front-end application, all he/she has to do is to select the ‘ON’ option.
There is no need for any fresh building and testing. Just by the selection of an option, the job will be done.
That option builds and tests the front-end application with an npm test. This is as easy as it can get. All you need is to know how to select an option, and BUDDY does the rest for you.
dAppOS
In brief terms, dAppsOS are ready-to-use development environments, where applications are being developed. It’s more like a container where blockchain-based applications can be worked on and tested. Instead of developing applications and then bringing them into the BUDDY platform, the BUDDY platform provides an environment where applications can be built and tested.
dAppsOS has a lot of benefits, some include:
- Ease of extension:
dAppsOS can be easily extended through the help of additional services such as MYSQL, Redis, and Mongo as shown in the image above. This increases the ease at which development stacks can be extended, making the development process more flexible and open to greater productivity.
- Cloud services:
dAppOS can be run on Buddy’s cloud service, such that wherever the developer is, he/she can continue to work on the application, taking development beyond the four walls of the office. This means that the developer no longer has to worry about having local physical structures on ground, creating a virtual office in the cloud.
- Enhances blockchain education:
dAppsOS make blockchain development education easier. It does this by saving developers the stress of installing and configuring stacks from scratch, hence allowing them to focus on more productive activities like training and enhancements.
- Template Universe:
Template Universe is a feature that dAppsOS enable BUDDY to make available. It is a market place for Sandbox and dAppsOS templates made by third party developers. Just like you have WordPress as a website with already made templates, the template universe saves the stress and time of creating templates from scratch, by providing ready-to-use templates that don’t need to be installed or setup.
DISTRIBUTED BLOCKCHAIN-AS-A-SERVICE ( BaaS)
BUDDY gives developers the opportunity to focus on exactly what they want to create, giving them the opportunity to create new blockchains of any type with a single click.
BUDDY has the ability to fill up these blockchains with millions of blocks which in turn can be used to run tests against the BaaS.
Support for multiple blockchain technologies
BUDDY has support for multiple blockchain technologies like Ethereum, Hyperledger, Multichain, NEM, and Ripple. This gives the platform the ability to easily create multi-channel applications, hence presenting the developer with so many options before finally settling with the one to use for production.
Provision of private and shared Automation GRID
BUDDY provides the developer with the opportunity to choose between Private Automation GRID and Shared Automation GRID. With the existence of various life situations where DevOps can be applied, the developer would have to test his/her application against truly decentralized networks, and would need as much flexibility as possible in the Automation GRID used.
THE BUD TOKEN
- Platform : Ethereum (ERC20)
- PreICO Price: 1 BUD = 0.00012 ETH
- Price : 1 BUD = 0.0002 ETH
- MVP/Protoype : Available
- Accepting: ETH
- Soft cap: 8000 ETH
- Hard cap: 60000 ETH 4
USE CASE
Mr Jones runs a food chain business, where he delivers food on demand to customers, who access and pay for his services via his mobile app. This app has to be constantly updated with the current food demands of clients, regularly checked for bugs, and also updated with latest improvements in the blockchain payment processes.
Instead of bothering about the running of this app, Mr Jones can run his app on the BUDDY blockchain platform, and also receive payments in the form of BUDDY tokens, hence enabling him focus on other important stuffs like creative ideas for running his business and expanding his food chain further.
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