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To stay relevant in the business world, great dexterity and expertise is required by companies and brands. The market already is a highly competitive one and only the smart stay ahead of the competition.

How far a company moves and progresses is highly dependent on their IT knowledge. Quite a lot of companies make use of obsolete tools that cannot skyrocket their development desires.

The extensive work done by companies requires tools that will make for an efficient and faster productivity, and to offer high end services to customers, the place of (DevOps) is highly significant. DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, and more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives. It ultimately brings about great efficiency.

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Due to the drive and desire to offer top notch and high end services to customers, companies invest heavily in their build infrastructure. As a result, their enterprise DevOps infrastructure is complex, costly and requires 24/7 maintenance But this is not where the business value is. It’s in shipping—not configuring or maintaining.

There is also the challenge of parallelism. To speed up delivery times and eliminate unnecessary queues, organizations want to do as much as possible simultaneously. Not only run multiple pipelines at once, but also execute builds and actions within pipelines at the same time. This requires intensive effort planning and configuring. This is another pressure on the infrastructure, as it requires proper isolation.

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GENERAL PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT AUTOMATION AND CHALLENGES OF TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS

DIFFICULT SCALING

Some large teams encounter scalability issues, these teams use automation as a key differentiator and value driver and at a long run find it difficult to scale up their devOps infrastructure

OBSOLETE TOOLS

For progress to occur, constant change in solutions is paramount, dynamism exists in the solutions that exists therein, it is expedient that they should be replaced with more recent ones for progress to continue

LACK OF SOLUTIONS FOR CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS

Solutions should be decentralized to every team involved in the process, it can be quite damaging to organizational performance and culture as well as clashes in attitudes.

OTHERS INCLUDE:

Mentality and culture
Legacy and infrastructure
App complexity
Integration of tools
Neglecting test automation
No DevOps plan
Lack of training

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To set companies free from the chore of maintaining DeVOps infrastructure and also from many scalablity problems seen, a framework that would eliminate queues, execute tasks is needed to solve these problems.

With those problems in mind, I introduce to you the solution and future---BUDDY

Buddy is a blockchain technology that is bringing revolution to Automatic application development operations.

Buddy will through its amazing features make the Automation GRID and DevOps market place decentralized. It is aiming to change the way developers test, build and deploy their Apps

Using Buddy will make building Apps scalable and would solve the scalablility issues encountered by developers and users

Taking clue from their vision, they will become the backbone for talented people in building various applications and services automatically.

Every developer has been faced with the complexity and difficulty of tasking tools, manual tasks integration. But, Buddy will lighten the burden of developers by unpacking all tasks that can be automated, developers can with time be more creative, while needing lesser time to finish up a job.

Buddy's platform is entering the application automation industry which has a considerable market share, currently worth $ 110 billion. In 2017 to 2022, the number of application development and software deployment demand is predicted to experience incentive growth. The industry is projected to be worth $ 346 billion by 2022.
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HOW BUDDY AIMS AT ACHIEVING DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT PROCESSES

Buddy in their mission to revolutionalize the automated application process has outline three processes it will use in achieving this

DevOps MARKETPLACE

There are over 80 carefully crafted automation actions that will help the development and deployment of softwares. These actions have been further arranged into pipelines that will make building, testing and deployment a very simple and easy task.

The DevOps marketplace is like an online market where everyone could submit their actions just as with Android apps in Google Play free or paid, which can be free or paid. Developers can have their actions submitted to the DevOps marketplace and they can earn cool cash.

The actions when found to be helpful could get rewarded through BUD tokens. In essence, monetizing your action is very possible on the Buddy platform

Buddy ensures that developers create open source projects that also can allow others use them. Over time, open source projects have impacted greatly to the growth of blockchain technologies.

Since Buddy allows for third party developers, a combination of ideas and developments will ensure a rapid growth of the technology.

No man is an island of knowledge, just as iron sharpeneth iron, third party will through their actions improve the BUDDY platform while synergistically with Buddy meet the needs of Users

Third-party Actions from The DevOps Marketplace

The DevOps marketplace is highly scrutinized in order to get quality. In that regard, the market is usually curated to ensure that only quality codes are submitted.

Plagiarism is avoided also through the curation process as quality is paramount

SECURIFY

Securify is a free service provided by Software Reliability Lab. It allows automated analysis of any Ethereum contract for critical security vulnerabilities and insecure coding through a website.

This will also help to ensure quality of codes, and reduce shipment time by eliminating unnecessary code rewrites that, when done late, take much more time and require additional testing.

Buddy created a sophisticated servuce called CHAINSECURIFY that will intermittently allow users to run a paid chain security audit

PRIVATE AUTOMATION GRID

In this feature, the idea is for the development or creation of instances that will use auto-discovery and replication capabilities. The auto-discovery and replication capabilities will make for the availability of an automated but yet scalable infrastructure basically for development and deployment

Users are afforded the opportunity to choose among private cloud, IaaS to run Buddy instances.
Instances not in use are ended in order to keep up with the load of the system. This process is achieved by the integrations with IaaS providers such as Google cloud and other Buddy's GRIDS.

Auto-scaling is possible on the Buddy platform and is starts at the first two instances, they create master-master replication to achieve a high availability system

SHARED AUTOMATION GRID

Shared automated grid allows for tasks requiring lots of resources to be carried out by users who do not have all the resources they need. Highly resource intensive tasks are ensured by this feature. Just as the name implies, a shared instance is done which evenly distributes tasks among capable users.

Users operating this feature usually meet some requirements before they are allowed to access this feature or be a part of the platform.

Similarities exists between the Private Automation grid and Shared Automation Grid, while the former basically deploys software, the latter can be used to evenly assign tasks and also used to test soft wares

Many Buddy users run thousands of tests such as integration, end-to-end, acceptance through the Shared automation GRID.

Buddy also makes use of the P2P network ultimately moderated by the Buddy’s DAO. In this instance, peers can report their address to the organization and a stream line process is ran to fetch lists of peers.

In cases where a peer becomes broken, nodes can report to buddy and this might be connected to abuse or no connection

AMAZING ADVANTAGES OF Buddy OVER SUPER COMPUTERS

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AUTOMATION DESIGN

The structural design of Buddy allows for the even distribution of tasks requiring lots of resources to others through the shared automation grid. In contrast to other platforms, buddy can effectively manage small resources while others take up huge amount of resources before completing tasks. The processes are automated and efficient in its equipment use

The design is also very scalable as it allows users run hundreds of tasks daily and it’s been built to run them repeatedly without no interaction

CONTROL

One amazing advantage of the Buddy platform is the control they give to users.

Some users, hackers would always try to snoop around other users work and property. No one would want someone else accessing their network or task. In that regard, Buddy puts users in full control, allowing them set up their own private Automation Grids.

This puts Buddy high in the pecks. Integrity is highly assured and Apps and source codes are not compromised. It stays within the private network of each user

FIXED AND LOCAL RESOURCES

Most automated processes require so much resources to compute power and also in storage. Super computers fail to work in cases where they cannot get the required amount of resources and this becomes a problem.

Buddy is designed in such a way that they can be able to function seamlessly without constructed pitfalls experienced by super computers

USER EXPERIENCE

An exciting user experience user experience is felt when navigating through BUDDY platform

The user interface makes access, use and function incredibly easy. But super computers are extremely complicated and require building wrappers around them so as to incorporate certain workflows

NO OVERHEAD AND NO FEES

Since the private Automation Grid is being owned by a user, tasks can be executed off-chain with no token fees and this saves cost for users who pay heavily while using some super computers

The shared Automation Grid uses p2p and buddy for peer discovery, while keeping the main communication simply direct, this makes for no torrent for both loading and offloading of data

NO TIME WASTAGE

Buddy operates on an automated process and since this is so, time wasted in manual processes are forgone and a time is resultantly saved.

BUDDY FOR BLOCKCHAIN Apps

The blockchain in recent times have encountered some challenges ranging from theft, difficulty in smart contracts development and many others.

In cases where flaws and bugs are discovered by bad actors, exploitations and theft could be the effect, where huge amount of money and resources can be lost

Now, in the case of smart contracts, many developers still find it difficult understanding some components of the blockchain which includes EVM, solidity, Geth and dApps

The problem of tools have also been encountered, where the necessary tools needed to fully execute tasks are not present either due to unavailability or no technical knowledge

Buddy is seeking to solve some of the problems seen in the blockchain. Through the incorporation of certain features, the blockchain will be ultimately be freed from its shortfalls

BLOCKCHAINOPS

With the use of buddy, everything is automated. The automated process makes it easy for projects to be executed. Developers can now easily design automation pipelines with ready-to-go actions.
BlockchainOps already has garnered the support of EOS and with time will incorporate ones like NEM, ETH AND NEO

dAppOs

dAppOs are like environments that provides a platform for the development of Apps. Their function is not limited just to App development, they can also be used in the feedback processes

> Every dAppOs can work in different ways: as a standalone environment for development, for testing & previews or can be assigned to a branch and updated on every push for collaboration & feedback.

dAppOs can run on Buddy's Cloud so users can work on their projects from anywhere, office or home. Thanks to Buddy Enterprise, the onpremises version of the platform, users can run dAppOS on their private network and experience near-local performance.

dAppOs has an offline feature that allows it run on Buddy’s cloud, which can allow users work on projects no matter where they are.

The premium version can allow running on a private network and allow users experience near-local performance

Some uses include:

They can also be used as training tools for smart contracts and DApps.
dAppOs can be used as an environment for testing and preview dApps

dAppOs Swarms

The Buddy platform through the shared Automation Grid makes it possible to spin thousands of dAppsOS all over the world

DAppOS swarms only exist during the time required to execute tasks such as testing P2p features, messaging between nodes.

The DAppOS swarms also brings about cost reduction

DISTRIBUTED BAAS (BLOCKCHAIN-AS-A-SERVICE)

Users can easily create a new blockchain or solution of any supported type with a single click.

This feature makes it quite easy to deploy a good number of blockchain nodes per Buddy instance for multiple and cross chain Apps

In essence, the Distributed BaaS allow for quick design, test and deployment of solutions.
It supports Ethereum, HyperLedger, Multichain, Ripple and NEM.

Other solutions present on the Buddy platform includes

AUTOMATIC PIPELINES

In this feature, developers application are automated and deployed with 70+ ready-to-use steps

SANDBOXES β

They are full-stack previews & test environments that work as instant application previews for every code branch.

AUTOMATION GRID

It is an automatic scalable network which can be private or shared infrastructure for running an infinite number of pipelines, blockchain nodes or sandboxes

BUD TOKENS

The token used in Buddy is known as BUD token, it is a powerful tool that creates a decentralized economy in Buddy.

It is a utility token that is based on Ethereum (ERC20). The BUD token unites developers, experts and users as well.

The token is truly known for its proficiency as it can create powerful positive feedback loops that can disturb the market.

Some of the objectives of the tokens include

Since it is a utility token, it is aimed at providing true and powerful uility
Ensuring Security as well as Transparency for the ecosystem
Enhancement of the platform with the network ownership effect
finally, to stand as a source of governance

USE CASE 1

Mr Sinclair is software developer for a company. He had challenges meeting up with the company’s objectives, this was basically because of obsolete tools at his disposal.

A friend Mr Kay introduces him to # BUDDY, within few months of use and adoption, the company’s productivity experienced a geometrical progression.

He was also able to market the company on DevOps market place and made huge rewards via the BUD tokens

USE CASE 2

Mr Chinonso has always been known as a badass developer, but he had a flaw---He did not completely understand some smart contract processes on the blockchain.

He had a knowledge gap that needed to be filled in order to still maintain his boilerplate integrity. He stumbled on # BUDDY and with # BUDDY, he can now automate many actions both in smart contract development and App deployment

CONCLUSION

From all indications, the blockchain technology is the biggest winner, this is because the automated blockchain technology will attract more developers

This will also result in a corresponding increase in open source projects, and like I pointed out earlier, the open source
projects are manure to the blockchain, they usually bring rapid growth and development of blockchains

Buddy brought automation development and deployment for blockchain based projects through BlockchainOps, dAppOs, and Distributed BaaS.

Buddy also takes off some laod from developers while allowing them focus on more creative and innovative ideas, it’s a win win situation for all

The ease and simplicity it brings ensures that users have a smooth navigation process while using the technology, so many bloated and difficult user-interface exists with super computers and enough frustration has already been seen. So it’s heart warming seeing the simplicity the Buddy platform is bringing