Are you into software development and operation? Thinking of developing decentralized Apps? Do you want to fast track your blockchain projects? Then look no further, Buddy is here for you!
What is Buddy?
According to their one pager info sheet and whitepaper:
Buddy is a winning development automation platform that serves over 7,000 developers every day across 120+ countries, a rapidly growing market valued to become $345 billion by 2022.
Featured customers: INC. Magazine, CGI.com, ING Bank. Partnered by industry leaders such as Docker, GitHub, Microsoft Azure and Google.
It's best for programmers and not really for non-developers. If you're planning on building a software or decentralized app, you better know how to code and use Buddy too.
IT people can save plenty of precious time and energy as Buddy actions reduces redundant processes. The working product also provides tools for easier testing which allows faster deployment of projects. š
ā¦ Buddy History
In 2007, a team was formed and worked closely together on Springloops. The site provides all the tools required for web development and deployment. Everything they learned from it led them to create Buddy.
In 2015, Buddy was established to help developers "vertically apply automation into the application development process," allowing programmers to focus more on the design process and finishings. It is still part of Springloops as you can clearly see Buddy on the homepage and its bottom links.
Buddy was released in 2016 and have quickly been able to partner with several major tech companies like Google, Github, Microsoft, and more. The platform provides automated solutions to developer problems by solving the issues from the ground level so developers will be assured of a sterling creation upon finalization. By 2017 they have been on the fast track with weekly deliveries of updates and improvements.
In short, Buddy is already an existing platform that developers have successfully been using on various working projects. It offers what I will call "developer bundles" or what they call "actions" or "instances" that programmers need to make their work better, faster and easier. Buddy is really the developer's best friend, it is also "the foundation for the decentralized application development automation."
ā¦ The Buddy Team
Here are the amazing people behind Buddy.
ā¦ Marketplace Cloud Leader Partners
ā¦ Well Known Customers
ā¦ Some of the Integrations and Channel Partners
What Does Buddy Provide?
With the Buddy Token Sale it offers the following.
1 . Over 80 Well-crafted Automation Actions (Open Source DevOps Marketplace)
In Buddy, there are free and premium actions developers share or take advantage of. It is also going to be curated by the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). Buddy token holders will run DAO. It will protect authors and encourage quality submissions to grow the blockchain community.
Developers can sell or freely share actions they create on the Buddy Marketplace. Other programmers can then purchase or use any of them for free like we do in Google Play and Apple AppStore.
Sample usage of Buddy actions are:
ā¢ Automatically fixing a code style depending on the code style selected.
ā¢ Improve website quality or run app tests as soon as it is staged.
ā¢ Add invisible watermarks to protect images (Oh I'd like that one. š)
ā¢ App security and encryption
ā¢ Increase the quality and security of smart contracts.
2 . Network of Buddy Instances (Private Automation GRID or PAG)
A network can be formed by several Buddy actions or instances. This decentralized GRID can then be used to allow "auto-discovery and replication capabilities to create High Availability auto-scalable infrastructure for development & deployment automation."
"For example: To meet the load demand (of company networks) during the day, Buddy can utilize a user's Amazon Web Services account to replicate itself outside the private network, and kill those instances once the workday is over - automatically on-the-fly and within set constraints."
This is a secure way to run Buddy instances, privately and only within a company/corporation.
3 . Offloading of Highly Complex Automation Tasks via Shared Automation GRID (SAG)
If privacy is not an issue, one can use Buddy instances to share nodes in exchange for Buddy (BUD) tokens. A compute unit is used as a storage part of the SAG and is billed per second. This can either be a minimum of 2 virtual CPUs, 2 GB of RAM or 4 GB of SSD storage. It will only be used in performing requested tasks. Once done, the storage will be released.
How Does this Decentralized Application Development and Deployment Platform work?
"For example: A Private GRID of Buddy instances can be used to build an application and run it in a Sandbox for further testing & iterations. Then, dozens (or even hundreds) of Buddy instances from the SAG can run tests against it. In this way, the results can be provided in minutes, not hours."
Buddy has a Peer to Peer network of Buddy instances moderated and curated by its DAO. The platform will also receive reports from nodes if a peer is broken or abusive. When a peer rents a compute unit, the supplier will be given a BUD token once the task is completed.
A requester can set the maximum price they are willing to pay for. The supplier can set the number of compute units to assign and decide on its minimum price and schedule of availability. There are no overhead or token fees for using the PAG or SAG as opposed to using supercomputers. Why? Because tasks are done instantly, off-chain.
Supplier security is also assured as only the approved Marketplace actions can be run on the SAG. One can run actions separately and simultaneously too. Examples are running several pipelines, multiple actions and many tasks at the same time. These can cost anywhere from 2, 4 or 8 compute units.
The SAG is not to be used as a supercomputer though. Remember, it is a separate entity from PAG but both can work together. A SAG is not something you will need to use a large computing power for. Third parties are instead welcome to create supercomputer actions to publish on the Buddy DevOps Marketplace.
All of these are what makes Buddy great for blockchain development. Non-developers usually have no clue what programmer work is for, we just know how to complain when something doesn't work. š Normally we don't need to know, as long as any software, machine or everyday tool we use is working as easily and smoothly as possible. It makes our lives at home and at work easier too.
Developers are the "silent hardworking magicians" making sure the technology we use everyday are efficient. We are now moving into a more technologically advanced and challenging world. Having programming tools like Buddy make their work easier; in turn, it will make everyone's lives better.
Buddy on the Blockchain
Since Buddy makes programming better, it will definitely encourage more developers to work on blockchain technology. More and more decentralized Apps (dApps) are popping up left and right. Buddy can be integrated into them seamlessly and make it work like a charm. This is why Buddy is moving into the blockchain world to help programmers keep up with the times. It's the best tool to assist in the successful blockchain development activities and cooperation of everyone involved in the project.
Blockchain developer issues can be resolved by Buddy with three things: BlockchainOps, dAppOS, and Distributed Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS).
1 . "Blockchain developers can use the (Buddy BlockchainOps) service to design automation pipelines with ready-to-go actions: from compiling and tests, to deployments, custom scripts, and dApps monitoring."
Sample usage of Buddy BlockchainOps actions are:
2 . dAppOS are development environments that are onhand solutions to start projects based on the blockchain (dApps). It can be also be used as a training ground for blockchain smart contract and/or dApp projects. It has it's own third party developer marketplace too called Template Universe. dAppOS makes use of the SAG, making it cost-effective even for large-scale businesses.
3 . If you need blockchains, get BaaS on-demand from Buddy. It currently supports EOS. They are now working on Ethereum, Multichain, HyperLedger, Ripple and NEM support to make it easy to create multi-chain applications.
With all three combined, this is what the efficient Buddy workflow for dApp development looks like.
In short, Buddy makes the learning and usage of blockchain technology more attractive to developers of various applications.
Watch this Buddy review video .
What is BUD or the Buddy Token?
BUD is a utility coin based on ERC20 (Ethereum).
"It creates a community-driven, decentralized economy in Buddy, the application development automation platform made for developers by developers. It unites developers, experts and users, both SMB and enterprise, in their goal to ship applications safer, faster and of better quality."
The Buddy tokens are given to suppliers who share their compute units. It's the payment from other fellow developers who use Buddy's service within the private or shared automated network. Using Buddy actions requires more than one compute unit to run several actions at the same time so it is definitely a good idea to invest in BUD.
ā¦ BUD Token Value
ā¦ BUD Initial Coin Offering details
The BUD token sale starts on August 1, 2018 and ends on October 29, 2018. Afterwards no new tokens will ever be created.
ā¦ Road Map
ā¦ Token Allocation
ā¦ Use of Funds
Once the ICO is done, the accumulated funds will be used for further research and development on everything that is written here. It includes procuring the Decentralized Application Development and Deployment Platform including its features:
ā¢ Open Source DevOps Marketplace
ā¢ Private and Shared Automation GRID (PAG & SAG)
ā¢ BlockchainOps
ā¢ dAppOS
ā¢ Distributed Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS)
It will also fund the execution of it's strategy for the target audience. Students and teachers will have free access to the Buddy platform as it aims to be the go-to place of current and future programmers and blockchain developers.
Join the BUD token sale today and take advantage of the growing blockchain development industry.
More Information & Resources:
Buddy WhitePaper
Buddy OnePager
Buddy Token Sale
Buddy YouTube
Buddy BitcoinTalk
Buddy Facebook
Buddy Telegram
Buddy Linkedin
Buddy Twitter
Buddy Medium
Buddy Github