BUDDY – DECENTRALIZING DevOps MARKETPLACE

Overview
Buddy is a decentralized development automation platform where they are putting the application development on autopilot. They make building apps scalable, decentralized DevOps marketplace and automation grid where today’s developers can build, test and establish their apps.
A platform where they have lightened the burden of the developers to take advantage of the time available to become more creative and no longer need to do the same work repeatedly.

Problem
The main problem is DevOps which is an enterprise software development system where many organizations face challenges to fully adopt the benefits of DevOps process. The problems are app complexity which is hard to adopt without any knowledge of that by organizations. No prior plans for the DevOps process which leads to lack of training under the organizations. Budget restrictions is also one of the main constrain for them. There are in thousands of tools for DevOps is available today where training required, and lack of management or executive support is there.

Solution
Buddy is come up with the solution by providing entire application development and deployment process where to make DevOps adoption easy, transparent and effortless. They solve the problems by these following features.

1. Automation Pipelines – A pipeline system where developers can automate their applications development and deployment with 70+ ready to use steps.
2. Sandboxes – It is providing full test & preview environment for running apps and websites directly from Git repositories without any need for own servers or virtual machines. Also providing previews on every code branch.
3. Automation Grid – This is automatic process with scalable, private or shared infrastructure for running an infinite number of pipelines, sandboxes & blockchain nodes.
4. Devops Marketplace – An open platform for developers and experts to build their own solutions, pluggable into the Automation Pipelines.

The Team
Simon Szczepankowski – CEO, Product Manager & Co-Founder – SaaS entrepreneur with over 15 years’ experience in IT. Previously bootstrapped springloops.com, a Subversion hosting service for web developers that attracted > 5000 paying customers from 120 countries. Managed IT projects for the Dutch Air Force, KLM, Mercedes Benz NL, Ford NL and Merck PL divisions.
Raphael Sztwiorok – CTO, Project Manager & Co-Founder – Managed large GIS & Big Data projects for the Polish Army & Norwegian Defence Procurement Division via Techmex SA. Acted as Senior IT manager in the Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program. Senior Scrum Master, Docker & microservices expert.
Martin Kudla – Software Architect & Co-Founder – 20+ years’ experience in IT. Architect of flight and hotel booking platform for weg.de & price comparison engine for idealo.de, the 46th largest German website.

Token Matrix
Token – BUD
Total Token – 300 Million BUD
Price of BUD Token – 0.0002 ETH
Soft Cap – $5M USD
Hard Cap – $35.8M USD
Private Sale – 15th June to 15th July 2018
Pre-Sale – 23rd to 30th July 2018
Crowd Sale – Start 1st August 2018

Social Media Reach
Facebook – 14650+ Followers – https://www.facebook.com/gitbuddy/
Twitter – 15.7k+ Followers – https://twitter.com/buddygit
Telegram – 15080+ Members – https://t.me/buddytoken

Verdict
The Roadmap where milestones is provided till 2019. The working product is available.
The Website and Whitepaper is explained very much in detail where you can find detailed information about this project. Whitepaper is a bit of technical explanation.
The Social Media hype is strong, and they are very much active on Telegram Group.
There are 16 core members in a leadership team where they have experience in software tech and IT sector. They also have 15+ years of experience in IT sector but they all are lacking in blockchain experience. There are 12 ICO experts as an advisor for this project where they have number of experience in IT, Software and blockchain technology. They are also holding positions like CEO, CTO, CO-Founder of many leading companies.
They have partnered with many cloud leaders like GitHub, Google Cloud, Azure and AWS Marketplace.

Website – https://token.buddy.works/
Whitepaper – https://files.buddy.works/ico/BuddyWhitepaper.pdf
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