The Buddy that Every Software Professional Needs

Thomas Alva Edison, The great American inventor said that "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration"
This statement could not me more true then in the case of the life of a software developer.

This statement holds quite true in the life of a software developer and his team who may have a great idea but they have to toil relentlessly towards making it come true. Often they have to devote a substantial part of their work time performing tasks which though do not contribute to the project or the solution they are developing to become yet are necessary to keep the project going.
For all those hard working souls in the software industry who often dream of automating their tasks so that they can contribute their creatives energies to make the project better there is good news as Buddy is here.

Buddy is ...

A Decentralized Development Automation platform
With this the application development can be put on auto pilot.
Built in App Scalability: Often as the project goes forward the business needs change and there may be a need to scale the apps.
Rather than having to start from scratch or making major changes to the design architecture Buddy lets you meet and resolve the scalability issue with ease

To begin with Buddy is not a project that is still on the drawing board. It is fully functional and ready to be used. With 7000 developers already using it it awaits more users to join it and make the most of the resources that it has to offer.

Let us see what Buddy has to offer
-DevOps MArketplace A place which is a marketplace very similar to an app store where developers can choose from the free as well as paid automation offerings.
Developers who have some scripts and plugins to see can do so with ease.
Even third party developers can access and offer their code.
A curation system would ensure their the rightful developers get paid and protected from plagiarism. The quality of code would be checked before code is put on the market place.

-Automation Pipelines
With over 70 ready to use scripts you can jump start your project in no time.
-Sandbox Environment
Every developer faces instances when someone in the team messes with the code or tool setting rendering the platform unusable or needing some fixing or re installation. With a sandox in place you and your team can test the codes without the fear or risk of damaging the infrastructure.
-Automation GRID
Buddy's main task is to automate the jobs for the developers and for this it lets you run 2 kinds of Automation GRIDS
-The Private Automation GRID and
-The Shared Automation GRID

The Private Automation GRID

Launch a Buddy instance and you have a Private Automation GRID at your disposal. You can use the main part of the project onto the Private Automation GRID and the buddy automation
With this feature you can run as many instances and automation pipelines as you require and the resources permit.
Once you run out of resources you can always look to run shared Automation Grids
The shared Automation Grids are similar to the private Automation GRID except other nodes share their resources to facilitate the Buddy instance.

The Shared Automation GRID can run in sync with the Private Automation GRID

This functionality helps balance load between the the Private Automation GRID and the Shared Automation GRID.

BlockchainOps

Blockchains are the most popular fields of development and offer a lot of opportunities for developers . There is a steep shortage of qualified developers as this is a new technology and a different set of tools are required.
BlockchainOps helps the process by providing its automation pipelines to help developers speed up the process and capatilize upon the opportunities.

Distributed BaaS

BaaS or mBaaS has become an integral part of mobile development. It is used extensively to integrate the apps with backend clouds, use push notifications and implementing social media integration.
This helps reduce costs as well as make the deployment fast and easy.

At the core of the Buddy system is the Compute Unit.

A compute unit can be looked as basic hardware unit that constitutes a block. Multiple blocks work in sync to make up and run the Buddy system
A compute unit specifications are as follows.

• 2 vCPUs
• 2GB RAM and
• 4 GB SSD Storage

BUD The Money Tokens

Anyone who needs to pay or needs to get paid does so using the BUD token currency.

Typical instances which require a payment are when
-A Developer pays for Automation tools or needs to run project on the Automation Grid

• Developer sells an app on the DevOps marketplace
• Anyone who rents his compute units to the Buddy work space.

Lets take Buddy for a Spin

This is the part that I had been waiting for so long as Buddy is already functional and with so many projects already running on it it is ready to be tested here

My first impressions.

It is very easy to get started with buddy.
It lets you integrate your existing project on various platforms which are
GitHub
BitBucket
Gitlab
Your Private Git server based projects.

Alternatively it also offers Buddy Git Hosting to host your projects.

Creating an account is a breeze and the moment you land onto your dash board buddy gives you the option to integrate and existing project from the various platforms.

From here you can click start an automation pipeline. The ease of use and automation is quite smooth and I am impressed with the results.

Final Thoughts about Buddy

Buddy is what was much needed by the developers of the software professionals. It helps them move from a rigid and not productive environment to a more flexible and more result oriented process.
It save time, better deploys resources and helps the industry gear up towards moving from a $110 billion software automation and development industry to a $334 Billion industry by 2022.

Though currently it is compatible with EOS but soon other blockchains would come on board and this would be a big boost for the project.

More Information & Resources:

• Buddy Website
• Buddy WhitePaper
• Buddy OnePager
• Buddy Token Sale
• Buddy YouTube
• Buddy BitcoinTalk
• Buddy Facebook
• Buddy Telegram
• Buddy Linkedin
• Buddy Twitter
• Buddy Medium
• Buddy Github

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