Buddy; Making Application Development Easy

THE PROBLEM

The major problem faced by many organizations today is that even though there are many DevOps service providers, there are complexities in adopting them. DevOps are the processes that companies have to undertake in order to run software smoothly. DevOps also helps to get quick feedback from the clients. Inorder to apply DevOps, companies need to make some changes in their products and in their organizational structure for which a certain amount of research is required and most companies are not willing to take the risk posed to their products.

THE SOLUTION

Buddy has come up with a solution, where they are providing application development and deployment process where DevOps adoption would be easy

Decentralized Development Automation Platform

Brief History of Buddy

The team was founded in 2007 while bootstrapping Springloops, a popular Subversion hosting platform with deployment tools for web developers. The earned know-how, experience and new technology trends eventually led us to inventing Buddy.

• Established in 2015 with a mission to vertically apply automation into the application development process, so that developers can focus on creative challenges, not waste time on repetitive tasks
• Released in 2016 to a huge positive response from the community
• Quickly became a partner of Google, Github, Microsoft and other key players in its quest to help developers deliver faster & better-quality products
• Since 2017, the team, excited by the traction, has been delivering updates and improvements on a fast track of weekly releases.

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Buddy puts application development on autopilot and makes building apps scalable, creating a decentralized DevOps Marketplace and Automation GRID that challenges how today’s developers build, test & deploy their apps.

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Buddy's vision is to become the backbone on which talented people can build great apps and services. Their goal is to take the load off of millions of developers by offloading everything that can be automated. They are aiming to build a decentralized development automation platform which i would say could be next 'big thing'. They are aiming to do this because they see this industry blowing up in the next few years

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Buddy runs apps in sandboxes - disposable environments - for dev, staging, QA and clients previews and it sure delivers a working website for every branch.
Buddy is also a winning development automation platform that serves a rapidly growing market. It's currently valued at 110 billion dollars and estimated to become 345 billion dollars by 2022.
As I got into this great project while researching, i was able to find a video on their official youtube channel explaining and showing what Buddy does.

Here are some points i deduced from the video since the video does not have an audio

• Buddy makes updating web projects fast and easy
• You can use it to update apps and websites
• You can run builds, tests and deployments with code from GitHub and Bitbucket
• Automatic deliveries helps developers save time and resources
• They built it to make project iteration a breeze so that one can deliver better websites and software

So overall, i would say Buddy is an amazing platform that takes all the hard work from developing apps and website

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

I personally don't know how hard it is to partner with heavyweights like the ones i listed below, but its worth noting on their resume. These partnerships are verified.
They are partnering with some companies like GitHub, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Azure, Docker store and Aws marketplace(Amazon)

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Watch this short animation i personally made on how to integrate Buddy with GitHub

SOME REVIEWS BY DEVELOPERS

Buddy has a platform that has up to 7000 daily developers across more than 120 countries. They are really loved by developers around the world. If you visit the site, you would see how much developers love them while reviewing Buddy. I personally didn't know Buddy was also fast during transfers until i read this review.

Running up an environment to run tests is quicker maybe by a few minutes. File transfer is definitely the winner. It used to take 50 minutes on Codeship, but on Buddy it takes 6-7 minutes to do the same transfer and that's doing all files

David Mcgregor (

Energoconsulting

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So this is really impressive.

BUILT ON TRUST

Many respected, well known and reputable brands are already using Buddy to automate their app development operations

Reputable Brands	Reputable Brands	Reputable Brands	Reputable Brands
Inc.	CGI	Docplanner	Futo
Amaro	Anki	Vocus	CURAYTOR
KaBuM	HICKIES	Flow	Planday
Loud&Clear	Electric Pulp	baremetrics	Purple
invitation homes	mangoo	Yoco	Altaro

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT SOFTWARE

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Their current market size like i mentioned earlier is $110B, but in mere four years, its going to triple in size. So they want to be on top of that doing things ahead of other people.

PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES IN THE APP DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY

They are aiming on facing some of the biggest challenges and problems out there as listed below

• Mentality and Culture
• Legacy Infrastructure
• App Complexity
• Integration of Tools
• Neglecting Test Automation
• No DevOps Plan
• Lack of Training
• Too Many Tools
• Difficult scaling
• Obselete Tools
• No solutions for cross-functional teams

THEIR SOLUTION

From the site, they have a few things they have already delivered on. and they have other things they are going to do very soon

Delivered/Working product

• Automation Pipelines
  Automate application development and deployment with 70+ ready-to-use steps
• Sandboxes
  Full-stack previews & test environments that work as automated instant application previews for every code branch
• Integrations
  Rich pallet of dedicated integrations provides comprehensive support for many stacks

Token Sale Goals, more like the key solutions

• DevOps Marketplace
  The DevOps Marketplace is an app store which has been created by developers for developers, providing solutions which can aid in automation of application development
• Automation GRID
  The Automation GRID is a decentralized infrastructure that allows an infinite number of automation tasks to be run simultaneously for the purposes of app development
• BlockchainOps
  The Blockchain Ops feature of the Buddy platform enables the advancement of automation bots, that can build smarter, faster, and better Blockchain apps
  

USE CASE

Frank is frustrated with manual development of software, he is also frustrated with manual testing of software, he is also frustrated with manual deploying of software, he began looking for a solution and on his journey he met Buddy and found out about Buddy's Automated GRID, DevOps Marketplace and BlockchainOps. He knew this was the solution to his previous frustration and problems. Everything gets faster smarter and better. He has joined over 7000 daily developers and was never frustrated again. He then smiles and says;
''I love you Buddy''

THE BUD TOKEN

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So now that we have understood more about Buddy's vision and solutions to existing problems the organizations face, lets take a look at the cryptocurrency associated with the Buddy platform.
The token is known as The BUD Token and its an ethereum based utility token.
Here are some use cases of the BUD token.

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As you can see from the use cases, the token looks to be well designed and really helps to unite developers and experts in order to create better apps.

TOKEN VALUE

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I really see these project going far. They have a lot of uses for this token, its not like the random companies we know that will create a token and it doesn't have a use, more like just a share of the company.
Buddy has a lot of use cases for their token

ROAD MAP

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Before i would like participate in a project, i would like to see where the project will be in months or years to come.
Buddy is a company that has been around for quite sometime. Their Buddy beta was launched in 2016 in quarter 3, and their working product that has been been adopted by huge companies ever since. They wanted to create more, they wanted to offer more on their platform, so they integrated blockchain technology into their existing technology and that's why they are jumping into crypto space
I believe Buddy's goals are achievable. This is one of the most amazing road maps i have ever seen. So I am so excited with their developments.

USE OF FUNDS

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So what kind of reviews has the Buddy platform received so far

The prestigious ICO bench website gave it a score of 4.7 out of 5. ICOMarks, another well known coin offering review site gave Buddy a score of 9.6 out of 10.
Buddy is already pre-approved on two exchanges known as HitBTC and MBAex, even though they are yet to be released. I would say that this is impressive. They are clearly doing something right

THE TEAM

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For you to have a successful project, you need a good team.
I really love the team, it's vision and the leadership, so I have no second thought that this vision and project will be a success. They all have incredible skill set when it comes to development, and another thing that stood out to me was that they have been a team since 2006 which is about 12 years now. Since they have been together for so long, I want to believe that they get their jobs done without any slacking around, they get their product out there.

GREAT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM AND COMMUNITY

This is another impressive feature of Buddy. Their social media strength is quite incredible. They have the largest community I have ever seen in crypto space, and why I am saying this is that I noticed that their Telegram has over a 100,000 members. Telegram only allows up to a 100,000 members in each group, so of course Buddy did the honor and created a second Telegram group for those excess people.

SUMMARY

They are a decentralised development automation platform where they sell out their software, and they allow developers to create applications fast and easy, by having a market place where developers can share their ideas, share their content and even sell their content as well. They have a strong team and they have working product. They are not just saying they will do different things, they are already doing it. Their marketplace partners are Google, Amazon marketplace, GitHub, Azure, docker store, and they have a handful of customers utilizing their software already. This is indeed mind blowing if i must say.

For more info you can visit

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

TWITTER LINK

https://twitter.com/ChukwuGeorge12/status/1024407979284684800

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