As we celebrate and embrace global digitalization of things which we call the Internet of Things (IOT) which with the use of an internet enabled device we can complete a wide range of tasks just a click away.
This same excitement cannot be said for app developers as they are faced with several challenges which includes the challenge of implementing automation despite its revolutionary potential. Despite the fact that application automation (DevOps) is a huge boost to developing organization, its is quite difficult to adopt. It it expensive to singlehandedly purchase various tech, stacks and workflow which makes it difficult for a single person to to provide the seamless automation to cover all the popular programming languages, frameworks and services including blockchain tech.
The cost and complexities it takes to run builds and tests by organization on a daily basis takes time and is combersome.
Also in order to speed up delivery time and eliminate unnecessary queue, organizations run multiple pipelines at once. This process takes time, efforts and intensive planning and configuration.

Buddy

Buddy comes with a solution for developers that will enable them build world class apps and services.

You'd ask how is this done?.

By creating a platform that takes away the burden from developers that can be automated allowing them back the time to be more creative while creating/developing apps.
Buddy creates over 80 detailed automation actions that assists users to deploy and developers to create. This automated actions are arranged into pipelines in a way that it makes building testing and deployment faster. With just a click developers can complete complex applications and multi-cloud software.
The aims of buddy is basically to cut down stress that developing organizations tends to go through in app generation and creation.

In proffering a solution buddy highlight four major aspects that they will focus on which are.

• in area of Automation
• Marketplace BlockchainOps
• Private automation GRIDshared
• Automation GRID

Using blockchainOps

Buddy aims at also pioneering development automation of blockchain- based projects. Developers can use the blockchain tech service in designing automation pipelines that instantly addresses the problems of compilation, testing and DApps monitoring. This helps simplify the rigorous processes of apps development and all... With room to make adjustments when necessary.
BlockchainOps helps improve security by test solidity contracts.
Currently the blockchainOps supports EOS and the team is currently working on adding others like ETH, NEO, ICX, TRX, NEM etc. With this introduction Buddy enables efficiency across all brockchains.
BlockchainOps also helps in easing the tasks faced developers and also encourages new users to come in and increases adoption in the long run.

Automation Marketplace

This as the name implies is a market place for developers just like the proverbial "eBay " for developers. Its a platform where developers can go and purchase automation scripts which comes in free and premium mode. This scripts are thereby used by the developers to accomplish specific tasks based of the script specification. And just like an online market place developers also have the option of putting up their own scripts and earn from it too. This is made possible by the BUD tokens which incentivizes an economy for developers to purchase and sell automation scripts.

Advantages of the Automation market place

In creating this market place it insures the functionality and growth of the Buddy ecosystem because

• it gives an opportunity for developers to constantly improve in creation and innovation of new apps.

• It creates a competitive atmosphere that challenges and brings out the best in developers as it gives rooms for improved and updated scripts

• It encourages Third party options

• There are over 80 pipeline options for the developer to choose from. Unlimited options to produce unlimited results

• Using securify buddy creates a more secure environment for developers

• Third party developers will be allowed the opportunity of charging and marking money from solutions offered and also allowing them the liberty of putting up plugins for free using the market place.

Private Automated GRID

This is a network GRID of buddy instances that will aid automatic-discovery and replication which in turn makes the network more scalable to developers and also help users and developers automate the infrastructure for easy development and deployment.

Shared Automation GRID

A Shared Automation GRID is similar to a Private Automation GRID, except that it is more open as it allows others on the Buddy network to run some of the instances to off-load resource intensive tasks.

The Private and Shared Automation GRID can be integrated to work with one another.

The major and simple illustration to this is that a private GRID is used to create and deploy a software to the buddy network but in other to prove the credibility of the software deployed the Shared GRID is used to test and prove its credibility by running tests on the software. This tests are run on the main software and can be run at once using different buddy instances.

Conclusion

Buddy creates an environment of ease for the user and developers as it helps improve accessibility to scripts that were expensive and highly cumbersome to be used by a single user before. Buddy presents developers with a market platform that allows and gives them full access to these tools on a platter. Also through the blockchainOps secures the developers and users thereby increasing the trustworthiness of the blockchain network and increasing mass aboption of the network.

With Buddy, developers can test the smart contracts. Given that many of these applications are used to transfer value, testing to ensure stability, security and integrity is an extremely important process that cannot be overlooked.

Instead of manually testing, or running numerous tests locally that take a long time, developers can rely on Buddy. Every time a developer pushes a commit to the branch,Buddy will build and test the EOSIO smart contracts. If a developer is working with a team, they can automate notifications every time any of the team members make a commit!

BUD Token & Economy

The Buddy platform already has 7,000 devs who utilize their tools for their projects every day!

The Buddy platform will use BUD tokens to create an economy for developers to make purchases from the automation market as well as utilize the Automation GRIDs.

BUD tokens will allow developers to earn from sharing their tools on the platform while users can purchase those tools using BUD tokens.

By joining the Buddyeconomy users can also act as nodes for the Automation GRID and earn from their computers being utilized to run tasks for developers!

This is my entry to the @originalworks sponsored writing contest original contest link

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