Introduction 

Any one who runs an organization or owns a company, one thing always come to mind: "how to improve there organization or how to take the company to a whole new level." 

The owner of the organization or company will always want to make sure that less energy is spent achieving set goals, and also ensuring that the team stays on schedule and focus on their core objectives. Unfortunately, in there bid of finding ways to work more efficiently, their infrastructure build become complex and expensive, since it requires 24/7 maintenance.

Statement of the problem 

As organization and companies uses internet on a daily basis, they are exposed to recent technology and application to improve their organization. Every business owner wants his products to be online and have a good App online in which they could advertise their products and give out information to the users but the problems they face are working with obsolete tools, having barriers that limit adoption of innovative tools due to complexity.

Application automation puts every organisation at an advantage but developing applications or apps is often time-consuming, tiresome, and difficult. This prevents organisation from harnessing its potentials and in-turn affects the growth of the app development industry

Test running applications before deployment can take a lot of time and resources, before set goals are achieved. These have a direct effect on timeframes, and also profit margins in the long run.

However, if this stress and long time frame in developing App is reduced, it will boost the number of Apps in the App industry market. 

Well, for App developers, today might be your lucky day because "BUDDY" is here for the rescue. 

What Is Buddy

Buddy is a decentralized platform that automate application development. A solution created by developers who understand the pain development teams face, when trying to deploy applications and services, leaving the fun and easy parts for developers. Thus, creating a decentralized DevOps marketplace, distributed BaaS, automated pipeline creation and automation grid that challenges how today’s developers build, test and deploy their Apps on the Blockchain.

Buddy has carefully designed 80 automated actions which will be useful in software development and by removing the time-consuming and redundant aspects of development, developers can focus all of their attentions to making the core products like improving the designs and use interface—hence easily fixing problems like bugs that disturbs most apps and software, especially large scale ones. These ensure that the development and deployment process is positively impacted on, ensuring that life is made easier for everyone.

Buddy have been in existence since 2015, assisting big shot companies like Google and Microsoft. Hence, it is tested and verified.

THE UNIQUE CHARACTER OF BUDDY.

There are several solutions provided by buddy with its unique character that makes life easy. These include :

DevOps Market Place 

More than 80 automation processes have been developed by Buddy, to ensure that development and deployment of software is a walk in the park. They are sorted into pipelines, and ensure that applications can be deployed in a few clicks.

The DevOps Marketplace is to BUDDY as the playstore is to google. The marketplace is open to freelance developers, who are free to create solutions that will be helpful for teams and organisations, with regards to this. Such solutions can be listed as free, while some scripts are premium. Also, developers can submit their scripts to the DevOps marketplace and they can earn cool cash. This will lead to more adoption and growth, capturing more of the mainstream market. Opening up the Automation Marketplace to third parties will ensure that Buddy will grow exponentially and through this, these developers are able to monetise their efforts, and are rewarded via BUD tokens. This is to ensure that only quality codes are submitted to the DevOps marketplace, the marketplace is curated. The curation of the DevOps marketplace also prevents plagiarism, while encouraging and providing support to developers.

Users can use securify provided by Software Reliability Lab to ensure that their codes are free from vulnerabilities. This would improve the quality of codes, and at the same time, apps would be deployed at a faster rate.

PRIVATE AUTOMATION GRID: 

The method here is to create a network of Buddy instances that will use auto-discovery and replication capabilities to create High Availability auto-scalable infrastructure for development and deployment automation.

Users also have the option to make use of their own private resources, private clouds or third party solutions such as AWS to run Buddy Instances.

At the moment that new BUDDY instances are created, their roles are automatically decided. Buddy has the ability to auto-scale; starting from the first two instances, The first create a master-master replication. This replication is to enable the creation of a high availability system. Subsequent instances will be used in running more pipelines in parallel.

Depending on the load, Buddy also has the ability to remove redundant instances on-the-go by making use of integrations with IaaS providers such as AWS, google cloud, or any other BUDDY GRIDs that are trusted and provided by BUDDY and/or its certified partners.

Shared Automation Grid:

This is almost the same as the Private Automation GRID. The shared automation GRID comes into play when a user wants to run instances of a task that require a lot of resources, but the user does not have the necessarily resources. With the shared automation Grid, the instances can be run by other nodes (users) that have the resources readily available. Nodes that run the instances in the shared automation GRID can report other nodes that are broken or dishonest, either due to technical issues or due to abuse. It should be noted however, that only actions that are accepted in the DevOps marketplace after curation are accepted in the Shared Automation Grid. 

For Blockchain-Based Projects

• BlockchainOps

Buddy's service, just like it is made available to Web developers, Buddy also implements a solution for projects based on blockchain technology, allowing in an equally simple way (with a few clicks), compiling, testing, deployment, custom script and monitoring developed dApps. Blockchain developers can take advantage of the service to easily design automation pipelines for immediate actions, starting from compilation and tests, to deployments, custom scripts, and dApps monitoring. There are different actions dedicated to the development of applications based on the blockchain. These includes: Security, Analytics, Code Review and Optimization to test, analyze, optimize and verify the contracts created with Solidity. Test makes sure apps are bug free and malwares are avoided. 

• dAppOS

Buddy introduces an environment for Blockchain-based projects like dApps. dAppOS, similarly to Sandboxes, can easily be extended with some supplementary services such as MySQL, Redis, Mongo or Elastic databases. It also reduces friction when experimenting with blockchain technology. Developers can check and monitor the performance of their projects in private networks or using Buddy's Shared Automation GRID. 

• Distributed Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS)

Users of the Buddy platform can create a blockchain in a simple way, allowing the developer to develop what they actually need and want. In this sense, they can easily create a new Blockchain of any supported type with a single click.

Through the Shared GRID, users can create unlimited number of blockchain nodes for multi or cross-chain applications to test the implementation of the blockchain that they wish to create.

Automation GRID vs. Golem and SONM

A lot might think that there are similarities Buddy Automation Grid and supercomputers like Golem and SONM base on there mode of operation but that isn’t true. This is actually the reason: 

• Automation by Design 

Pharmaceutical industry is one place supercomputers like GOLEM and SONM is mostly used because they are more concern with completing a one-time job on a large computing power needs but compared to automation grid, it is more simpler and compute each unit per second without any steps involved or application types on each job execution making it easier for users to run hundred of tasks with out any interaction. 

• Fixed and Local Resources

Base on the fact that supercomputers are designed in the way that several dozens of task needs atleast 1 GB of RAM and fast local storage to run or else it will terminate, makes it useless. This makes it difficult to design application by third party. On the other hand, Development automation tasks are often resource intensive, not only when it comes to computing power, but also RAM and disk storage. 

• Control

Buddy users are given full control to set up there  Private Automation GRIDs. In other words, source code and apps will never leave the users private network. Golem and Sonm which is mostly found in pharmaceutical industries find it difficult to use it to scale their application development & deployment automation operations. The more reason there is no 100% solution to protect intellectual property.

• User Experience 

The user interface of buddy makes it easy for users to create and run automation operations easily but with supercomputers, due to its generic nature, it requires building wrappers around them to accommodate specific workflows.   

• No Overhead and No Fees

Communications in supercomputer is controlled by P2P or Torrent leading to the lots of processes it takes in posting a job. For instance, in calculating cost, depositing money to wallets or handling arrangements. Compared to automation Grid, its an entirely different thing. The shared automation Grid makes sure the communication is direct and uses P2P and buddy for discovering of peers only.  

• Challenges

There are still lots of technicalities issues faced by supercomputers which put there project at risk and also limits several project, making it impossible to be run on such a platform. Buddy’s Shared AutomationGRID is much simpler and uses existing technologies, thereby serving existing markets needs and not creating new ones.

 

Community & Going Open-Source

“One of our main goals is to have a legacy of helping the Blockchaindevelopment community move faster. This is what we believe in. This is why we want Buddy to go open-source after the ICO has been released.Each instance of Buddy will contain the source code of Buddy inan embedded Git repository. It will be used by an existing auto-‑update mechanism to build new versions of Buddy, and updatethe ones currently running.”

 One of the major beliefs of buddy is to create a legacy by contributing in making the blockchain community move faster. The reason the team of buddy created an avenue for buddy to go open source as soon as the ICO is released. This will enable the team to develop a new version or update the software.      

BUD Token and Governance. 

Bud is a community-driven, decentralised economy in buddy and its utility token is ERC20 compactible. With the main aim of shipping applications safer, faster and of better quality, it is able to unite developers, experts and users. As a result of the rapidly growing economy, Customers are looking to scale their development automation operations.  

Objectives of this tokens include:

1. To ensure transparency and security for the system’s participants

2. To provide a true & powerful utility

3. To develop strong economic incentives

4. To enhance the platform with the network ownership effect

5. To stand as a source of governance. 

Buddy also embraces a network ownershipusing Buddy’s DAO in which token holders will be able to:

• Curate the DevOps marketplace• Whitelist nodes participating in the Shared Automation GRID

• Certify 3rd party apps on the DevOps Marketplace

• Remove bad/dishonest actors

• Shape a development roadmap of the platform

• Set bounties for development of features & add-ons   

Combine Development Automation with Human Expertise 

Imagine the automation bots been powered by A.I and machine learning. No matter how useful it might be in the DevOPs market place, it can never be as creative and as experience as the human factor.This is why the team is trying to create an avenue where experts and advisors, will be able to receive job orders through Buddy’s pipeline thereby giving users access to specialist in demand most especially in blockchain development world. With the aid of Buddy, experts will be able to build new revenue of stream around job orders, in return.

  

Use of Funds

Whatever money that will be raised during the ico will be used to fund a go-to-market strategy and develop a decentralised application development and deployment platform that will feature a private and shared automation grid, the DevOps Marketplace,making Buddy open-source, and technologies for Blockchain application development: 

dAppOS, distributed Blockchain-as-a-Service and BlockchainOps. Blockchain will also be learned to develop skills for the current programmers through the buddy platform.

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