Buddy [BUD] | Using Blockchain Technology to Help Developers Create
Buddy was launched in 2015 to help developers in a way that allows them to freely focus on creative challenges and not waste time on repetitive tasks. With its 2016 release to a hugely positive response from the community, Buddy partnered with the likes of Google, Github and Microsoft to name a few. Buddy was on a quest to help developers deliver faster and better-quality products, and that ideal has never changed. All through 2017 and 2018, the Buddy team has delivered updates and improvements for a variety of weekly releases.
Breakthrough | The Private Automation Grid:
The main gist of the grid is creating a network (GRID) of 'Buddies' that will (in its most simple terms) discover and replicate these 'Buddy instances' to create a scalable infrastructure for automation within development and deployment. Users may also use their own private cloud or IaaS to run Buddy instances, and that provides complete control and privacy for a user who appreciates such things (such as myself).
Shared Automation Grid:
This grid varies from the private automation grid as it does allow other users onto one's grid for things such as testing of recently developed products. As the whitepaper proficiently states, the shared grid is useful '...in cases where trusted infrastructure is not required'.
Economy and BUD Supply:
The smallest entity that can be assigned as a node of the Shared Automation 'GRID' is what's called a Compute Unit, and in exchange for that 'instance', the user (supplier, owmer of the instance) receives a BUD token. These BUD tokens are the blocks that rule the economy, and with them developers are able to earn cryptocurrency from sharing and selling their tools on the platform.
BUD, and Tokenizing the Industry:
Buddy believes in the future of crypto, and they believe in their token as a digital asset worth having! At its core, BUD is a utility token based on Ethereum (ERC20). With this token, a community driven and decentralized economy in Buddy can be formed. Buddy seeks to literally be 'the' application development automation platform made for developers, by developers! A secondary goal being fulfilled is the fact that everyday users (like myself) can interact with experts in the development field. In seeking how to run my operations more fluidly, I may encounter someone who is fully englufed in the $110 billion bull market which is currently growing to an estimated $330 billion in the next 4
years. Customers are consistently looking to scale their development automation operations, and Buddy is on the forefront of eradicating those issues completely.
The Economy's End Goal (as Read from the WhitePaper):
- To ensure transparency and security for the system’s participants.
- To provide a true and powerful utility.
- To develop strong economic incentives.
- To enhance the platform with the network own.
The Stellar Benefits in Using Buddy:
Open Source
Off the bat, let me applaud Buddy for being Open Source. Offering the foundations of the platform they have built is selfless, and I really do appreciate that as someone who has benefitted from Open Source projects in the past.
User Experience
With a highly praised user interface and polished aesthetic, creating and running automation operations incredibly is easy.
No Overhead and No Fees
According to the Buddy whitepaper, when it actually comes down to the user and the platform, the Private Automation GRID is in essence owned by the user an in turn tasks are executed off-chain instantly with no
token fees. The Shared Automation GRID uses P2P (peer-to-peer) for discovery only, there is no use of torrent[s]
for loading and offloading data.
Thoughts on EoS, ETH
I believe that at the end of the day, BTC will be the godfather of crypto as it led the way to the future of blockchain technology. One persistent problem I see come up is the transactions per second, and how Ethereum and EoS are going to solve those problems and in turn create plaforms will infintessimal more capability that prior blockchains (to build on at least). I can only speak on the meaning of this so much, but I have confident in the BUD token and its eventual economy, and I look forward to the breakthroughs Buddy makes for developers.
More of My Thoughts on Buddy in Video Form [Here]:
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Hi @brandonk
Overall BUDDY is a great project and definetly it will make developers job much easier than it has been so far.
Did you hear about Crowd Machine? It also is trying to create tools allowing developers to create their apps much easier. I wonder if Buddy and crowd machine are direct competitors.
Also should developers be already scared of losing their jobs? With tools like BUDDY their job will be done much faster and demand for so many of them may not be there any more.
Any thoughts? Upvote on the way :)
Cheers, Piotr