BUDDY "Decentralised Application Development Platform"

Introduction

Information and communication technology has contributed immensely to the massive globalization of the world. Many organizations or corporations have been established in this era and most have implemented development automation to achieve rapid growth in their companies.

Some Organizations/corporations rely heavily on application automation to carry out most programming tasks, frameworks and services for the growth and development of their companies. These companies execute hundreds to thousands of tasks every day, most of which takes time to undertake. In a bid to provide faster services, they tend to run multiple pipelines, execute builds and actions simultaneously.

However, due to how hectic and the pressure of executing these tasks, most organizations development infrastructure is complex, costly and requires maintenance regularly.

This is the scenario where the decentralized development automation platform Buddy steps into action.

What is Buddy?

Buddy is a decentralized development automation platform that aims to offload the automated part of application development from developers as well as ensure that a company working under them does not bother about running multiple pipelines, executing builds and actions in their infrastructure.

With Buddy companies/individuals would be able to build application and services for its infrastructure. The time spent by developers on the technical aspect of application development would be spent on being creative on another sector of the company.

The value of businesses is in shipping and not configuring. Buddy would handle the automation and maintenance of the DevOps infrastructure of these organizations, so as to improve the automation metrics to boost their business.

Buddy tackles these limitations through the following solutions

The DevOps Marketplace
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To ensure the easy development and deploy of software, Buddy has developed over 80 automation process to help users. These processes are developed in such a way that even complex applications and multi-cloud workflows are built and deployed with just a few clicks.

In a bid to further make it accessible, Buddy has made the DevOps marketplace open for third party developers to deliver their actions within the ecosystem, as well as develop and submit their own actions to the market place, free or paid.

Just as in the case of infamous App stores like Google play, Windows and IOS where individuals develop and submit their Apps to be accessed by users.

The importance of Market place in an application development landscape need not be neglected. Market place is necessary for the growth and adoption of new solutions within the ecosystem.

In the Buddy platform, third party developers would be rewarded for their solutions offered to the DevOps market place.

Furthermore, to encourage innovative and talented developers, the marketplace would be curated for only quality submissions so as to protect authors from copycats. The developers would also contribute to the growth of the Buddy ecosystem by making their submissions to be open source.

Private Automation Grid
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The idea behind the Private Automation Grid 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.

Security is of utmost priority for major enterprises as well as reliability and high latency. However, with Buddy the enterprises will be in full control of its resources.

Buddy instances are controlled automatically. Once a new one appears, their roles are decided automatically. In a scenario where first two instances appear, they create a master-master replication to create a high availability system. The next instance will be used as an agent to run more pipelines in parallel.

Buddy use integrations with IaaS providers or other trusted GRIDs to create new and remove redundant instances immediately.

Shared Automation Grid
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Buddy makes use of shared automation Grid to offload automated high intensive tasks to other Buddy instances run by users with available resources. This is done especially in cases where trust is not necessary. For the users to be able to handle the high intensive tasks, they must own a compute unit.

The compute unit is the basis of the shared automation grid. This is the smallest entity that can act as a node of the shared automation grid in exchange for BUD token by the instance owner. Once the tasks are completed and transferred to the requester, the storage unit is released.

Buddy as a tool for development of Blockchain Apps

Smart contracts and Blockchain Apps development is complicated. The technology behind development of blockchain is yet to be understood. There are many concepts, process and ideas programmers have to understand before delving into blockchain development.

On many occasions, veteran hackers exploit the loopholes left by most programmers while developing DApps and smart contracts, leading to loss of huge crypto investment that sums up in millions of dollars.

Many would ask why such things happen. It happens because of lack of tools to assist with the development and lack of technical knowledge on smart contracts and DApps development.
However, these limitation can be addressed with the use of Buddy in smart contracts and DApps development.

Buddy aims to solve these limitations through the following process

BlockchainOps

As it is in the case of development automation for web developers, Buddy provides development automation for blockchain development. Blockchain developers can develop automation processes for compiling and tests, for deployment of actions, custom scripts and monitoring of DApps.

dAppOS

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With the help of docker-based sandboxes in combination with native linux containers, Buddy provides an already development environment called dAppOS. The dAppOS can serve as foundation for smart contracts/dapps development training.

In addition, Buddy’s cloud would be able to run dAppOS, so that users can work on their projects from anywhere. Every dAppOS can work in different ways; as a standalone environment for development, for testing and also for collaboration and feedback.

Template universe, a marketplace for sandbox and dAppOS templates provided by third party developers , so as to reduce friction to test and experiment with new blockchain technologies.

Distributed Blockchain-as-a-Service

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In the Buddy ecosystem developers are free to focus on creating what they need. Developers would be able to develop multi-chain applications for organizations that need multiple blockchain technologies.

BUD token

BUD is the currency for use in the Buddy ecosystem. It is an ERC20 token and can be used to reward the developers and also be used by users to purchase paid apps on the marketplace.

Conclusion

App development and maintenance is quite a hectic task for organizations/corporations. The time companies dedicate to automation of application development can be used to focus on improving and boosting their business.

These limitations can be addressed using the Buddy platform.
Furthermore, the development of smart contracts and blockchain apps, as well as the vulnerability of smart contracts/blockchain apps to hackers would reduce with the help of the Buddy platform.

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