Overview
Application software development is perhaps one of the fastest-growing industries in today's IT world. Valued at $110 billion and with thousands of apps developed and deployed each day, application software development is already big business, but the industry has enormous challenges too. The challenges include bogus and out-of-date application development tools, langauge barrier among heterogenous software teams, application development complexities, conflicting goals, inadequate training and lack of development infrastructure. These are huge problems fighting to wrestle down the giant software application industry.
Because of these hurdles, organizations are limited on the number of tests and applications they can run each day. This in turn, limits the potential output and growth of these organizations. In the face of all these challenges, it seems that traditional sotware development methods are the only way to go. But then, Buddy comes to the rescue!
Buddy is an out-of-the box innovative solution to the many challenges facing the application software development industry. It is a decentralized application development toolbox designed to help developers focus on the creative aspects of application development while the platform automates the complex and resource-draining job of developing the application software backbone. In this article, we will take a serious look at how Buddy created the first apps development marketplace and changed the conventional apps development workflow. We will see why a growing number of respected brands worldwide are already using Buddy to automate their app development strategy.
What's the Vision of Buddy?
According to information from the Whitepaper , Buddy's vision is to become the backbone on which talented people can build world-altering apps a d services. The goal is to offload everything from developers that can be automated- giving them back the time for being creative.
How does Buddy solve the major challenge facing the application software industry?
Problem: Many organizations run their own centralized app development infrastructure. These are very complex development environments on which every test is done. Because of the vast number and nature of software test conducted on these platforms, they require non-stop maintenance, are very costly to set up and are big complicated tools in themselves. So organizations need a more optimized and automated environment to take care of repetitive and complex apps development operations and free up time for creative and designing aspects of the job.
How will attracting more developers to switch over to blockchain development help blockchain technology prosper?
The more the developers on blockchain technology, the more the innovation and decentralization of the various fields held captives by middlemen.
There is a new surge of developers coming into the blockchain tech because it is more rewarding and it is being quickly accepted by all.
Buddy in her wisdom is helping developers have a smooth transition into Dapps without going through much stress of learning from scratch.
How does the Automation Marketplace help ensure that the Buddy ecosystem can continue to grow?
With more than eighty (80) developed automation actions to assist the developer, Buddy helps the users to easily and quickly develop and deploy solutions on the go.
Also, with the automation marketplace, developers can also submit their built in actions to Buddy for free or paid.
How is the current lack of developer tools and automation scripts creating a barrier of entry for developers to work on blockchain projects?
Going into the Blockchain development market is not a cakewalk. There are lots of stuff like EVM, Geth, Solidity, Dapps to understand but with Buddy, it is a thing of the past as it completely eliminates these challenges and provides all the tools necessary at the finger tip of the programmer or user.
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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.
Buddy' Mobile Wallet App for Android
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.
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!
What is a Bud?
A Bud is an ethereum based token used by the Buddy community to reward developers, experts and other users.
The rate of 1 BUD stands at 0.0002 ETH according to information on the Whitepaper.
There is a total sale supply of 300 million to 470 million BUDS but a total of 670 million total supply was generated.
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!
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