BUDDY: AUTOMATED BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES.

This is a look at Buddy’s offerings, and what makes them standout, as a solution for developers.

THE PROBLEM
A lot of development teams have problems, when trying to collaborate on development tasks. Having to go through complicated processes to test and deploy applications, purchase expensive infrastructure, and spend a lot of man hours and resources to get things done.

Many companies carry out hundreds and even thousands of tests, and these do not help them in getting their solutions to the market in time.

Buddy has created a solution that ensures that developers can focus on their core product/service, and seeing every other process has been automated.

You might wonder why they can be trusted to solve this problem.

Well first of, they already have a working solution that is being used by hundreds of companies in different countries.
They are a development team that truly understands the pain, and have been in the same position many developers are in.
They are experienced and are an established SaaS business.

Organisations want to be able to multi-task, and carry out different activities at the same time, to ensure that they can deploy as scheduled.

In other to free up time for organisations to focus on their primary objectives, Buddy has come up with a number of solutions to make this a possibility.

DEVOPS MARKETPLACE:
Understanding user pain, Buddy has crafted over 80 automated actions that ensure that development and deployment of software is carried out with ease.

The marketplace is also open to third party developers, who are free to create solutions that organisations/development teams can use to achieve their goals. These can be either listed as free or paid, and developers can earn residual income from this.

Buddy will also ensure that developers that are a part of the marketplace make their applications free to non-commercial open source projects. This on its own, will ensure that the blockchain continues to grow, and will also ensure that more developers gain interest in developing for the blockchain.

PRIVATE AUTOMATION GRID:
Users can decide to make use of their own infrastructure, private clouds or IaaS, to run Buddy instances.
DevOps is related to dealing with sensitive data, therefore security is paramount, and there is also no room for high latency.
Users need to be in control, and this gives them that.

SHARED AUTOMATION GRID:
In cases where security isn’t paramount, or sensitive data is not dealt with, Shared Automation GRID could be a solution.
Processes that need a lot of resources where trust isn’t a primary concern can shift automation tasks to a network of users with idle/spare resources, running Buddy instances.
Usually in this case, they are used to run processes, process the results, and have them sent back to the requester.
Once this is done, the storage is released.
Buddy guarantees users safety, by ensuring that only actions accepted in the DevOps marketplace can be run on the Shared Automation GRID.

BUDDY FOR BLOCKCHAIN APPS
Buddy ensures that deploying applications on the blockchain (has support for several) is also as simple as clicking buttons in a few steps, just like it is for web developers.
Bugs lead to vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities lead to insecurity and opens up the system to hacks.

Tools to assist blockchain developers are few and far in between. Buddy has created a couple of solutions to cater to the needs of blockchain developers.

BlockchainOps
This ensures that developers are able to automate tasks on the blockchain, from inception to deployment. They can carry out tasks such as compiling and testing, deployment and DApps testing. This involves a simple process akin to click and drop.

dAppOS
These are development environments that can be used instantly. dAppOS such as Sandbox can have their applications extended, with the aid of additional services such as Redis, MySQL, and Mongo.

They can also be used in training teams with regards to smart contracts and DApps, to give them a feel of what developing on the blockchain is actually like.

Teams can also work remotely, and from anywhere in the world, seeing it’s compactible with Buddy’s cloud.

Distributed BaaS
Buddy uses this to enable teams focus on their core product, goals/objectives. Applications with multi-chain support can be deployed by the click of a button.

Millions of blocks can also be used to carry out tests against the BaaS.

TOKEN
BUD powers the platform, and is used to transfer value.

SUMMARY
Buddy’s impact on the development and deployment process cannot be overemphasized. Buddy ensures that more solutions are created, while saving more time and delivering a better ROI. By automating tasks, resources can be diverted to other processes, as well as ensuring the team focuses on their primary objective, as I said earlier.
By creating tools and opening up the marketplace to third parties, Buddy ensures that real solutions can be created even much more quickly, ensuring the crypto space develops at an alarming rate.

These tools all working together, ensures that developers are attracted to develop on the blockchain. Having a pletoria of solutions that aids in creating solutions that could solve real world problems and being pioneers, will surely appeal to developers.

A lack of tools to work with will ensure that the developers needed to create real solutions for users will not be existent, growth and adoption will also be slow.

Giving developers more tools to work with gives them more reasons to sign up, and along with opening up access to open source projects will ensure that the industry’s growth continues at a healthy rate.

They also ensure that learning doesn’t seem so difficult, with basically every angle/concern development teams have had, covered.

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