INTRODUCTION

Blockchain technology have been the next best invention following the invention of internet. It has made fund transaction possible without the help of any financial bodies by introducing digital currency.
Nevertheless, the internet still remain the bedrock of so many social network platforms.
Presently, internet is limitless in action and has a great value to the world today. Internet allows programmers to utilize software effectively.
The evolution of the blockchain technology was recognized as the solution to the existing problems that developers have encountered in the past. Buddy was established to ease the problems.
Buddy is a decentralized blockchain based application development automation platform created to enhance automatic application development operations.
Buddy is well structured to provide solutions to the existing problems in the software industry giving the developers the opportunity to enjoy maximum satisfaction while working.

Buddy creates a fair marketplace for developers so that they can easily design, test, launch and run their various software and applications effectively.
Buddy is a platform that brings scalability in the development of various applications and software.
Hence, Buddy was birthed to ease the problem, reduce the stress, automate the process and create an avenue to integrate additional features that will uplift the existing system and give maximum satisfaction to developers, consumers and the community.

THE BUDDY AIM

The sole aim of Buddy platform is to reduce the burden of the developer by unpacking all tasks that can be automated thereby encouraging developers to take advantage of the time available to become more creative and no longer need to do the same work repeatedly.

THE BUDDY VISION
Our vision is to become the backbone on which talented people can build world-altering apps & services. The goal is to offload everything from developers that can be automated – giving them back the time for being creative

HISTORY OF BUDDY

The team behind Buddy platform was founded in 2007 which has attracted so many great partners and integration with various ecosystems. Some of these ecosystems include: VULTR, Digital Ocean, amazon web service, and many more.
• Buddy was established in 2015 with the sole aim of applying automation into the application development process, so that developers won’t waste time on repetitive tasks, rather they focus on creative challenges, not waste time on repetitive tasks
•Buddylater became a partner with the already famous cloud leaders which includes: Google, Github, Microsoft, aws marketplace, docker store and other key players in its quest to help developers deliver faster and better-quality products.

THE ISSUES ON THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Problems of Decentralized Development Automation Platform

Due to the thousands of tests and other DevOps tasks that some companies execute every day which takes hours to complete, they invest heavily in their build infrastructure. As a result, their enterprise DevOps infrastructure is complex, costly and requires 24/7 maintenance.

Problem of Parallelism

It requires intensive effort planning and configuring to speed up delivery times and as well eliminate unnecessary queues. This can be achieved by executing builds and actions within pipelines and as well run multiple pipelines at the same time.

Scaling of DevOps infrastructure

This affects crucial development automation metrics which strongly influence business, as companies can progress and perform only as fast as their IT lets them.

Problems of Buddy for Blockchain Apps.

• Challenges in the adoption of Blockchain technology and the development of smart contracts or dApps could be as a result of so many myths surrounding Blockchain development.
• The complexibility of the dApps and smart contracts leads to the introduction of bugs and flaws into the system waiting to be exploited by bad actors which in turns lead to loss of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies.

THE BUDDY SYSTEM

Having understood the issues facing the software development processes, the Buddy system tackles these problems through the following solutions.

• The open DevOps Marketplace
• Private Automation GRID
• Shared Automation GRID
• BlockchainOps
• dAppOs
• Distributed Blockchain as a Service

The DevOps Marketplace

The DevOps marketplace is a place where web developers can get automation scripts. Buddy users develop and deploy software using carefully crafted automation actions which are arranged into pipelines, making testing, building and deploying just a matter of a few clicks.

Buddy enables third party developers to deliver their own actions within the Buddy ecosystem, using them in their own development automation pipelines. The image below shows some third party actions from the BUDDY ecosystem and their use cases

Private Automation Grid

The idea of Private Automation GRID is to develop a network (GRID) of Buddy instances that can create High Availability auto-scalable infrastructure for development and deployment automation using auto-discovery and replication capabilities.

The new Buddy instances automatically decide on their roles once they appear in the network. The first two instances create a master-master replication to enable a High Availability system.
Buddy can create new and remove redundant instances on the- fly, depending on the load.
Buddy uses integrations with IaaS providers for this, such as AWS or Google Cloud, or use other trusted Buddy GRIDs provided directly by. Buddy or certified partners.

Example:
To meet the load demand during the day, Buddy can utilize a user's AWS account to replicate itself outside the private network, and kill those instances once the workday is over - automatically on-the-fly and within set constraints.

Shared Automation Grid

Shared Automation Grid has the same working principle with that of Private Automation GRID, except that it allows others on the Buddy network to run some of the instances to off-load resource intensive tasks. Shared automation can be used to get rid of high-intensive automation tasks to a network of Buddy instances run by users with available resources using Shared Automation GRID.

Compute Unit

The compute unit is the basis of the shared automation GRID. Shared Automation GRID uses Compute Unit in exchange for a BUD token by the instance owner. The unit can be specified as 2 vCPUs, 2GB of RAM, 4GB of SSD storage.

The compute unit can be regarded as the node of the shared automation GRID; it is the entity that can be assigned as a node so as to run the instance of that task.

BlockchainOps

Buddy pioneers the development automation of Blockchain-based projects by enabling the Blockchain developers to design automation pipelines with ready-to-go actions: from compiling and tests, to deployments, custom scripts and dApps monitoring.

With these scripts, blockchain developers can make good use of the time spent on respective task to focus on other parts of the blockchain projects. You can check out BlockchainOps Actions from the DevOps Marketplace below

dAppOS

dApps is a ready to use development environment introduced by Buddy using the combination of Docker based Sandboxes with native Linux containers. With dAppOs, the problem of bootstrapping Blockchain based projects like dApps can be solved.

Also additional services like MySQL, Redis, Mongolian and many others can be easily extended using dAppOs such as sandboxes.

Distributed Blockchain as a Service

Buddy is a platform that permits blockchain developers to focus on building exactly what they want thereby, making them to be more productive.

With Buddy, users can deploy unlimited Blockchain nodes per Buddy instance for multi/cross-chain applications.

The Bud Token

The Bud token enables the Buddy platform to allow developers to earn from sharing their tools on the platform. With Bud token, users can purchase those tools.

By joining the Buddy economy, users can also set as nodes for the Automation GRID and earn from their computers being utilized to run task for developers.

BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH DevOps

Any organisation utilising the services of DevOps have great potentials to benefit tremendously from its services. Benefits associated with DevOps includes;

• Technical benefits which make Code changes deployed faster,
• Quicker recovery from downtimes,
• Less complexity to manage,
• Automated testing and deployments,
• Quicker feedback from clients,
• Elimination of bottlenecks and faster resolution of problems.

In terms of the cultural benefits, Transparency in distribution of knowledge and skills, increased collaborations between the development teams and higher employment engagement comes to play. In its business benefits, there is faster and quick delivery of products, stable operational environments, easier achievement of organisational visions and goals and improved communication among developers.

CONCLUSION

From the points above, it can be concluded that make DevOps adoption insanely easy, Buddy transparent and effortless. There are various innovative solutions offered by Buddy to help solve problems in the application automation industry. Buddy consists of Automatic pipelines, sandboxes, version control and integrations.

Buddy system tackles the issues on the software development process through: The open DevOps Marketplace, Private Automation GRID, Shared Automation GRID, BlockchainOps dAppOs, Distributed Blockchain as a Service.
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