Preface
In my article today I will be doing a very brief and precise review on a platform that has impacted greatly on the present day Application development and deployment. Although this platform is mainly a boon to developers, yet it benefits expands to Non-developers as well. In the present world there has been tremendous increase in online purchase and transactions, infact online marketing and e-commerce lately has Proven to be less stressful and less expensive as compared to purchasing from stores and shops, this on the other hand has encouraged simultaneous increase in necessity and use of application. Hence, a surviving internet trade platform requires the engagements of developers, yet the cost of developing and maintaining such apps and platforms tends to be more costly, this mostly due to the problems of development automation.
To help our understanding more, let's get to see what automation implies:
Valdick is an artist and he wants to draw a figure ( a pot or something), two successfully complete such project there are to sets of task he has to complete the first set includes stuffs like sharpening his drawing tools, setting the drawing board, pinning the drawing paper to the board and other tasks of that nature. Another set is that which involves him drawing, painting, editing, modifications etc. But if there was tobe someone who took care of the first aspect and automatically ensures that everything is ready for the project, All Valdick has to do is spend more time on his drawing and make the best out of his skills. This is an appropriate example of the platform I will be discussing today. Buddy.
Buddy
Buddy as mentioned already is a platform basically for developers, it is a decentralized development and deployment automation platform, it allows for easy and optimized Application development and deployment for app developers and also various enterprises to achieve better results at cheaper cost, most at times much is spent in developing a different infrastructure totally to run such functions that can be automated to save developers time to focus.
The vision of this platform 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.[Source: Buddy whitepaper]
What problems is Buddy addressing
Most of the problems and challenges This platform aims to tackle includes:
- Most Organizations loose a lot of money and resources trying to invest in their build infrastructure, they tend to run test, tasks and builds in great numbers, their Development Automation then becomes complex, expensive and difficult to maintain, hence less focus is given to other important and productive areas of such organizations.
- This organizations also have problems of automation rates (scaling) to deal with scaling of automation infrastructures affects significant development Automation matrics, as below from the whitepaper
Scaling of DevOps infrastructure affects crucial development automation
metrics:
• Deployment Frequency
• New Features, Fixes Volume & Customer Ticket Volume
• Time from Development to Deployment (Lead Time)This implies that the growth of the organization is limited by the limits of the operations of their IT, which shouldn't be so.
• Percentage of Failed Deployments
• Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)
• Availability
- Also, the issue of parallism, most of this organizations are faced with the challenge of running multiple channels or pipelines and simultaneously ensure execution of tasks and builds within such channels.
- DApps and Smart contract development is a tedious task for even very bright and experienced developers, as Dapps become more complex faults and flaws set in, is such are attacked maliciously by human or bot, it could lead to loss of a great amount of money. Many current platforms do not possess appropriate tools and mechanisms good and matured enough to establish a relationship of trust between founder and developers. This is a crucial barrier for developers to be interested in OR work blockchain platforms.
How is Buddy intending to impact development Automation and as well address the above listed problems.
- Presently they are over 75-80 existing automated activities on buddy that aids developers write and deploy programmes, After creation of such processes, they are distributed into channels which then reduces the tedious nature of development, testing and deployment, this activities then could be performed as fast as lightening. Complex smart contracts and DApps are not exceptions to this innovation.
Automating security Reports
A new mechanism to tremendously improve code quality and at the same reduce shipment time. How is this achieved?
Securify
Is a smart activity on the platform that is distributed to the DevOps market place and it is accessible to all to be added to individual automation channels and its primary function is to report issues brought into its codebase, this inturn wipes out unnecessary code repetitions, modifications and edits that would normally delay task completion and require additional testings when done late
ConstantoAuto Scaling
- Another interesting advantage of Buddy platform is its unlimited scalability, once a new build shows up on the platform, they automatically identify New paths, The former duplicate to create an extended framework. This continues as every new case serves as an operator to carry and run more channels in parallel.
Safety of sponsors/ Founders of DApps
The safety of an investor is currently one of the barriers to investors from sourcing blockchain projects. Tested activities endorsed in DevOps market place can run constantly on the shared Automatic GRID, since this activities must be open sourced with outstanding aims to be verified by DevOps Market place validators, it then ensures that the platform is filled with quality materials. In the other hand, provision is made to dispense poorly performing users, this is overseen by a legit team (DAO) consisting of both
Automated and Manual pilots, Also investors/founders are secured by Docker Compartment seclusion. All this work hand in hand to ensure safety of providers and host.Finally, all this benefits are enjoyed with No hidden or overhead charges. The buddy platform through allowing user to passes PAG (Private Automation GRID) hence most transactions are completed off-chain at great speed with no token expenditure.
Conclusion
Buddy is a major boon to developers, it creates opportunities for developers, it creates opportunities for developers to build, run test and activities less tediously and at little or no cost to make work easier is what first drove man to use science for technology and Buddy is offering that easy developing life, plus safe, cheap and transparent transaction platform.
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Additional information
Token Economics and details
Tokens are proficient, with the ability to create positive response loops that influences the market as a whole, the aim of tokens is to develop strong incentives, provide a great utility, stand as a factor of governance to give users, providers and developers a sense of ownership and finally ensure security and safety for system participants.
Road map
The team
This platform is engineered and established by a team of about 16 experienced and skillful experts with outstanding reputations:
For more information
If there is any concept you didn't get well or you wish to know more about this platform, you can visit any of the listed links
Buddy website
Buddy Whitepaper
Buddy onepager
Buddy Token sale
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Buddy Medium
Buddy Github
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Good morning @valdick
Lately I've read about other tool called Crowd Machine and this project in so many ways seem to be similar to BUDDY.
Both are going to make developers lifes easier and both are worth attention. Thx for this great review.
Sometimes Im wondering if being tester/developer is not a risky job those days. All those new tools will make their life easier but since developers will be so much more efficient ... will there be enough jobs for them?
I wonder. What do you think?
Obviously upvoted
Cheers,
Piotr
Thanks boss, although am not a developer but it's clear that a lot is going to change with this kind of innovation, thanks for commenting.
big thx for your prompt reply @valdick