BUDDY: Decentralized Application Development Automation.

So many companies out there today conduct hundreds of builds, tests and other DevOps tasks. This takes a huge piece out of their already limited time and a huge investment is incurred to build this infrastructure. These DevOps are complex, costly and high maintenance in nature and this parallelism of speeding up delivery times and eliminating unnecessary queues. They are required to run not only multiple pipelines but manage builds and actions within different pipelines. This dual race often clogs the progress as companies can perform only if their IT lets them.

Application automation is hugely beneficial but is challenging to adopt. Large organizations often struggle with their DevOps infrastructure. Often it leads to conflicts in goals and attitudes and damages the organizational performance. Buddy provides various solutions in this regard with brands such as:

Amazon web services technology partner, Google cloud partner, Rollbar integration partner and many others are the integrations and channel partners of Buddy.

Brands such as Inc. Magazine, CGI, Docplanner, Flow, Anki and many others are already using Buddy to automate their app development operations.

It is already operational with several of its solutions such as Automation pipelines with 70+ ready-to-use steps, Sandboxes or full stack previews and test environments and Integrations consisting of rich pallets to provide a comprehensive stack. It has a few more solutions lined up like Automation Grid, DevOps Marketplace, and BlockchainOps that wait for the ICO launch of Buddy in the cryptocurrency market.

The Co-founder of Buddy, Simon Szczepankowski says,

We strongly believe in the idea of marketplaces. Buddy is already present in Github, Docker, Microsoft Azure and Google cloud, and with great results.

It was established in 2007 with bootstrapping Springloops, a popular platform hosting tools for web developers. The earned know-how and expertise over the years has consequenced themselves finally into Buddy.

Buddy brings in three solutions namely, DevOps marketplace, Private Automation GRID and Shared Automation GRID.

The DevOps Marketplace

• 80 carefully designed automation actions for developing and deploying software.
• Arranged into pipelines to make build, test and deploy even complex applications and multi-cloud workflows
• Third-party developers can develop their own development automation pipelines and publish plugins for free

Private Automation GRID

• GRID or network of Buddy instances that will use auto-discovery and replication capabilities
• Auto Scalable infrastructure for development and deployment automation

Shared Automation GRID

• To offload high intensive automation tasks to a network of buddy instances run by users with available resources.
• Resource-intensive tasks allow for the usage of decentralized networks to gain an advantage.
• Buddy uses its own P2P network whose peers are moderated by Buddy's DAO.

Advantages of Buddy as a sharing GRID

The process is much simpler with no buying steps involved. The service has been designed to run the tasks repeatedly without any user interaction.

Buddy puts users in full control allowing their users to set up their own private Automation GRIDS.

Simplistic and user-friendly interface to ease up the operations.

No token fees involved as the transactions happen offline in private user GRIDs.

Buddy aims to go open source after the release of its ICO to contribute towards the blockchain economy.

Buddy as a solution for blockchain apps can help the developers to design automation pipelines with ready to go in actions.

Buddy also introduces, ready to use, in development environments called as dAppOS. This is a turnkey solution for bootstrapping Blockchain based projects. It can serve as a training tool for providing Blockchain education. Users can run the solution on their private network and experience near local performance.

BUD token and its ICO details:

It will be an ERC20 compatible utility token on the platform. It will be used for availing various services on the platform and paying fees for others. It will lead to access to shared automation GRID, DevOps marketplace, and Sandbox templates. The tokens will also guarantee few voting rights related to decisions pertaining to the platform.

A total sale supply of 300 million to 470 million will be issued depending on the bonuses applied in the crowdsale. A maximum of 670 million and a minimum of 500 million tokens will be generated in total. The hardcap is fixed at 60,000 ETH. Price per token will be 0.0002 ETH. ICO will start on 1st August and end on 15 October with different levels of bonuses available.

Concluding Verdict:

Buddy is already catering to a number of integrations, brands, and marketplaces and with its ICO release aims to venture the blockchain scene and provide solutions for that as well. Users can be hugely benefited from the lower cost, user-friendly interface and automated pipelines and GRIDs of Buddy. Third-party developers can be a party to the platform and earn profits as well. The investors can avail early bird bonuses of up to 25% at the ICO. The BUD tokens comes up with voting rights concerning several important decisions relating to the platform. The Buddy.io is already a successful platform and its extension looks quite promising in the future.

For more details visit:

Website: https://token.buddy.works/

Whitepaper: https://files.buddy.works/ico/BuddyWhitepaper.pdf

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