Buddy

BUDDY

This is a holistic application development and deployment automation platform that makes DevOps adoption easy, transparent and effortless

PROS:

• The platform enables the creation of a repeatable ,reliable and incrementally process for taking software  from concept to the customers  to  improve the production process
• The platform actions can be executed easily  through the pipelines each bearing an infinite number of steps  allowing the users to prioritize the intended actions to be executed
• The platform detects the content of the users repository  and chooses the right stack to run any application without any configuration required  through the uses of sandboxes  which reduces the provision of a server
• The platform integrations has led to great credibility which is highly aided by the correct partnerships  with different companies to create easy automation
• The encrypted application secrets  and sensitive data in the Git repository  are securely stored by the platform eliminating access by any unauthorized personnel
• The platform develops  a complete test infrastructure  allowing the developers  and QA teams to easily define test environments for every popular programming language  and framework both in cloud and on-premises
• 7  The platform has a complete   and credible team with the many years of experience in  IT  related  to the project demands  easening the project implementation
• The platform white paper  is properly detailed  with adequate information on the real-life application of the project by different companies and users 

CONS:

• The platform white paper is not  available in other languages
• The platform BUD tokens  doesn’t provide more incentives to the holders  by allowing them to take part in the project decision making process

SUGGESTIONS:

• The platform should involve internationally qualified personnel to help in translating the project white paper to other languages
• The platform BUD tokens should be made exchangeable with other cryptocurrencies  and fiat to promote the platform use across the globe

NOTE:

The platform use creates an improvement of service structure of different sectors as it automates the processes involved creating a decentralized DevOps marketplace. This makes the platform viable and I would highly invest in it

Market Market competitive environment:
From 2017 until 2022, intensive growth in the demand for application development and deployment software is forecasted at a phenomenal CAGR of 25.6%, reaching $346 billion.
In the application development landscape a successful marketplace built around an ecosystem is quite typical. All major players, such as Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services, use their marketplaces as a drive to help their communities grow and adopt new solutions.
According to the statement of the project's founders: "We are the first movers within the blockchain space."
Buddy's competitors in the traditional market are CircleCI, Codefresh, Codeship, Travis, Jenkins
Official project documents do not disclose the main competitors of the Buddy project and do not publish the results of a comparative analysis of their characteristics.
Buddy knows the economy of marketplaces very well as it is already a part of various ecosystems: Microsoft Azure Marketplace, Github Marketplace, Google Cloud Launcher, and Docker Store.
There are millions of developers so our target market is huge and tools like ours quickly reach billions in value (ex: AppDynamics sold to Cisco for 3.7 bln).
Buddy’s Automation GRID is neither similar nor an alternative to any planned supercomputers like Golem and SONM. Here is why. Automation by Design Buddy’s pipelines are executed automatically on the Shared Automation GRID as the grid model is much simpler (Compute Unit usage per second). There are no steps involving purchasing computing power or selecting hardware & application types on each job execution. Buddy users run hundreds of tasks daily: the service has been designed to run them repeatedly without any user interaction. Supercomputers, on the other hand, are more about requesting completion of one-time jobs with very large computing power needs (e.g. the pharmaceutical industry).

Project advantages:
The main advantages of the project are:
Closely-bonded team of 16 working together for years – most of them partners and shareholders
The self-hosted Enterprise version of the platform ready to be used as the foundation for the decentralized application development automation.
A product that solves problems of a $110B market, including such brands as Inc. Magazine, Docplanner and CGI.
Partnerships with Google, GitHub, Docker, Microsoft and Amazon by participating in the Google Cloud Launcher, GitHub Marketplace, Docker Store, Azure and (soon) Amazon Web Services Marketplace respectively.
Buddy delivers updates to its platform on weekly basis. It’s the fastest on the market.
The Buddy platform has > 20 integrations with popular dev ecosystems, the highest on the market
The Buddy team is Docker heavy users, which makes it very fast and flexible, while most of the competition is stuck in the virtual machines area

SOCIAL ACTIVITY
Project’s popularity in social networks and at topic forums
As of July 11, 2018, the user base in social networks of the project counts over 140K users, but the audience’s activity is low.
Twitter — 28,6K followers, from 12 to 8400 likes and to 12000 retwits per 1 post, which suggests artificial activity of the audience. On the average, 3 twits per day are posted.