EP11: Scalability Engineering - "What does it mean to build with Scale in mind"?
03/22/19 • 56 min
On this Episode, hosts, Cynthia, Wezi, Elias & Mukuma welcome Muchu, CEO of Apptorney as we discuss approaches to Scalability in the Tech space. We give insights on Circuits approach to Scalability in the short and long term especially with Apptorney. We talk about the progress on Women in Tech activities in Zambia, electronic voting systems as well Facebook and Google's brief disruption in services on some their platforms.
We gave a slight insight into technology stacks that give you the best options when you build with Scalability in mind with Apptorney, Netflix and Microsoft as use cases. We discuss how programming languages have evolved to give us scale in the long term and what to look out for including tips on distributed platforms to help you scale without a lot of overhead especially for 1-2 man teams and/or small businesses.
The Swiss e-Voting system bug and bounty hunt program is on in the month of February and March, take your chance to win a piece of $150,000. We discuss suggestions that Block-chains distributed ledger is the answer to the security questions around e-Voting. Project Civil is one such use case using Block-chain to scale the media industry.
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On this Episode, hosts, Cynthia, Wezi, Elias & Mukuma welcome Muchu, CEO of Apptorney as we discuss approaches to Scalability in the Tech space. We give insights on Circuits approach to Scalability in the short and long term especially with Apptorney. We talk about the progress on Women in Tech activities in Zambia, electronic voting systems as well Facebook and Google's brief disruption in services on some their platforms.
We gave a slight insight into technology stacks that give you the best options when you build with Scalability in mind with Apptorney, Netflix and Microsoft as use cases. We discuss how programming languages have evolved to give us scale in the long term and what to look out for including tips on distributed platforms to help you scale without a lot of overhead especially for 1-2 man teams and/or small businesses.
The Swiss e-Voting system bug and bounty hunt program is on in the month of February and March, take your chance to win a piece of $150,000. We discuss suggestions that Block-chains distributed ledger is the answer to the security questions around e-Voting. Project Civil is one such use case using Block-chain to scale the media industry.
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EP10: Culture: The good. The bad. The In between.
On this Episode, hosts, Elias & Mukuma welcome Tony as we discuss Culture and Diversity in the Tech space. We give insights to questions around Cultural Diversity vs Culture and Diversity in Zambia and major tech spaces around the globe. We talk about the progress we have made so far as well as what we are doing absolutely nothing about. We take a look at the big gray areas in the work-space and how cultural diversity influences new tech innovations.
We talk about Teletype (Kinda called it Telemetry but moving on...) which is a feature in Atom that lets other people see you code real time. This is an awesome feature especially for Pair Programming and collaboration across borders.
We highlight Remote.com which is just one example of platforms that help you find opportunities for remote work. Here is a more comprehensive list of other platforms that offer similar opportunities for devs that like to spice it up a little.
2018’s highly controversial memo by former Google Engineer James Damore which caused outrage by suggesting that women's lesser interest in software engineering is the main reason that there is an under-representation of women at Google rather than discrimination within the technology sector. This is what has now become known as Googles’ Ideological Echo Chamber.
We hint at Universal Basic Pay or Income which points to a guaranteed access to minimum income.
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EP12: Bootstrapping Projects on a Budget
On this episode, hosts Elias, Mukuma and Wezi sit down with Mvesesani Co-founder Twaambo. He shares his story tech journey, gives some tips on the entrepreneurial journey and the tools in a developer's arsenal, and the team talks about open source and bootstrapping projects into revenue generating businesses.
In the news, the team talks about Google Stadia, which was unveiled at at this year's GDC, how feasible it is as a model, and the effect it may have on the gaming industry.
Then, Apple's March event. We look in-depth at Apple Arcade, and how this approach contrasts Google's, Apple Card, and whether Apple are running out of ideas on how to make money.
And finally, MTN let's you top up using WhatsApp (only available in South Africa though), but the team asks, why would you you use this over a dedicated app, or USSD
For some other references from this episode, take a look at The Dip by Seth Godin, a handy article about making it through The Trough of Sorrow by Kyle Wong, and the first season of StartUp by Gimlet.
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