A Q&A With Andela’s Next Developers in Residence: Akinjide and Rehema
There are many ways to embrace the #TIA spirit, and one of them is by doing a quick Q&A with our newest DIRs (Developers in Residence) who will be touching down today at JFK—Akinjide and Rehema!...
View ArticleAfrican Andela marks year three with Uganda expansion
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View ArticleTop 25 Tech Companies to Watch
Andela is ranks as one of the WSJ's emerging leaders in hot corners of the technology industry. A data analysis assessed companies' founders, investors, funding, growth and buzz. The post Top 25 Tech...
View ArticleThe future of tech is in ‘cities across Africa,’ says start-up CEO
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View ArticleGraphQL: Queries, Mutuations and Subscriptions
In my first article, I talked about GraphQL types and relationships. This time, I’ll be focusing on queries, mutations and subscriptions. lI’ll also provide an overview of how variables are used. This...
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Announcing Andela’s Series C
In July of 2014, Andela put out a call for aspiring software developers in Nigeria. Through Twitter alone, we received 700 applicants, interviewed a few dozen, and accepted six to join Andela’s first...
View ArticleStart-Up Bets on Tech Talent Pipeline From Africa
Andela’s growth plans got an enthusiastic endorsement this week from its financial backers, with a $40 million round of venture funding that lifts the total the company has raised to $80 million. The...
View ArticleStart-Up Bets on Tech Talent Pipeline From Africa
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Docker is Changing Software Products Deployment – DockerCon 2018 Recap
If you speak to any DevOps engineer about the best way to deploy applications today, they’ll very likely talk to you about Docker. Docker is a tool that lets you pack and deploy applications in...
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Automating Infrastructure as a Code (IAAC) using Terraform, Ansible and...
We hosted over 70 guests – DevOps enthusiasts – at our Lagos office over the weekend where we held the September edition of Andela Workshop. Andela Workshops are technical focus sessions headlined by...
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Contributing With Code: Purity Birir’s Developer Journey
Purity Birir will be attending this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration in Houston, Texas from September 26–28, 2018. Her journey into software development is one that began in apathy towards the status...
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Why I’m All In On Andela — Our First Cohorts of Developers Launch
On Thursday, September 20, 2018, we made history at Andela. We launched the first set of Fellows who formed the earliest cohorts of developers we started with four years ago. The journey of these 21...
View ArticleSolving the Junior Developer Dilemma: How to Build a Great Mentorship Program
Junior… We’ve all been there. At one time or another in our careers, most of us have started at the bottom, and over time, evolved our skills in order to be known as “senior.” We’ve had lots of...
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Meet the Women Building The Future at Andela Nigeria
Written by Bodunrin Akinola A quick test for you: Name the first woman in tech that comes into your head. What’s the chance that names like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer came to mind? Yes, those...
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Scaling Culture: How We Built The Best Place To Work in Africa
Scaling companies anywhere is tough. Growing from 100 – 1000 employees in 2 years is extremely tough. But driving that kind of workplace growth across Africa is something that has never been done...
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Completing The Fellowship: Rukayat Sadiq’s Developer Journey
We recently held our inaugural launch ceremony for Fellows completing the Andela Fellowship. Rukayat Sadiq, one of the launching devs penned down a summary of her remarkable journey and experience in...
View ArticleThe Efficacy of Lean UX
The concept behind Lean UX is that the first design iteration isn’t conclusive, so don’t spend too much time on it. Build a minimum working product based on assumptions and start collecting user...
View ArticleTalks At Andela: Getting Unstuck With VP, Technology of Expedia, Subbu...
The inaugural edition of Talks At Andela happened this October, and we had none other than the excellent Subbu Allamaraju as our first guest speaker. Subbu is the Vice President of Technology at...
View ArticleIs React Worth The Hype?
Ever since Facebook’s React was open sourced at the Javascript Conference in May 2013, it has gone on to shape Front-end development for most developers. 66.9% of devs polled in Stack Overflow’s 2017...
View ArticleAndela Learning Community 3.1: 10,000 Grow With Google Developer Scholarships...
The Andela Learning Community (ALC) is happy to announce a new learning track for graduates of the Google Africa Scholarship Challenge. Courtesy of a partnership with Pluralsight and Google, 10,000...
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