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Demystifying The M-Pesa API (Lipa Na M-Pesa Online Payment)
Background M-Pesa is a mobile phone-based money transfer, financing and microfinancing service, launched in 2007 by Vodafone for Safaricom and Vodacom the largest mobile network operators in Kenya and...
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Beyond Fake News: The Andela News Hackathon
The top 3 teams from the #AndelaNewsHackathon with a section of the Andela Kenya team and the BBC team at BBC’s #BeyondFakeNews Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo courtesy: BBC) The BBC recently...
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Developer Skills For The Workplace
More often than not, as a Community Manager at Andela, I have had tech managers, startup founders, developers, and technology enthusiasts approach me with one critical question in mind; “What Skillset...
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Redefining the 10x Developer: The Power of EQ x IQ
When interviewing candidates for a VP of Engineering role, have you ever asked the question: “What’s the most difficult professional challenge you’ve faced and how did you overcome it?” 10 out of 10...
View ArticleTalks At Andela With Brian Douglas: Improving Your Developer Workflow With...
The second edition of Talks at Andela held on November 14, 2018, with Brian Douglas, developer advocate at GitHub, speaking on how to improve developer workflow with GitHub Apps. Brian’s talk, which...
View ArticleDev Myths: Senior Developer Myths
You’r Hiring The Wrong Developers. Here’s Why: Nobody wants to hire a junior developer – just look at the number of senior developer job listings compared to their entry level counterparts. However,...
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The Quiet Rise in Demand For Blockchain Devs
The demand for blockchain developers is soaring in spite of a dwindling buzz around the technology.News coverage and ads around blockchain technology may not be at the fever-pitch level of 2017, but...
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Quantum Computing: The Real Game Changer
Written by Seun Faluyi Quantum computing is becoming one of the most talked about new technology even though it does not fully exist yet. Technology has advanced significantly in recent years, our...
View ArticleDistribute Holiday Cheer Across the Globe
3 Ways to Celebrate the Holidays with your Distributed Team Your team may be slowing down for the holidays or in a mad rush to complete a project by the end of the year. Nevertheless, it is a time to...
View Article2018 Engineering Management Report at a Glimpse
A verdict on the impact of distributed work is just one insight revealed by Andela’s 2018 Engineering Management Survey. In today’s tech ecosystem, it doesn’t take much to spur the debate between the...
View ArticleHow to Build a 10x Team: 4 Tips From the Experts
The phrase “10x developer” is everywhere – whether you’re trying to become one, mentor one, or hire one, working with a person 10x as productive another team member sounds like a dream. The problem? No...
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How To Join Andela As A Software Developer
If you’re reading this, you’re either trying to get into Andela or you’re trying to get someone – a sibling or a friend – to join Andela as a software developer. This post will lay out the entire...
View ArticleAnnouncing Andela’s $100M Series D Led By Generation Investment Management
“The future is here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson We started Andela to chip away at a simple, though seemingly insurmountable, problem. The world needs millions more...
View ArticleTalks at Andela With Timirah James: Personal Branding for Developers
Talks at Andela held its third session on Wednesday, January 16, 2019, with Cloudinary Developer Advocate Timirah James as the guest speaker. It was the first time we would make the sessions open to...
View ArticleImproving Impact Amongst Engineers
IMPACT on a code base can be described as how your code affects existing code base. This can be measured by the number of lines you’ve added or updated, the number of files touched and most importantly...
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Solving For Hard Things: Femi Senjobi ‘s Developer Journey
Before joining Andela, Femi Senjobi worked as a freelance developer, digital marketer, and content creator. “I worked mostly with WordPress. However, I build a number of applications from ground up...
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Doing Work That Matters: Rehema Wachira ‘s Developer Journey
Rehema Wachira is a software developer at Andela Kenya. In this post, we’ll be looking at her journey into software development and the work she does as a leading technologist. This is a transcribed...
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Joining Andela: Gordon Kisyake’ s Developer Journey
Before joining Andela as a software developer, Gordon Kisakye spent the first two years after getting his degree in software engineering working at a startup in Kampala. Even though he mostly built...
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Designing a Three-Tier Architecture in AWS
Introduction A three-tier architecture is a software architecture pattern where the application is broken down into three logical tiers: the presentation layer, the business logic layer and the data...
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Joining Andela: How To Use The Andela Home Study Curriculum
Getting into Andela as a software developer is not the easiest thing you’ll ever do. Our application process is rigorous and optimized to only let top talent get in. To get a sense of the odds, we’ve...
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