How To Deploy Your React App to AWS S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and...
View ArticleCrowdsourced Learning: Faith Ng’etich’s Developer Journey
How One Tech Meet-up Turned This Developer into a Public Speaker Learn how a Django meet-up during university led Andela developer Faith Ng’etich to learn programming, build tech communities, and...
View ArticleFive Ways To Onboard Successful Distributed Developers
If onboarding is something you leave to your HR team, think again. The first few weeks on the job determine how successful an engineer will be for the next few years, and the data backs it up: A lack...
View ArticleFour Simple-Yet-Effective Tips for Stronger Distributed Teams
Bradley Scott, Andela’s VP of Technology Product, has years of experience managing product and engineering teams of all types, so he knows the do’s and don’ts of remote work firsthand. Here, he shares...
View ArticleBuilding a serverless data pipeline
This is a summary note/transcript for the technical workshop held in Andela Nairobi in February 2019. OVERVIEW & PURPOSE The technology we use today has become integral to our lives and...
View ArticleYour Health, Dear Developer
You are one of luckiest people at this time (circa 2019) because your job is one of the top jobs of this era. You are the cynosure of all eyes and perceived to be the shaper of the future, you have a...
View ArticleFour Ways to Connect with Distributed Team Members
Collaboration and project management tools are things that almost all managers rely on when running a distributed team, according to a survey of 500+ engineering leaders. But too often, these systems...
View ArticleHow Will You Drive #BalanceForBetter?
From a record-breaking number of women receiving VC funding in Silicon Valley to the growing number of women earning technical degrees in Nigeria (the country with the 4th fastest growing developer...
View ArticleLevel Up as a Distributed Engineering Manager
If you ask engineering leaders to tell you the most challenging part of their role, most of them will say management. And these days — with companies building teams spread around the world and local...
View Article2019: Extending Andela’s Footprint
Earlier this year, in January, Andela announced our $100m Series D round. This was yet another symbolic validation of building a business with a purpose. Over the last four years, we have created an...
View ArticleHow to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Thrive in The Workplace
Emotional intelligence is currently the most in-demand soft skill, especially in technology. Top companies have realized that employees with high emotional intelligence are able to thrive in the...
View ArticleUsing GraphQL and Sequelize
Editor’s note: This is the first part of the series submitted by Benny Ogidan, one of the winners of the Andela Life Hacks Competition for March 2019. Ben is a software developer at Andela. Background...
View ArticleAndela Launches ALC 4.0 In Partnership with Google and Pluralsight
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Andela Learning Community 4.0 in partnership with Google and Pluralsight. The program will run for a period of 6 months starting from today 15th May...
View ArticleHandling Authentication With Google
Authentication is hard. Let Google Handle it for you. Handling user data is probably one of the hardest parts to get right of any application (web or not). There are just so many places for something...
View ArticleBuilding a Blockchain De-centralised Application (Dapp) with Solidity on...
This is a follow up write up from the recent workshop at Andela on building a blockchain decentralised application. An assumption of this blog is that you already have an understanding of what...
View ArticleAndela Welcomes Serena Ventures!
Earlier this year Andela announced raising a $100M Series D to continue investing in great engineers and building the infrastructure to power distributed work. As you may have recently heard, the round...
View ArticleHow To Fight Procrastination
Let’s, first of all, understand what this word even means before we dive into fighting it as a vice. I googled it and this meaning came up — “the action of delaying or postponing something”. Google’s...
View ArticleHow Headspace optimized customer experience
Headspace is a pocket-sized personal meditation guide that helps users achieve healthier, happier, more well-rested lives with less stress, fewer distractions, better focus, and enhanced compassion...
View ArticleA Few Unix Shell Shortcuts To Make You More Productive
Or how to minimize your mouse usage. “Code is read much more often than it is written.” — Guido van Rossum I think the same can be said for terminal commands except that we edit them more than we write...
View ArticleOwning Your Own Learning: The Software Engineer’s Journey
You own your own learning at Andela.It is not uncommon to hear those seven words (or YOYO) during your onboarding session when you start at Andela. It’s not just a mantra that people casually throw...
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