Semantic Versioning vs Git commit hashing

As with all great software, we build our products and releases in the spirit of continuous delivery. It is akin to creating a picture memory of where your product was at that point in time - the SDLC snapshot. In the packaging of one of my projects, ...

The Value Chain Factory hackathon

Built by Africans and for Africans It’s been a week since we had our first hackathon here at Value Chain Factory. A week since we had a buzz of activity with young engineers teeming with ideas on how to create the next solution that would address Afr...

TechStartup weekend: The place of technology in Africa

I had the opportunity to participate in The #TechStartUpWeekend - a 3-day event aimed at bringing innovators from all fields and ages to participate in a challenge that would build solutions for Africa. During this time, I got to interact with the b...

Binary vs Interpolation Search

This guide acts as a follow-up to the talk Binary vs Interpolation Search. Time complexity and search algorithms. A walk through their definition, purpose, use cases and constraints. A search algorithm is a technique used to locate an item in a cert...

Going Enterprise and its Aftermath

I thought I knew what scalability was. Just the same way most of us thought we knew what distributed systems were. I realized I had to completely relearn these systems because of the cloud. ~Satya Nadella There are a number of considerations...

Vue Unit Testing: The Breakdown

So far so good. We have our application boilerplate and have successfully written our first test for the home page of our todo application. Next, we have to get through fetching, displaying this information and manipulating it. Let's use beloved axio...