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 the cognitive complexity on the changes you’ve added. Generally, engineers’ impact can be affected due to many external […]
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 developers and other attendees outside of Andela. After successfully organizing two previous sessions, it felt more fitting to open up the […]
A lack of diversity and a shortage of qualified candidates are two of the top hiring challenges identified by 36,000 engineers in a 2018 survey by HackerRank. To overcome these challenges and tap into a global talent pool, many companies are going distributed. After publicly committing to diversify their engineering team, Gusto embraced the distributed […]
“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 developers than we currently have. Time and again, we’ve seen the leverage created for companies and countries by great engineers. But over the past […]
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 one knows what traits truly make a developer 10x. Bradley Scott, VP Product at Andela, interviewed 3 technology leaders on […]
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 celebrate and reflect on the year that is coming to an end. While it’s easy […]
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 mobile phones have become more powerful than the computer NASA used to put a man on the moon and it gets better by the day. In the nearest […]
The demand for blockchain engineers continues to soar despite what appears to be a dwindling buzz around the technology. News coverage and ads around blockchain technology may not be at the fever-pitch level of 2017, but the technology has since displayed a level of resilience that virtually ensures that conversations about it never quite […]
You’re 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, the idea that leaders can scale their teams by hiring only senior developers is a myth. For your team to truly scale successfully, […]
Due to the need to provide continued engagement beyond the program period, Andel partnered with Pluralsight, a learning platform providing useful training content to launch grow with Google scholarships that trained 10,2744 qualifying applicants in Android and mobile web Google in partnership with Andela and Pluralsight launched a Grow with Google Scholarships program to train […]
The second edition of Talks at Andela held on November 14, 2018, with Brian Douglas, developer advocate at GitHub, speaking on Improving Your Developer Workflow With GitHub Apps. Brian’s talk, which spanned about an hour focused on two main apps – Probot and Actions. Probot is an open-source pre-built app that triggers actions by listening to […]
AndelaSparkARHackathon: Create Experiences using Facebook’s Spark AR Studio. How can we create localized AR experiences using Spark AR Studio?Augmented Reality, a.k.a AR, is an emerging technology that has been on the rise in the recent past. With Spark AR Studio, you have the platform to create interactive reality experiences with or without code! On this […]
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 times, the answer you’ll get is about a management challenge or personnel issue. There’s the productive developer who isn’t a team player. […]
There’s an age-old debate on the merits of being a “10x programmer”, i.e. a developer who is 10 times more productive than his or her peers. However, technical leaders now understand that a 10x developer isn’t about an individual’s productivity, but rather their ability to make 10 people around them better. In this on-demand webinar, […]
More often than not, as a Community Manager at Andela, tech managers, startup founders, developers, and technology enthusiasts approach me with one critical question in mind, What skill set should a software developer have?” At Andela, we believe that developer skills can be categorized under two major groups – Work skills and Team skills. Work […]
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 released a report on “Verification, Duty, Credibility: Fake News and ordinary citizens in Kenya and Nigeria” that highlighted what ‘fake news’ really is, […]
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 Tanzania. M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdraw, transfer money and pay for goods and services (Lipa na M-Pesa) easily with mobile devices. M-Pesa has spread quickly like […]
AndelaNewsHackathon: Fighting fake news using technology. How can technology be used to fight fake news online and on social media?Fake news has become a disruptive force in societies around the world. While advances in technology have enabled faster, easier access to information, they have also provided avenues for the spread of false news. Examples are […]
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 aspiring technologists will benefit from the Grow With Google Scholarships program for Android and Mobile Web. This opportunity is also open to Developer Student Clubs, […]
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 Developer Survey ranked it as the most loved Framework, Library, and Other Framework On its website, React is defined, quite simply, […]
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 Expedia Group, and he shared insights on how to get unstuck when one hits a rut either in their career or personal […]
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 feedback immediately. In an agile environment, design cycles i.e gathering user requirements, researching and finally documenting everything, are often marred with […]
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 the fellowship: Endings are often characterized by sad and/or mixed feelings. This is different. Last month saw the celebration of the completion of the […]
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 before. This June, at the Great Place to Work Awards, we ranked number one (#1!) across the board: Best Company to Work […]
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 are both tech leaders who are doing amazing things. Now, how about the women leading Nigeria’s tech industry? You may […]
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 challenges — while there may be some we’ve overcome alone, most of us have had support along […]
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 awesome developers is the first peek at what the Andela Fellowship is about; their stories will form the foundation for […]
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 quo, and a burning desire to contribute to the world as best as she could. Not long before Purity became an Andela developer, […]
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 senior developers at Andela. Participants register ahead of the events and get invited to attend. The host of the workshop was Temitayo […]
Managing infrastructure resources is a tedious task. In this workshop, we will be explaining how to manage infrastructures like you manage code and how to automate the deployment of your infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible and CircleCI. We will be covering the basics of DevOps, AWS, Ansible then Dive Deep into terraform. It will be opinionated […]
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 containers. Before containers, applications were built and deployed on virtual machines – and there are people who still use virtual […]
The average coder’s work isn’t particularly fraught with moral dilemmas or questions bordering on ethical consequences. Unless what they’re building is a product or service that directly impacts the quality of life of the users of said product or service. As technology products pervade our way of life more and more, it is increasingly apparent […]
Everyone has a different definition of what makes a good developer, but for many hiring managers today, there’s growing consensus that technical knowledge will only get you so far. A combination of both IQ and EQ is what truly makes a 10x impact on a developer team, not the # of lines of code […]
On August 3, 2018, Andela’s Technology team premiered Hackdays – an exercise that allows our engineers to take a 24-hour break from everything to break things and hack away. As odd as that may sound, it is every bit an invigorating experience for everyone involved. We take pride in the creativity and ingenuity of our […]
The Inaugural Andela Uganda Developer Conference unpacked the day’s theme “Powering Today’s Teams”. With an aim of igniting and re-fuelling the passion of techies to continue building solutions that solve for both local and global problems, Andela opened up it’s doors to 100 top technologists in Uganda’s tech ecosystem and diverse tech influencers in the […]
The future of work is digital. By 2020, the IT industry is projected to grow by 50 percent. And it’s increasingly clear that local talent will not be sufficient to power this rapid growth. US colleges graduated 23,000 students with a Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer sciences in 2013 — less than half of […]