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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Dana Jones of Fractured Atlas “Andela works with companies around the world, scaling their engineering teams with full-time devs – Fractured Atlas is one of those companies. Dana, Software Engineering Lead at Fractured Atlas talks about their experience as a 100% remote team.” At Fractured Atlas, our Engineering team is 100% remote. While we […]
At Andela, when the occasion serves us, we know how to put together a party. It’s easy to think that our developer conferences (which occasionally happen at all our locations) are the only fun events we have. After all, we’re an organization comprised mostly of software developers and technologists, aren’t we? We also throw down […]
Seun Agbeye’s journey into software development began where many young people’s dreams begin: a Hollywood blockbuster film. Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible franchise was all the rave, and Seun – like many other teenagers back then – was enthralled by the story. “I have always been obsessed with technology but I never knew what I wanted […]
I had a chat with Figma Design’s Head of Global Community, Claire Butler, in Lagos this week. She is visiting Nigeria and Ghana to facilitate the Figma x GitHub Design Hackathon scheduled to hold in Lagos and Accra. While it’s Claire’s first time in Nigeria, it is by no means Figma’s first rodeo here; this […]
When, on July 10th, Chinedu Daniel launched Overhaul, a Google Chrome extension he built, which automatically updates the look and feel of Nairaland.com – Nigeria’s premier online forum, the reception was near euphoric. Anyone who frequents Nairaland – and millions do so daily, has probably either wondered why the site’s user interface hasn’t got […]
Over the last half-decade, the number of young people in Africa embarking on a career path in software has been on the rise as a tech renaissance sweeps across the continent. From senior developers working full-time jobs or freelancing from the comfort of their homes, to junior and mid-level programmers honing their craft, the developer […]
High-performance teams (HPTs) is a concept of organization development referring to teams that are highly focused on their goals and that achieve superior business results. I have been intrigued by the HPTs concept since I started leading teams, and I have read a number of blog posts about this topic. However, the vast majority of […]
Andela, Google and Udacity came together to scale our programs to 17 africal nations via ALC 3.0. Having learnt how to manage large communities, provide personalised support and track learning in our previous programs, we felt it was time to expand and support over 15,000 scholars. The Results Testimonials Google scholarship(ALC 3.0) ALC 3.0 in a […]
Traditional architecture reviews can be hectic. A group of senior engineers who disagree on the best approach to take, and question the need for the Architect sitting across from them who supposedly has all the answers. Great engineers have strong opinions, which is a good thing. Diverse opinions in engineering teams can lead to great […]
After a successful pilot of the Android Learning Community with over 50% program completion rate, Google strengthened her partnership with Andela and Udacity to run a new program, the Andela Learning Community (ALC) 2.0 that expanded it’s reach and the number of tracks. The program sort to empower Nigerian and Kenyan technologists to successfully become […]
Layer’s VP of Engineering’s three rules to rock distributed Thinking Outside the Cube is a series of posts that introduce unique insights from CTOs and other tech leaders at companies who have successfully implemented distributed models—a more thorough version of remote work—into their workforce policies. — Like many of its counterparts and competitors […]
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 is all necessary setup for the final piece in this series, where I’ll show you how to combine all this knowledge together to […]
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! Since 2016, Andela’s Developers in Residence program has given select Developers from Lagos and Nairobi an opportunity to […]
This is a multi-part tutorial by Kingdom Orjiewuru, an Andela Developer based in Lagos. By the time you finish reading this article, you should have a clear understanding of GraphQL types and schema to the extent that you can create them yourself. And if you’re an absolute beginner, don’t fret—think of GraphQL schema as just […]
This is a multi-part guest tutorial post by Moyosore Sosan, an Andela developer based in Lagos. We will be looking at local functions, the concepts of closure and what decorators are, sounds like a lot? Then let’s dive into it. Local functions Probably most functions you are familiar with are either defined in […]
This is a three-part guest tutorial post by Johnson Ejezie, an Andela developer based in Lagos. iOS app: From scratch to app store Part 1 What we will be building We will be using the traktv api to build a movie and tv show app. We will be figuring out functionalities to add to our […]
Last year I advised that we all abandon “sure,” and I pledged to give 100% to my work at Andela. This year, after both struggle and triumph, I’m renewing that pledge. Why? Well, it’s not just because I believe in the mission, my team, and our chances to impact the future of tech work and […]
More and more devs are using React, a Facebook and community developed JavaScript library, to craft the kinds of data-heavy, auto-uploading web apps that are used for things like making live social streams populate and render seamlessly. Featuring a multitude of native-use advantages, its use has grown markedly over the past four years, finding favor […]
