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Handling Project Changes As An Engineer [I]

Handling Project Changes As An Engineer [I]

Dealing with feature changes, upgrades, and requirements is a regular part of an engineer's job. However, these changes can be tedious and affect your productivity.

Skills you need as a Product Manager

Skills you need as a Product Manager

Product Management might seem like rocket science, but it's all about creativity, teamwork, and making things happen! So, whether you're into tech, design, or strategy, there's a place for you in this exciting world.

Handling Project Changes As An Engineer [II]

Handling Project Changes As An Engineer [II]

In this follow-up to the series, I explore additional key strategies for ensuring work efficiency and customer satisfaction as an engineer.

What should I learn?

General Featured

What should I learn?

Individuals seeking to transition into a tech career in a technical role always ask me, “What programming language should I learn?” Personally, I'd recommend JavaScript or Python as my top 2 choices and I have shared my reasons below. Javascript: Javascript is the most popular programming language among developers in

Overfamiliarity

General Featured

Overfamiliarity

Avoid over-familiarity with your capabilities. Over-familiarity will cost you time, opportunities, growth and the greater version of you. Put your knowledge to work first then up-skill. Always juice out your knowledge base.

Debugging Kubernetes Services with Skaffold, VSCode & Cloud Code

DevOps Featured

Debugging Kubernetes Services with Skaffold, VSCode & Cloud Code

Debugging is arguably more of an art form than a skill, and even though it can be learned and perfected over years of experience, the one thing that's consistent is being able to open and train your eyes (including the third one lol) to see. However this requires a mental

Easy Kubernetes Development using Skaffold

Easy Kubernetes Development using Skaffold

As a developer or devops engineer, do you ever have issues running your multi services locally, especially when developing with kubernetes? Or are you one of those who just didn't bother because: STRESS. So, in essence changing directories and starting each service for "X" number of services before you can

Automate TLS/SSL Certificate Issuance & Renewal - Part V

Automate TLS/SSL Certificate Issuance & Renewal - Part V

This is the 5th and final part in our $65 Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean [https://iamchuka.com/tag/k8s-do-series/] series, you can goto Part I [https://iamchuka.com/kubernetes-on-digitalocean-coreos-for-65-part-i/] to read on how to setup your cluster if you haven't done so yet. There's also a video tutorial here [https:

Installing Helm Charts - Part IV

Installing Helm Charts - Part IV

This is the 4th part in our $65 Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean [https://iamchuka.com/tag/k8s-do-series/] series, you can goto Part I [https://iamchuka.com/kubernetes-on-digitalocean-coreos-for-65-part-i/] to read on how to setup your cluster if you haven't done so yet. There's also a video tutorial here [https://youtu.be/

Install Kubernetes Dashboard - Part III

Install Kubernetes Dashboard - Part III

This is the 3rd part in our $65 Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean [https://iamchuka.com/tag/k8s-do-series/] series, you can goto Part I [https://iamchuka.com/kubernetes-on-digitalocean-coreos-for-65-part-i/] to read on how to setup your cluster if you haven't done so yet. There's also a video tutorial here [https://youtu.be/

Add Persistent Volume Support Using DigitalOcean Block Storage - Part II

Add Persistent Volume Support Using DigitalOcean Block Storage - Part II

This is the 2nd part in our $65 Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean [https://iamchuka.com/tag/k8s-do-series/] series, you can goto Part I [https://iamchuka.com/kubernetes-on-digitalocean-coreos-for-65-part-i/] to read on how to setup your cluster if you haven't done so yet. There's also a video tutorial here [https://youtu.be/

$65 Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean - Part I

$65 Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean - Part I

This is a multipart tutorial and walkthrough on setting up a $65 kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean's droplets using CoreOS. It's mostly a manual setup until DigitalOcean releases their managed kubernetes service here [https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/]. There's also a video tutorial here [https://youtu.be/OrO6-4AWvD0] for those

Gitflow Workflow, Automated Builds, Integration & Deployment.

Gitflow Workflow, Automated Builds, Integration & Deployment.

Working with teams can be quite challenging if there is no process in place to review and check code before it is merged, or more importantly to prevent ominous code from getting to production. One…

DevOps automation & some tools we’ve come to love.

DevOps automation & some tools we’ve come to love.

Based on my work over the years, I have been privileged to serve as mentor to lots of exciting startups from across the Globe on the Google Developers Launchpad Program. While working with these startups and their products on using technology to build for scale, there has been a consistent ...

OpenApps

Update: Project is undergoing re-development A few weeks back, Intel — the smart chip manufacturer and giant — visited the CCHub to interact with developers, entrepreneurs & tech enthusiasts in the space. Somewhere during the conversation, a friend asked how Intel obtains research data concerning markets they intend to enter. The response was

Trade Transpiracy Hack

Trade Transpiracy Hack

And so I was approached by the CCHUB to enter the Trade Transpiracy hack [Nigeria]. The hack, which was a collaboration between CcHub, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and The Economist Intelligence Unit aims to provide Nigerian consumers with information on how trade-related costs and how trade barriers