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Introduction Oh no, another post about automation? Well, kinda. When we talk about automation in our industry we first think about deploys, continuous integration, delivery and so on. But, I won’t be talking about that today, it’s, let’s say, another...
Tsuru PaaS This article is about how a Platform as a Service, named Tsuru, allowed us to handle an increasing flow of applications, widely scale our infrastructure and reduce both costs and workload caused by our growth. With a short...
INTRODUCTION The internet has evolved a great deal since the first time I’ve access it with my 24 kbps modem. All flashy GIF are gone. Rarely I find these days, weird mosaic backgrounds or midi music playing jingles in Christmas...
*This is part of a guest post on Amazon Web Services Compute Blog. Want to secure and centralize millions of user accounts across Africa? Shut down your servers! Jumia is an ecosystem of nine different companies operating in 22 different...
Storming Teams In the early stage of team formation, normally shortly after a team is put together, it is normal to start noticing some conflicts or frictions between team members, maybe due to different personalities, different ways in working, inexperience...
During our experience releasing iOS apps, we already got them rejected a couple of times. The Apple review process is a pandora’s box. You never know when they will perform the review, who and how. When Internet mythology around Apple...
If you have a considerable amount of downloads and good reviews on your app, you might get eligible to be featured in Play store. But before, Google will review your app and they are pretty picky in this process. Here...
In recent years on Africa Internet Group there was a shift in the way we build technology solutions, Security came first. Our customers are our most valuable asset so we employ the best practices to protect their data. This is...
With a few years of experience with Scrum, by far the most obvious (easy to identify) and most consequent “adaptation” roams around the concept “ready”, especially teams that are transitioning or adopting Scrum and have no/low experience. I still remember...