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A flaky test teaches your team to ignore red builds. That is far more dangerous than the bug it was meant to catch. Common …
Priya Raman
Sep 30 · 1 min read
If leadership loses trust in one dashboard, they stop trusting all of them. dbt tests are the cheapest insurance you can buy. Start with …
Esther Nakato
Sep 29 · 1 min read
In many clinics the network disappears for hours. Software that needs a connection to save a patient record is software nobody can use. Local …
Aminata Kone
Sep 27 · 1 min read
I started building websites in a Lagos cyber café. Ten years later I lead frontend architecture for a London product team. A few things …
Chidi Okoro
Sep 25 · 1 min read
Security reviews that arrive after the code ships create resentment. Guardrails that run in CI create habits. Check the plan, not the cloud Policy …
Youssef Benali
Sep 23 · 1 min read
Clickops works until the second environment. Here is the smallest pipeline that gives you reviewable, repeatable infrastructure. Remote state Store state in a storage …
Jean-Paul Mugisha
Sep 21 · 1 min read
You don't need a giant model to help a farmer decide when to plant. You need good data, honest evaluation and something that runs …
Samuel Tesfaye
Sep 18 · 1 min read
Money systems fail in boring ways: double processing, partial writes and balances that drift. Three rules keep ours honest. 1. Append, never update Every …
Lindiwe Dube
Sep 14 · 1 min read
Our pager used to go off for CPU spikes nobody cared about. Customers noticed outages before we did. SLOs fixed both. Start from the …
Grace Wanjiru
Aug 8 · 1 min read
Smart contracts are unforgiving: there is no hotfix after deployment. This is the checklist we run before mainnet. Before writing tests Write down every …
Fatima Al-Rashid
Jul 30 · 1 min read
Search boxes that fire a request on every keystroke waste bandwidth and make results flicker. A tiny hook fixes it. Why the cleanup matters …
Emeka Nwosu
Jul 22 · 1 min read
Most API performance problems are not framework problems. They are query problems, pagination problems and "we never measured it" problems. 1. Paginate everything Use …
Adaeze Okafor
Jul 17 · 1 min read