Every week, I see at least 10 tweets from job seekers asking for jobs. And every time I see these tweets, I think to myself, will I hire this person? These tweets, most times seek to be sympathy based instead of value based. There’s also an interesting pattern to these...

Picture credit: Pivotal Labs office, Sydney. A few days ago, someone on Twitter asked me this question “What skills do you wish you had as a beginner software developer?” When I saw the tweet notification, it got me thinking. I asked myself, “Celestine, given where you’re now and what you...

Disclaimer - this is a direct compilation of a twitter thread I made. No edits whatsoerver made here. Cornelius Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt started his rail empire by borrowing $100 to buy a small ferry boat, he quickly earned the reputation of a shrewd businessman. He always got ahead by any...

We started that Sunday, December 4th, 2016, like any regular day. Your mum and I — just the both of us — were preparing for the 8:00 AM service. She had barely stepped into the bathroom when she called out, “babe, I don’t feel good and besides, I can see...

In Part I, I introduced you to the concept of IAC(Infrastructure as Code) using Terraform, and we explored the awesomeness of Terraform. While the code we used in Part I for provisioning a simple server worked very well, the system we eventually provisioned was hardly a scalable system and not...