Celestine Omin
On Software, life and everything in-between
So you want to outsource your product engineering?
In the last couple of days, there have been many talks about developer brain drain and capital flight from the Nigerian tech ecosystem. I’m mostly going to focus on the latter. In the life of a new technology startup founder, a lot is happening; getting that MVP into the hands...
Docker Hack: Prune those unwanted stuff.
I have been meaning to do this for a very long time and today, I overcame inertia. This is a first in, hopefully, a never ending series that I have aptly titled bits. The aim of these series is to share my discoveries, hacks and shortcuts with everyday tools that...
Iptables: An Introduction
Server security is one of the tiny elements in application development that cannot be ignored. It can make or mar you. As such, giving adequate attention to it cannot be overemphasised. In today’s world where hackers derive delight in taking down full service or data centres, it becomes important to...
2016: Obligatory year in review
I’m late to the party, I know, but this isn’t a me-too article. This, in many ways, is a reflection and thanksgiving. This is my first post for 2017, so it makes sense to recap my 2016; both the high points and the low. 2016 was a great year, monumental...
Building the African Software Engineering Ecosystem
In Steve Case’ book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision for The Future, Steve outlined the different waves that defined the Internet and laid the foundation for the explosive technological innovation that we experience today. The first wave — building the internet — , which lasted between 1985 - 1999,...