Building business software in East Africa means dealing with two hard operational facts. First, the Kenya Revenue Authority requires every business invoice to carry a digital fiscal signature and a ve
Building managed multi-tenant infrastructure for Odoo in Kenya comes with a unique set of engineering challenges. Beyond handling high uptime and container orchestration, local SaaS platforms must int
Hello there! 👋 In this article, I'm going to share a method I've been using to create and manage virtual machine (VM) development and testing environments. By combining Vagrant, Libvirt, and Ansible, we can eliminate the inefficiencies of manual VM ...
We have normalized a dangerous standard in modern web development: paying hundreds of dollars a month for infrastructure before acquiring a single customer. We build distributed systems for simple problems. We rent our identity, our data, and our com...
This is a submission for the Amazon Q Developer "Quack The Code" Challenge: Crushing the Command Line. What I Built I created the FastAPI Scaffolder CLI – a zero-config generator for production-ready FastAPI apps. It solves common pain points: 🕒 Sa...
Happy new year all 🎉, It's been a while since my last post. I am currently enrolled in a full-time course hence the lack of time. However, I'll try to do better in regards to getting a schedule in place. Introduction Recently, we were tasked with se...
Introduction Welcome to the friendly world of Linux! If you’re curious about how this powerful operating system works, you’ve come to the right place. This article is packed with common questions and easy-to-understand answers that will help you get ...
I'll be the first to admit it: as a developer, I've often felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of tech news and trends out there. It's like trying to drink from a firehose! But about a year ago, I stumbled upon a tool that has completely transformed ...
Background I was recently studying for and completed the CISCO CyberOps Associate certification. One of the labs required me to use a security VM in OVA format. I wanted to convert the OVA file to Qcow2 format to use it with Qemu, a popular open-sour...
