Writer, Speaker, Cloud Engineer, Survivor of Dev-Oops, Dockerfails and Kubernet-ish — #NoCode is the best code, #NoOps is the best ops
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✍️blog: thoughts on what happens in a hackathon for healthcare, how 100+ people from @1337FIL/@UM6P_officiel played founders, and where we can go from there🚀
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Meet Abdarazak
Here is an idea for him: Engineers4Yatama
each software engineer sponsors an orphan from #earthquakemorocco. $50/mo is a full scholarship for them, and a couple hours work in US/EU
we grow by taking ownership, solidarity is a long term commitment #GeeksForGood
ALT Abdarazak Abou Aalam's village of Moulay Brahim was devastated by Friday's quake.(ABC News: Tom Joyner )
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as announced on R&B today, the beta edition of "from Dockerfail to Dockerfile" is now available for, well... beta readers.
after 4 months, a dozen peer-reviews, +25k words, my ugly drawings, feels like being pregnant hhh
still more polishing to do, but it's for the GA edition!
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My 2016 TOP 5 devops tools
1. @docker swarm
2. @jenkins 2 CD
3. @traefikproxy
4. @graylog2
5. @portainerio
#MustHaveDevOpsTools - and U?
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first book sale in less than 24 hours, so humbled🙌
not gonna lie, the impostor syndrome is tickling, especially when you recognize the reader's email🫣
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.@geeksblabla @DevoxxMA @1337FIL @YouCode18 , lots of coders and developers died, there were also our community, sharing is caring👋
We have added a banner to our website, calling for the freedom of Palestine and an end to the war on the people of Gaza. You can read our founder @paulbiggar's statement at blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-s…
ALT Website banner saying "#FreePalestine. Read our founder's statement"
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Wow, 1.7k views in 4 days on our first Book Review🤩
Who said developers don't read?!
Seems @geeksblabla reached audience-fit 🙌
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been away from digital during one month, another kind of fasting.
not much happiness in this year's ramadhan, but more conscience, meditation and lessons on collective failures as humans.
side story: also joined IBM to help deliver their "super late important project", game on!
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dear 🇲🇦communities, no one dared to say "Palestine" yet?
sad, but no surprised: "welcome to join us, but please leave human rights outside our exciting group where we only share our love for tech with happy people".
we are not silos, we are humans, let's start acting like it🕊️
.@geeksblabla @DevoxxMA @1337FIL @YouCode18 , lots of coders and developers died, there were also our community, sharing is caring👋
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finally some sane awareness about digital privacy… reminder that our data is their worth.
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learn from the legendary #agile manager : "molat dar"
- she gives and never asks
- she listens to all nags
- she serves all the team, and is never served
- she is first in the morning, last in the night
imagine what she could do as an IT Manager
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« sale arabe de m**** »
achievement unlocked, finally got insulted after +40 yrs on earth ✊
thats the sound of normalizing racism in beautiful France. now people feel free to vocalize the lowest level of ignorance. cherry on the cake: it was a black mom of 2. go figure!
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if devoxx poland can stand with ukraine, how hard would it be for @DevoxxMA to post a devoxx.ma/palestine?
We are joining forces with a mission to help refugees from Ukraine.
Will you join us?
devoxx.pl/ukraine
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Tech conferences should stay out of political debates, it's counter-productive, especially with so many deaths involved.
It's like asking if Sahara is Moroccan.
Unless we recover professional neutrality , I WON'T be at the second keynote of #DevoxxMA, devoxx.ma/speaker-details/?i…
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BlaBlaConf keeps getting better and better
- new audience records
- coding challenge with prize money
and our new community hero @soub4i
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arabs: « let’s pick a modern name, make it sound european, just not… like us »
DHH: « let’s rename our Docker tooling to Kamal, because Arabs were great navigators and innovators »
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reading this, it feels so revolting to be illegally occupied for a thing as simple as an online page.
imagine people thrown out their houses and land, that’s infinitely more revolting.
support to all our favorites communities, online and in real life. 🕊️
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the only episode that your boss does not want you to watch 🤫
اجيو حضرو معنا في حلقة خاصة فين غنكتشفوا كيفاش يمكن التحول من شغف البرمجة إلى تحقيق أول ربح. تعرّف على استراتيجيات عملية لي كتنفع في إلهام ديال مطورين بارعين حول التسويق، المبيعات، وتسعير خدمات البرمجة. متزگلوهاش! نهار الاحد مع 8 و برطاجي مع الأصدقاء و الصديقات ✌🏼
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Hats off🎩to the millions of self taught growing in the shadows.
no followers, no certification, no shiny resume. just a slow computer and a crappy connection.
“No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets or how far you fall, the fight is always ON”
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no answer from legal team at Docker, the book cover is still valid, for now.
#writinginpublic #docker
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breaking: after 4 successful editions, BlaBlaConf largest online conference in Morocco keeps growing with a 50% boost in audience.
One of the most visible signs of the Kingdom's digital leap with experts in AI/Cloud etc.
@MezzourGhita @Ministere_TNRA @HespressEnglish @LeDesk_ma
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"kindness is viral", a personal story
😓friday evening, trains got cancelled and people started piling up on 1 same TGV.
👨👩👧👧a US family had their 2 daughters on the floor. as a dad, I insisted they take my seat
✨1 week later, dad sends gift card, his profile says @AnthropicAI
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back from Al Hoceima, a truly hidden gem ✨
fully remote work compliant: nice people, calm city, affordable stay and enough bandwidth to ship Docker images in the cloud. 🐳🌊
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to this day and age, rare guys like Ayoub stand up, armed with their passion, betting their everything for no personal gains, only to challenge the status quo.
they may be only 1%, but 1% is enough to make a change! so we owe them all the support it takes.🔥🔥🔥
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Apple Engineer Manager after 6 years of GraphQL: REST still a better fit for many cases
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normal freelance: commuting at +300kms/hr while reviewing inbox/tickets... and keeping an eye on experts.
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Meet Zackaria, a #selftaught developer, recently switched from civil engineering to Javascript!
"anyone can do it from home, with enough focus and discipline. no social media, no network. most helping features: my mentor, free resources and... always showing up!"
#BlaBlaConf
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they supported with innocence,
it's not even their flag!
who will support their penitence?
or is tech only about the swag🤔
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Gazan children raise the Moroccan flag ahead of the Morocco-France World Cup semi-final match.
#FIFAWorldCupQatar2022
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Eid Mubarak on this day of sacrifice, may the chains keep falling and the free keep standing🕊️
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All restaurant anti-patterns in one place: ugly, noisy, artificial and harmful. worst customer experience.
eating at WacDo is for colonised minds or famished survivors of a desert trip gone very wrong when every 7anot or ma7laba has closed.
🇲🇦🍔| Face aux annonces de boycott de la chaîne de fast food un peu partout dans le monde, McDonald’s Maroc 🇲🇦 réagit aux rumeurs.
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it's not 1999 anymore.
people must break the silos in their head.
💰must have skill for software engineers: entrepreneurship
👨💻must have skill for entrepreneurs: no-code
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staying close to positive communities, makes you grow! shoutout to @DevoxxMA @geeksblabla @BiztechMorocco
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🆕call to community: reference Morocco Solopreneurs in one list, more details soon.
nitter.app/i/lists/17211146430855…
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still standing with occupation? still “complicated”? still trading silence for a couple of dollars? it’s not too late to wake the human inside, it’s not too late to speak up 🕊️
Israel bombed Rafah displacement camps with 2,000-pound bombs over 60 times in 48 hours after ICJ orders.
It’s not war. It’s genocide.
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UPDATE: while the book is still in beta, 3 options
1. wait for stable version
2. apply as beta reader and get the book now (see link)
3. buy a copy now and get all future updates free forever
ps: starting monday, beta readers will receive PDFs by mail
djal.al/books/from-dockerfai…
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in startup lingo, it's called "product-market fit"🔥
while online streaming is... well, too virtual, and big tech confs are too distant, meetups are the missing unifying local communities: easier, faster and cheaper to organize.
one day, we'll have one meetup a month🚀
I honestly didn’t expect this number of attendees!
Thanks to everyone who made it to the @remix_run meetup, especially the speakers! ❤️
See you next time!
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Today, 4 software engineers armed with keyboards showed 70+ audience how they:
- picked a simple idea
- shipped a small SaaS
- made thousand $ revenue
- sold for 5 figure exits
- on 10$ / month budget
- from Morocco
- alone
That's the power of Atay & Tech🫖💻 #DevoxxMA
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imPRESSive resilience.
occupation killed his wife, children, friends and he keeps showing up. every. day. 💯
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Ten most popular cities for Digital Nomads in Africa:
1.🇿🇦Cape Town
2.🇲🇦Marrakesh
3.🇰🇪Nairobi
4.🇲🇦Casablanca
5.🇿🇦Johannesburg
6.🇲🇦Taghazout
7.🇲🇦Rabat
8.🇲🇦Fes
9.🇲🇦Essaouira
10.🇲🇦Tangier
(source: @NomadList) #AfricaExpertise #Digital #remoteworking #life #work
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🎟️Anyone up for a ticket giveaway for #DevoxxMA?
🚀Have a great SaaS idea? Thinking of contributing to our vibrant tech economy? Trying to launch a business as a solo software engineer?
💫Stay tuned, contest details incoming!
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meanwhile in the 2010s, big french meetups were happy to offer cold pizza and warm beer... what an upgrade :)
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some engineers in Morocco say K8S is derived from « kebertensa », which means the pain will go away while growing.
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Taking developer swag to next level with Tagrant museum… these shoes were quite popular at #DevoxxMA🕊️, who was it again🤔
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what do we want? #BlaBlaConf slides!
when do we want them? NOW !
calling all speakers and audience to contribute and cure the post-conference mini depression hhh
airtable.com/shrL5FFGsN9oYet…
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only the brave can complete the "SoulConvergence loop" and embark on the next stage 🎉 بَارَكَ اللهُ لَكُماَ وَبَارَكَ عَلَيْكُماَ وَجَمَعَ بَيْنَكُمَا فِي خَيْرٍ
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People asking to boycott @nginx because founder is russian: this is where #opensource shines. Download, compile and no. more. politics.
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current "learn and earn" routine, and you?
Sun @IndieHackers
Mon @PracticalAIFM
Tue @DevOpsParadox
Wed @startupspod
Thu @KubernetesPod
Fri explore anything non tech
Sat coding time!
mornings @hackernews @TheRegister
evenings newsletters/feed
nights books 📚
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real interview question, feel free to ponder: « explain why we should hire you and not pay for AI / nocode? »
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“how nocode is rocking the developers tooling and careers”
Tomorrow at 1.30pm, come grab one of these at IMIM 🤩🥳🎉
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It was easier than expected: EPUB format now available. Also applies to beta readers, will personally deliver them by mail. Thanks for your support🐳
djal.al/books/from-dockerfai…
@MIduoad @IbrahimMestadi @ilkouDev @__iamaf @boredabdel
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this was Ayah.
a fellow software engineer, freshly graduated from university.
whose DevRel will advocate for her? what was her sin? yea, heads down on the keyboard as usual.
Ayah Yasser Al-Muqaid.
Ayah, a software engineering graduate, competed for a job at the university. Ayah was spontaneous, loving life, and delicate.
"My little sister and my friend since childhood," her brother Abdulrahman said.
Continued..
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join us live in 10mins to unearth some bitter sweet truths of coding careers.
nothing like sharing personal failures after 7 jobs and 25 yrs of software engineering :)
من مور واحد الاستراحة قصيرة رجعنالكم باينيرجي جديدة بواحد الموضوع خفيف تقنيا ولكن ثقيل من حيث الموضوع والضيوف. الضيوف ديالنا لراكمو سنين ديال الخبرة عيجيو يشاركو معانا مجموعة ديال المغالطات لخصنا نتفادوها في المسار المهني.
باش تعرف معليك غير تكون في الموعد نهار الاحد مع 8
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This weekend experiment is sponsored by the Raspberry Pi 400:
- is it Dev friendly?
- can it deploy/manage clusters in the cloud?
- will it survive the startup toolchain?
Let’s find out and build something useful in the process!
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schizophrenia in tech: CEOs are fired for speaking the truth.
10 yrs serving startups at WebSummit, but big corps cancelled him because of this single post:
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standing crowd at #DevoxxMA with experts gems on the art of prompting by @el_ateifSara
you can say it’s highly anticipated when even other speakers are focused on the content 🎉
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Agile principle applied to #SoftwareEngineer: big career plan is risky and full of frustration. "small bets" are satisfying and full of lessons.
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ignorance is not acceptable: quick 1-min crash course on double standards #EducationMatters #Apartheid
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Some lies heard from various bosses
💰sorry, no negotiation, we have salary caps
👪we are a big "family" here
🤡work is so fun, it's like a party
🤗my door is open, anytime
Being your own boss solves many lies
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#BlaBlaConf Day 5 is packed with events and thrilling content, lots of opportunities to live-tweet one last day!
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✅principles on basic human rights
🧑💻certified tech bro: "nah, better wrong together than being right alone"
⚽morrocan football player: "hold my atay..."
🚨 Mainz officially terminated Anwar El Ghazi’s contract with immediate effect.
He was suspended, then re-included in the squad but mentioned again that he does not regret showing support for Palestine
Mainz now decided to terminate his contract. El Ghazi replied with this ⤵️
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big tech conf vs small communities: guess who's got 10x more reach with half the subscribers?
💡maybe start sponsoring online communities like @geeksblabla/@BiztechMorocco?
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when did the AI/ML frog leap happen? in Morocco, it was between BlaBlaConf 3.0 and 4.0
feels cool to sit in the noob seat with so much talent. the whole track is 🔥🔥🔥
hats off @oumayma_es_ @bakouchanouar7 @adiltouati @Nouamanetazi @redaelhail @Samyer_ Ali @bfaissal @Tahabsn
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they cry for an earthquake, but they look away for a genocide.
in world cup they hug, and on the graves they shrug
it’s not religion, nor politics, just the agenda of psychotics.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel just BOMBED the LAST CHRISTIAN hospital in Gaza, killing over 500 civilians.
As a Christian, I am heartbroken and shocked.
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awesome project by @NourOumousse bymoroccans.softr.app/
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"Technical writing from tweets to books" is ready🫖🍵
Why even bother with this topic?
✅the skill to beat 99% of software engineers
✅the process to succeed at writing in tech
✅the journey to master written communication
#blablaconf 08:30pm Friday Night (tonight)
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TL;DR for non-darija coders
- in a couple of years, coding will change radically, b/c AI, robots, $5 gigs
- 3 soft skills to outsmart : focus+expertise+vision
- "hidden level" -- build your own product
#nocode #blablaconf
Every Moroccan Developer out there! Go watch (or rewatch) this talk, NOW! piped.video/watch?v=VlTuikNK…
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On the road to @Docker meetup at #Casablanca, super stoked to talk and give back to the community. See you soon 🛫🇲🇦
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hey @IBM_France, your next hires are gathering in one place, would be a good idea to sponsor their meetup, just saying.
🇫🇷 si vous acceptez les p'tits vieux comme moi, vous serez etonnés par la relève, parole de DevOps
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Currently enjoying Agadir 🇲🇦, anyone up for a friendly “Atay&Tech” 🍵💻, feel free to DM 👋
Atay 🍵 and Tech 🧑💻✨
Thanks @geeksblabla for the gift this really made my day!!
#blablaconf #geeksblabla
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3 years ago, I attended my first #DockerCon at #Barcelona. Also took the “Docker Fundamentals” workshop. In Dec. 2018, I will be the one training people from F500 companies on “Docker Fundamentals”. Kind of Closing the loop in #DecemberDocker Thanks @Docker, thanks @solomonstre
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tonight we spill the beans about continous learning with @The_Mirak @OFettal @adiltouati and @AbdelmajidAned1 🎉
some personal metrics after 20+ yrs of continuous learning:
- total revenue growth : 500%
- job promotions : 7
- 1 semi-burnout
في هاد الحلقة غادي تكون عندنا مائدة مستديرة باش نستافدو من تجربة الضيوف في مجال التدريب المعلوماتي وكيفاش نبقاو نتعلمو ومسايرين الجديد في عالم التقنية
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#jobtip toxic management uses fake promotions to get more work done with same pay❌
here is a "minimal promotion" checklist
- appropriate budget and tooling
- increased compensation
- written acknowledgment
- public communication
otherwise, it's just chocolate medals🐒
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rule of thumb: if it's not in git, it doesn't exist.
Meaning: the future of Dev is 100% git
1⃣.dockerignore
2⃣Dockerfile
3⃣docker-compose.yaml
4⃣container-structure-test.yaml
5⃣.hadolint.yaml
6⃣.gitlab-ci.yml
PS: same for infra, no more clickops, git or quit
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Thinking of giving a free live webinar on the art of « slides » for tech talks like #BlaBlaConf:
- where to start with content
- timing and scheduling
- formatting principles
- types of story telling
- demos and code
- tooling and testing
The sooner the better!Who’s up for this?
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finished a 4-day evaluation marathon, getting some green 🫖to cool off...
Spoiler: BlaBlaConf 2022 looks even better than last year🔥
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🚩How "staying late at night" became a myth for "great worker"?
🙌Here is an easy experiment: break work shift to sleep and exercise.
🚀Experience shows counter-intuitive results: productivity goes up and total amount on keyboard goes down. #MentalHealthAwareness
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most inspiring encounter at IBM was Hafida, this young girl from Benslimane. if she can do it, anyone else can!
a 3-year software engineer with no citizenship and all usual biases against her (omg hijab!), but she was the go-to resource when the VIP customer needed L3 support 💯
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#blablaconf talk is tomorrow, one last joke on Platform As A Service:
How do you recognize happy and healthy developers? They all have the Sanitary PaaS
See you tomorrow! #SorryNotSorry #ihaveajoke
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nice pitch sir! not coming with empty hands though: we ll have giveaway of my book « from dockerfail to dockerfile » only for @alouane_med’s كومنمطي :)
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Kind reminder of open source alternatives to #nocode tools
Data (airtable) : @nocodb @baserow
Workflows (zapier) : @n8n_io @NodeRED
Authn/Authz (memberstack): MemberPrism2
All in one (bubble) @saltcorns
PS: Lowcode OSS too 💯 @retool @budibase @ToolJet @theappsmith @PrefectIO
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the promise to all developers: no more HR objections, impostor syndrome, casting errors. rise and shine 🚀 #DevoxxMA🕊️ ANAW is NOW hhh
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