Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

You might recall that in September 2017 the Cameroonian former Founder & CEO of Afrostream and current Chief Brand Officer of African Leadership Academy's Anzisha Prize, Tonjé Bakang, published a heavily-publicised Medium post in French announcing that his VOD streaming service was shutting down. Here is Tonjé's letter in English— translated by Audrey Lang: http://bit.ly/tonjéokayafrica. Our very own Andile Masuku even wrote a syndicated op-ed for Business Report South Africa (http://bit.ly/tonjeoped) celebrating Tonjé's decision to chronicle how and why his company failed. By founding Afrostream, Tonjé set out to capture the loyalty of an underserved customer segment that lay within the confines of a super-competitive streaming market. We’re talking a well-defended industry dominated by international rivals like Netflix, and by increasingly confident African startups like IROKO— the former reportedly spending something like €33 million on marketing alone in the first year they launched in France (Afrostream’s most important foreign geographic market). That tidbit should put into proper perspective, how very little the $4 million Afrostream managed to raise to fund its mission over four years actually is. In this conversation with Andile Masuku and Tayo Akinyemi - taped at Afrobytes Tech Conference 2018 - Tonjé details the ordeal of watching his entrepreneurial dream die and shares profound lessons about staying true to oneself, failing forward and engineering personal reinvention. Apply for the Anzisha Prize: http://www.anzishaprize.org/apply/

Topics covered in this episode:

• Python Patterns
• Arctic: Millions of rows a sec (time data)
• PyCon Australia videos
• GAE: Introducing App Engine Second Generation runtimes and Python 3.7
• I don’t like notebooks
• PEP 8000 -- Python Language Governance Proposal Overview
• - TIOBE jump https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/94

This month the team discusses prooph

Other topics include

• Design Patterns: Why Event Sourcing?
• What is event sourcing?
• spatie/laravel-event-projector
• swisnl/laravel-nova-mirror
• Standup Alice
• What’s New in PHP 7.3 (Coming Soon)

Topics covered in this episode:

• Replacing Bash Scripting with Python.
• pyodide
• The subset of reStructuredText worth committing to memory
• bandit
• Learn Python 3 within Jupyter Notebooks
• detect-secrets
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/93

This month the team discusses Steam for Linux :: Introducing a new version of Steam Play.

Other topics include

• Deep dive: Nvidia's RTX 2080 and real-time ray tracing explained
• GLB: GitHub’s open source load balancer
• Samantha Geitz on Twitter: "Have you ever wondered whether you've got what it takes to become a Laravel Elite? I took everything I know about these Cool Kids ™ and wrote a highly advanced algorithm to figure out whether or not you are Elite. Ch-ch-check it out! https://t.co/2PcRam9im7"
• Taylor Otwell 👨‍🚀 on Twitter: "I know I’m never giving anyone early access to anything ever again tbh."
• Laravel Elite
• More code comments

Congolese Jean-Claude Tshipama is the CEO of Eutelsat's Konnect Africa subsidiary which delivers satellite broadband connectivity services in Africa. Jean-Claude has over 16 years’ experience in telecommunications, computer and Pay TV industries’. He holds an MBA from HEC-Montreal in Canada and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Protestant University in Congo. Jean-Claude was formerly the Commercial Director at Celtel in DR Congo, and also previously served as Director of Sales and Distribution at both the Digicel Group and at the Microsoft Corporation's Africa business. Prior to joining Eutelsat, he was notably CEO of Canal+ in DR Congo, and he currently serves on the board of Equity Bank in Kenya. In this conversation with Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga - taped at Afrobytes Tech Marketplace 2018 - Jean-Claude discusses his new role at Eutelsat and shares some of the values that inform his personal and professional mission. Listen in to hear him respond to questions about his organisation's ability to remain competitive in the world's increasingly crowded satellite and broadband marketplace.