Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Recorded: June 15, 2017

Topics

• Discuss the SDPHP Framework Meetup
• The influx of local San Diego Tech groups shutting down.
• Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs - Stack Overflow Blog
• Laravel Package Auto-Discovery
• The value on the PHPUgly Pin goes up.
• MySQL Replication issues.
• Different code editors

Anton Jooste is Dimension Data’s Global Director for the Internet of Things. In this chat, he contextualises the promise of IoT for African enterprises and citizens, and candidly outlines what's at stake if Africans don't prepare themselves to participate in the new digital economy.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Problems and Solutions are different at different scales
• Introducing NoDB - a Pythonic Object Store for S3
• Elizabeth for mock data
• What’s New In Python 3.7
• * Hypothesis Testing*
• Heroku switching default to v3.6.1
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/30

Prathap Dendi is an engineer-turned startup executive with over 15 years of experience in technology leadership positions in companies ranging from startups to giants. He is currently the general manager for emerging technologies at the application performance management and IT operations analytics start-up AppDynamics, which Cisco recently acquired in the US for a whopping $3.7 billion. Prathap hails from the South of India and in this conversation he shares insights regarding how technological innovation, not least IoT, might be wisely harnessed to deliver life-changing solutions to the world’s poorest populations.

David Meads has lead Cisco’s Operations across Africa since 2012 and is responsible for the company’s go-to-market strategy across the continent as well as the field execution of that strategy. As Cisco’s VP for Africa, David is responsible for how Cisco partners with African Government’s and private sector companies alike to help them define and implement Digital strategies that will help them unlock the full potential of the "Internet of Everything". In this conversation, David explains how his company hopes to ensure that the trend towards IoT adoption delivers value for the average African citizen.

This week's African Tech Round-up is dedicated to sharing insights gleaned from the recent Internet of Things World Forum (2017IoTWF)hosted in London. The Global IT and networking giant, Cisco, convened the invite-only gathering to facilitate dialogue among key stakeholders and innovators in business, government and academia and to “bring industry leaders together to collaborate, network, partner and solve the challenges facing IoT”. To ascertain how the trend towards IoT adoption is likely to impact African enterprises and citizens alike we caught up with Dimension Data’s Global Director for the Internet of Things, Anton Jooste, David Meads, who heads up Cisco’s Africa business, Prathap Dendi, who is the general manager for emerging technologies at the application performance management and IT operations analytics start-up AppDynamics, as well as Alan Griffiths of Cambashi-- an analyst specialising in industrial IoT, cloud computing, and their effect on the technical software applications market. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Special SRE takeover! David and Ilana are joined by Tom Limoncelli, Mark Henderson, and Jason Harvey from the SO site reliability team to discuss the infrastructure and maintenance of the Stack Overflow sites. Plus, we're hiring! https://stackoverflow.com/company/work-here

Recorded June 8th, 2017

Topics

• WWDC 2017
• PHP Internals Book
• Open-Source License for Seeds
• PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 1 Released