Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Recorded June 22nd, 2017

Topics

• How do you vacation
• Shift announces an upgrade path from Laravel LTS 5.1 to 5.5
• Cisco claims it can find malware in encrypted data
• Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
• Uber adds tipping
• Google Maps - Mars
• How hackers can steal your 2FA email account

John Lewis is the Director Business Partnering at Rockwell Automation. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, taped at the Internet of Things World Forum 2017 hosted at London's Tobacco Dock (creaking floorboards and all), John talks about how his company is adapting to changing times by drafting software developers and tech-savvy business specialists who can speak to the myriad of optimisation challenges faced by their clients all over the world. He also rebuffs the widely-held belief that the global trend towards aggressive factory automation is destroying livelihoods.

The Sub-Saharan Africa heads of the likes of Huawei, Oracle, Cisco, IBM and perhaps even Amazon, Facebook and Google, have no doubt already booked first class tickets to Lilongwe to advise the Malawian government on what to do with the $72.4 million line of credit the country has secured from the World Bank to "help Malawi build the digital foundations needed to help the country connect to the global digital economy". This development comes in the wake of the World Bank resuming "budget support financing" for Malawi in May 2017 after a four-year hiatus. In this African Tech Round-up, Musa Kalenga and Andile Masuku discuss some of the things that Malawian policy-makers ought to prioritise as they engage with potential technology partners. News like this helps contextualise some of the sentiments expressed by David Meads, Cisco's Africa business head, in a recent IoT-focussed chat he had with Andile, in which he highlighted his organisation's commitment to assisting African governments with their digital transformation efforts. Heads up... This episode was taped before Uber announced that Travis Kalanick would be stepping down as the company's CEO, so Andile and Musa didn't take that more recent piece of news into account when discussing Uber's travails. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Topics covered in this episode:

• [more] TinyMongo
• A dead simple Python data validation library
• PuDB
• Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub
• Changelogs
• Understanding Asynchronous Programming in Python
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/31

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.