Elijah

I had options and I choose Software Engineering

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@chinedu_10 what do you think?

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

This is an interesting engineering experience I just had with a popular Nigerian savings platform.

I changed my withdrawal account. The normal withdrawal flow correctly showed my new account.

But when I tried to sell an asset, the platform showed my OLD withdrawal account.

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

My first thought: is this a database design problem, duplicated state, stale cache/read replica, or simply different business logic behind the two flows?

Either way, it raises an important question:

What is the single source of truth for a user’s withdrawal destination?

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@uttdkola This must be Harry Kane

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@peegzy1 I’m with you on the iPhone 11 part
But you see latest Mac, take my card 😆

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@DAMIADENUGA 😆

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@Jizelle_patriot Imagine if the tag on the toy was a business card for a pet related service 🫠

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@asher_kine You don’t have a PVC? 😖

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@timithechef @benln @olaorleans True, we have to use VPN to access the website

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@benln @TheOyinbooke Yooo 🤗

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@EemanBintSulaym Just watch out… other companies will start removing age and cert restrictions

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@EOEboh Here is another explanation of the concept

https://t.co/AK3KQHAES7

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@isocroft @lanreadelowo Store pepper when it’s cheap so when it gets scarce you sell and make profit 🫠

[Fatu @fatuogwuche]

I asked ELITE operator and ex-CMO of MTN @adiaspeaks about the G.O.A.T moment in Nigerian tech that made her think anything was possible.

Adia: "My G.O.A.T moment is not a popular one. The first company that got called a unicorn is @InterswitchGRP. They got an investment from Visa that put their valuation at a billion dollars.

Nobody talks about Interswitch enough. I think it’s because their products don’t seem as sexy as we’ll expect, so the hype is different.

That’s a company we should give a lot more flowers."

100% agree with this!

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@0x @Mochievous @kikimordi @grok what are they talking about on this thread

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@the_fxer That’s a hackathon not a sprint

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@gdgcloudlagos My experience with terraform: https://t.co/tZiPeKaAKu

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@precious_tagy Before you comment make sure you have atleast read or experienced the challenges outline in this book: Mobile Apps at Scale: 39 Engineering Challenges (15 Apr) https://t.co/IbGAhGqG9B

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

I clapped along

[DHH @dhh]

I swear we didn't plan this, but just today, we finally NUKED our entire AWS account at the 37signals company meetup! This followed moving out compute+dbs in 2023, then S3 this summer, and now finally the entire account is GONE 🎉

[Elijah @CodeWithElijah]

@dhh I clapped along