This is the moment you build for.
@unclebigbay143 shipped Buy Me a Malt on @Dbriij: domain, hosting, database, email and storage, all in one place, paid in naira.
He built something good and told people where.
Go and buy him a malt. 🍺
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Being good at what you do should not mean spending every day wondering where the next customer will come from.
The problem isn't always the skill.
Sometimes, it's visibility, trust and access to customers.
There are plumbers, carpenters, cleaners, makeup artists, technicians, caterers and other skilled professionals who can do an amazing job, but still struggle to get consistent customers.
Some depend entirely on referrals.
Some lose customers because they have no proper record of who they've worked with.
Some don't have a way to show people that they're actually qualified and trustworthy.
And for households, finding a service provider comes with its own problems.
Who is this person?
Are they actually a professional?
Will they charge what was agreed?
Will they deliver the quality of work promised?
And most importantly, is it safe to let them into your home?
@runbetaofficial is built to solve these problems from both sides.
Service providers can create a profile, get discovered, manage their customer records, receive bookings, access training and work towards earning a Gold Badge that helps them stand out.
Households get access to verified service providers, transparent pricing and a safer, more reliable way to book the people they need.
And for corporate vendors managing teams, RunBetta creates another channel to connect your workers with real service opportunities.
Your skill shouldn't stay hidden.
Your next customer shouldn't depend only on who you know.
Join the RunBetta WhatsApp Community https://t.co/oqn86kQds5
to get updates, opportunities, incentives and be part of what we're building.
Your work deserves to be seen.
Interviewed 2 Senior Backend candidates today.
Both knew REST, GraphQL, microservices, Docker and Kubernetes inside out.
Then I asked:
"How would you migrate a live production database with zero downtime?"
Silence.
What's your answer? 👇
You’d be in the UK looking for a senior front end or backend dev but because you can’t pay the rates there, you look for cheaper options and you remember Nigerian devs are equally good.
Now you offer them 200-500k naira to do same work you offered their counterparts there $2k and they refused. But yeah, Nigerian devs get “long throat” for not accepting such piss poor offer.
Obviously because of how bad things are here, you’d always find people lining up for such offer. But you’re a fucking idiot.
Your parents have been married for close to 30 years. You don’t see them as role models for marriage, but two social media couples who got married and divorced in less than two years are making you scared to get married. You see that you don’t have sense.
Your API just got 10,000 requests in 1 second
But most get rejected
How you reject them is the real test.
Here are the 3 rate limiting algorithms every backend dev should know 👇
I have 12 years of experience and working as a Principal Engineer @Atlassian and I have seen concurrency scaring the hell out of a lot of junior engineers.
It’s one of the most feared topics in system design & backend interviews — race conditions, deadlocks, thread pools… you name it.
But once you internalize these 20 must-know concepts, everything clicks.
Save this thread. Read till the end.
Your future interviews and production systems will thank you.