Holy Wars [E2]: AI Code Tools, Hype vs. Reality

DevCongress Echo [EP6]: Joojo Dontoh is a seasoned engineer and Technical Lead at BP

Show notes: Here's the article Joojo mentions in this episode... https://dev.to/joojodontoh/understanding-my-relationship-with-ai-through-the-lens-of-tam-368e Make sure to listen to the entire episode and drop a review for us... ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Holy Wars [E2]: AI Code Tools, Hype vs. Reality

DevCongress community slack is always alive with conversation, controversial like this one... Since it's all text on the channels, this is just a way to document and relive some of those fun memorable yet informative dialogues between experts in their domains. Enjoy! Show notes: The John problem: https://youtu.be/kqLz53z8Inc?list=TLGGIQSu8eemC6IyODA4MjAyNQ https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ Reuters snippets from a report by Anna Tong in San Francisco; Editing by Sonali Paul ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Holy Wars [E1]: Relational vs NOSQL - Postgres vs DynamoDB

What do you think? Roll with NoSQL or go with relational DB? Listen and decide, or perhaps the decision has been made already. In such cases, beware of potential pitfalls and prepare accordingly. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

DevCongress Echo [EP5]: Meet Chima aka Codekeyz, building a server in Dart

Resources: Follow codekeyz on twitter: @codekeyz Time stamps! Host/Editor: Nathan Sodja Creative Directors: Yaw Boakye, Elorm and Sam Eshun. Follow us: http://slack.devcongress.org/ [http://slack.devcongress.org/] twitter.com/devcongress [http://twitter.com/devcongress] http://youtube.com/devcongress [http://youtube.com/devcongress] main@devcongress.org [main@devcongress.org] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

DevCongress Echo [EP4]: Meet Bubu, a Senior Software Engineer and Devcongress Admin

Bubu is a stalwart of the DevCongress community, from organizing and hosting community events to mentorship, Bubu has done it all. Listen to him talk about his start and journey in this episode. Resources: Read Bubu's Blog https://www.5error.com/the-hard-truth-about-mentorship/ [https://www.5error.com/the-hard-truth-about-mentorship/] Time stamps! 00:00: Intro, Bubu's start into Tech 12:48: I just found computers fun 17:28: Tech then and now? 24:30: Ghana Tech Ecosystem vs Global 30:20: Why Tech got harder after COVID 33:50: VCs love Tech because it scales exponentially 43:40: AI, Is this the age of stackless engineering? 49:24: Are you a mature software engineer now? 51:21: Communities are valuable to your journey 01:02:00: Benefits of being a part of a community 01:20:00: Evolving the community to be more helpful and accessible 01:25:00: Supporting the community 01:28:00: Wrapping up! Host/Editor: Nathan Sodja Creative Directors: Yaw Boakye, Elorm and Sam Eshun. Follow us: http://slack.devcongress.org/ [http://slack.devcongress.org/] twitter.com/devcongress [http://twitter.com/devcongress] http://youtube.com/devcongress [http://youtube.com/devcongress] main@devcongress.org [main@devcongress.org] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.