Hackathon finds solutions to workplace biases

GirlCode has announced the winners of its women-only hackathon, which encouraged teams to find solutions for workplace biases against women. The GirlCodeHack took place last weekend in Johannesburg, at 22onSloane with 50 aspiring female developers girls participating...

Unlocking the value of Kubernetes

According to research, Kubernetes is predominantly for people who build platforms with almost a quarter of respondents citing that they are DevOps engineers. By Muggie van Staden, CEO of Obsidian Systems This is hardly surprising given how it has become an integral...

Making low-code solutions accessible to SA businesses

A recent partnership between Clevva, Blue Prism and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making customer service automation more achievable for local businesses. Combining UK-based Blue Prism’s digital workforce technology, Clevva’s query resolution automation...

PMI launches multi-channelled e-learning solution

Digital transformation takes a team, but many IT decision-makers say the biggest challenge to digitally transform their business is a lack of software developers. That’s where the power of citizen development comes in–with no-code/low-code platforms,...

African girls want to enter STEM fields

The Vodacom #CodeLikeAGirl initiative is growing in popularity and is starting to inspire more young girls to enter the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. While this year’s instalment of the #CodeLikeAGirl programme only had space...

DevConf returns in 2022

The anticipated return of DevConf, a conference dedicated to South African developers, means that once again software developers can gather in person to network, and be inspired by a range of topics applicable to software development. Run as a virtual event in 2020,...