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In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Abdelahad SATOUR, a developer, tech serial entrepreneur, and learner; Abdelahad has more than 31 certificates in the IT and business fields; during the episode, he shared with us his professional and personal experiences. Guests Abdelahad SATOUR Notes 0:00 - Introduction and welcoming 0:02 - Who is Abdelahad SATOUR? 0:11 - Studies and school activities 0:15 - Learning experience in high school and how to get the best of it? 0:19 - Abdelahad's first steps as an entrepreneur. 0:28 - The secrets behind his commitment and motivation. 0:58 - What is success for Abdelahad? 1:04 - Getting things done. 1:10 - Learning and get updated about tech. 1:16 - How to know what works for you as a learning method? 1:19 - How to be focused on your work? 1:23 - Why certifications? 1:30 - QA 1:50 - Wrap up and goodbye Prepared and Presented by Youssouf El Azizi

In the 77 Episode of GeeksBlaBla , We're taking a look at the landscape of Low Code / No Code technologies; These technologies are taking the world by storm, building a strong Hype around them, and expected to be an industry worth 23 Billion Dollars by 2023. Guests Djalal Mahmoud Ait Elkatab Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:09 - Why It took no Code / Low Code trends all these years to reach the mainstream? 0:16 - Can Microsoft Excel / Access considered as Low Code / No Code Platform ? 0:28 - What’s the current state of the Low Code / No Code Ecosystem ? 0:50 - Trends in Low Code / No Code Ecosystem ? 1:04 - What are the good practices to follow ? 1:09 - What are the opportunities for developers in a low code context ? 1:13 - Integration between Low Code / No Code Apps and Traditional Business apps ? 1:19 - Vendor Lock-In and Portability ? 1:27 - Are Low Code / No Code Apps ready for Production and Missing Critical Scenarios ? 1:30 - Low Code / No Code Apps longevity ? 1:35 - Wrap up and goodbye Links No Code /

Tech News & AMA #9 with our community members Ahmed, Mohamed and Othman. During this episode, we discuss the latest Tech News, Make it legal Ahmed's book and we answer audience questions about programming, community, new technologies, and much more. Guests Ahmed El Azzabi Mohamed Ez-zarghili Otmane Fettal Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:03 - NFTs 0:16 - 'Make it legal' book. 0:32 - Remote work future 0:50 - Job satisfaction and How do people end up loving what they do? 1:18 - OVH outage 1:30 - New Windows updates 1:37 - QA 1:51 - Wrap up and goodbye. Links \$69 Million for a JPEG File - The Wild World of NFT’s So Good They Can't Ignore You Remote.ma Make it legal StateOfDev.ma Prepared and Presented by Youssouf El Azizi

In this episode, we talk about Certificates in the IT field; why should you care? How will certificates help you in your career, the essential certifications you should have, and how to prepare for those certificates? Guests Abdelahad SATOUR Elmehdi Bendriss Hamza BEN AZOUZ Notes 0:02 - Introduction. 0:10 - Why should you care about certifications? 0:28 - Types of IT certifications. 0:38 - The best period to get a certificate ( junior or senior ) 0:43 - Certification vs open-source contributions vs blogging. 0:25 - How to say that a resource is behaving normally? 0:51 - Why are IT certifications so expensive? 1:03 - Is certifications from the learning platform worth it? 1:07 - Why some people/companies criticize certifications and interpret them as a bad sign? 1:22 - Certifications for beginners. 1:46 - How to prepare for a certificate? 2:07 - The most valuable certificates in Morocco. 2:28 - Wrap up and goodbye. Certifications Scrum en Management. (Foundation seulement) - Python, .NET, Java, PHP ou JavaSc

In this episode, we talk about Monitoring, what is it about, what to consider in a project roadmap, how to do it and its different types with our guests.. Guests Boualaid Zakaria Abderrahim Ouakki Aboullaite Mohammed Notes 0:02 - Introduction. 0:05 - What is Monitoring? 0:08 - When should monitoring take place? 0:11 - What do we need to monitor ? 0:22 - How we define KPIs - The indicators we need to keep an eye on. 0:25 - How to say that a resource is behaving normally? 0:43 - Monitoring Toolchain (ELK Stack , Prometheus and Grafana) 0:59 - What are the different types of monitoring ? 1:06 - Infrastructure Monitoring vs Application Monitoring 1:14 - What is Observability and how it differs from Monitoring ? 1:17 - What are the big benefits of cloud monitoring solutions VS in house monitoring solutions 1:23 - With the increase in compressed application life cycles, proper monitoring is critical in DevOps. How can we deal with it? 1:40 - Datadog demo 1:50 - Wrap up and goodbye. Links Distributed Systems Obse

In this special episode, we highlight the hidden category in Tech in general, Women and girls in tech in Morocco. The guests are students in IT & CS will share their experiences and their journey. Guests Maroua Ezouhri Siham Ben Daia Aicha Laafia Afaf Ridaoui Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:03 - How did you become interested in engineering 0:08 - What influenced you to pursue a career in IT 0:17 - What is it like to be a woman working in technology for you? 0:27 - How could you convince a random Moroccan girl to be interested in programming? 0:35 - Why we don't see many ladies involved in communities in Morocco? 0:50 - Is it true the is no wage difference between men and women working in Tech in Morocco? 0:53 - How can we help as a tech community to empower more WIT? 0:54 - Is it easy or hard to find a job or Internship 0:58 - Did you ever faced discrimination in a job interview where they prefered a man instead? 1:00 - Do you feel that women in technology careers face barriers not faced by their male coun

Tech News & AMA #8 with our community members Ilyas, Othmane, Mehdi, Otmane, and Mohamed. During this episode, we discuss the latest Tech News and we answer audience questions about programming, community, new technologies, and much more. Guests Ilyas Bakouch Othmane MANIAR Mehdi Cheracher Aboullait mohamed Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:05 - New Social Media Platform: ClubHouse 0:15 - The guy who hacked into PayPal, apple, MS 0:33 - Bitcoin: News, Energy, future … 0:43 - Jeff Bezos Steps down as Amazon CEO 0:50 - Some fact and opinions about Java and JEE 1:06 - Intro to Rust 1:13 - Lambda function and serverless 1:18 - Oracle java SE Certification 1:21 - Python compared to JAVA 1:24 - Remote Jobs with companies such as Toptal, xteam … 1:32 - Flutter 1:35 - Minimum skills that you should learn to start applying for a react job 1:40 - should i know compiler structure and language theory to be a good software engineer 1:46 - PHP 1:58 - Front-end vs. back-end 2:07 - Wrap up and goodbye. Links Depend

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Abdelfettah Sghiouar, Islam Abouelata and Karim Benzidane to talk about Data Centers. Guests Abdelfettah Sghiouar Islam Abouelata Karim Benzidane Notes 0:00 - Introduction. 0:05 - What’s a datacenter? 0:09 - How does the datacenter work? 0:17 - What are the criteria to build a data center? 0:24 - What job positions exist, and what people do? 0:36 - What are datacenter impact on environment? 0:44 - Should you care as a developer? 0:47 - Questions and Comments 0:55 - CNCF Casablanca Community announcement 1:08 - What are datacenters exist in Morocco? 1:09 - What do you think of the new datacenter in benguerir? 1:12 - Why are datacenters important for Morocco? 1:18 - What’s an ISP (Internet Service Provider), IXP (Internet Exchange Point) and POP (Point of Presence)? 1:21 - Why are datacenters important for Internet? 1:24 - What does it mean to have a home datacenter? 1:32 - What studies do I have to do to work in a datacenter? 1:35 - Questions and Comments 1:45 - Wra

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Taoufik Khamouli, Anouar Boukhatem and El Housseine Jaafari to talk about Databases, different types and, some advanced topics. Guests Taoufik Khamouli Anouar Boukhatem El Housseine Jaafari Notes 0:00 - Introduction. 0:06 - What do we mean by a Database? 0:10 - Why do we need databases? 0:20 - What are the different types of databases and why we have more than one? 0:39 - What are ACID properties, and why are they important? 0:51 - What is denormalization and, when we need it? 0:55 - What consideration to decide between database types? 1:29 - Open-source vs. proprietary database, Which one is better? 1:34 - What is Indexing and how to use it well? 1:37 - What is CAP theorem, and why is it important? 1:42 - What are the requirements to have High Availability & Data Replication in databases? 1:49 - What are Backup & Restore Policies best practices? 1:56 - Advice about Performance Optimization. 2:19 - Wrap up and goodbye. Links Books: Building Secure and Reli

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Taoufik Abbassid along with Mohamed Daoudi to talk about Python, how to get started with it and some of its perspectives. Guests Taoufik Abbassid Mohammed Daoudi Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:03 - What is Python and what made it so famous? 0:08 - Is Python 2 vs Python 3 still relevant ? 0:13 - Do you recommend beginners to start with Python? 0:17 - How to get started with Python ? 0:24 - Python in the job market. Job offers for Python in Morocco and outside. 0:25 - Is learning (panda,numpy,pyplot..pandas) enough to work as a backend developer? 0:26 - When to use and when not to use Python? 0:28 - Most known use cases of Python. In which use cases Python might be the best programming language to use ? 0:33 - Is Python Slow ? If yes can we make it faster ? 0:38 - Fundamental concepts you need to master before starting with Python. 0:43 - Frameworks & CMS used in Python for web dev. In which scenario use Django or Flask ? 0:46 - Why learn Python? 0:50 - Programmin

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Diaa Alhak El Fallous and Othmane Kinane, and we discuss Developer Productivity Definition, tools, and more things about it. Guests Diaa Alhak El Fallous Othmane kinane Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:04 - What do we mean with Productivity? 0:08 - How to measure productivity? 0:20 - What do we mean with Productivity for a developer working alone, and How he measure it? 0:30 - Does a predefined roadmap consider a developer’s productivity? 0:43 - How do you do to being consistent at work? 1:08 - How to manage the situation when you need more time to grasp the task's skills or feel that you won’t meet some deadline? 1:13 - What are the criteria to promote a person? 1:23 - How can a developer avoid burnout? 1:36 - Tips to handle distractions and to be more productive while working 1:54 - Wrap up and goodbye. Prepared and Presented by Meriem_Zaid Mohammed Aboullaite Otmane Fettal

Tech News & AMA #6 with our community members Abderrahim, Youssouf, Abderrahim, Otmane, and Mohamed. During this episode, we discuss the latest Tech News and we answer audience questions about programming, community, new technologies, and much more. Guests Abderrahim Soubai Elidrissi Mohammed Aboullaite Otmane Fettal Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:04 - New WhatsApp Privacy. 0:10 - Google Threatens To Shut Down Search Engine In Australia If Forced To Pay Publishers For News. 0:14 - Elastic Changes Licences for Elasticsearch and Kibana: AWS Forks Both 0:30 - The future of React & React Native 0:31 - Micro frontend Apps 0:43 - How to switch your career 0:46 - Parallel Programming 0:54- when we should start using ngrx 1:02 - Self-driving cars updates 1:07 - SEO 1:13 - pub/sub or RabbitMq 1:31 - Gatsbyjs for E-Commerce websites 1:33 - No-Code or low code trends 1:44 - What's the quality strategy used in the projects you worked on? 1:54 - What I should master before get started with devops? 2:04 - Deno.js v

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discussed with our guests Ali Lakrakbi and Saad Zabari what's IoT, its impact, Adopting IoT in Morocco, and more things about it. Guests Saad Zabari Ali Lakrakbi Notes 0:00 - Introduction and welcoming. 0:07 - What's the Internet of Things? 0:11 - Why the Internet of Things, and what is its impact on humanity? 0:19 - Around 4/5 years ago, IoT was trending, and then it started slowly to disappear. Why is that? 0:26 - What are the difficulties in creating a startup in the domain of Iot, and why don't we see many successful startups in that area? 0:39 - What is the impact of 5g on IoT? 0:43 - Rumors said that the vaccine would have a microchip; technically, is that possible? 0:46 - Is there any risk concerning the IoT, specifically because we are related to servers/cloud? 0:52 - What are the solutions proposed by manufacturers to ensure security and privacy? 1:15 - During quarantine, the community of makers and IoT enthusiasts were here, never than before were in the appoin

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discussed some ways to present your best self in a tech interview, how to answer common questions, types of interviews, best practices, and tips for better communication with the recruiter. Guests Hanae El Bouyousfi Diaa Alhak El Fallous Mohamed Ez-zarghili Mohammed Aboullaite Notes 0:00 - Introduction and welcoming. 0:08 - Types of interviews 0:22 - Things to do before and after the interview 0:29 - Types of technical interviews 0:52 - Tips for better communication with the recruiter 1:00 - How to prepare for technical questions 1:19 - QA. 1:46 - Tell Me About Yourself. 1:52 - Why Should We Hire You? 1:54 - Why did you leave (or why are you leaving) your job? 1:55 - What Are Your Greatest Strengths and Weaknesses? 2:01 - What are your goals? 2:04 - Can you talk about a technical challenge you faced and how you handled it? 2:06 - When was the last time you had a problem with a coworker? How did you handle it? 2:09 - Salary expectation 2:20 - QA. 2:43 - Conclusion and

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Aboulfeth, a tech serial entrepreneur who started his first business at the early age of 17. He dropped out of college at 21, became ICANN accredited at 24, attended the World Economic Forum at 25, and went to Harvard at 26 and Hajj and Burning Man at 27. Guests Aboulfeth Hamza Prepared and Presented by Hamza Makraz Mohammed Aboullaite

Tech News & AMA #6 with our community members Meriem, Youssouf, Abderrahim, Abdelfettah, and Mohamed. During this episode, we discuss the latest Tech News and we answer audience questions about programming, community, new technologies, and much more. Guests Abderrahim Soubai Elidrissi Abdelfettah Sghiouar Mohamed Ez-zarghili Meriem Zaid Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:04 - Biggest Tech News in 2020 and the impact of COVID-19. 0:13 - Google Outage. 0:22 - Google monopoly case. 0:35 - The worst-ever US government cyber-attack. 0:43 - New IOS 14 privacy policies? 0:54 - GoDaddy Employees Were Told They Were Getting a Holiday Bonus. It Was Actually a Phishing Test. 0:59 - Zero click venerability & NSO Group. 1:07 - SI and Big Data in Morocco. 1:12 - Bitcoin Approaching \$30k. 1:20 - What is a good backend tech stack to build a social media platform? 1:22 - Research labs in Morocco. 1:28 - SEO for react apps. 1:30 - React Native vs Flutter? 1:43 - Angular Universal. 1:50 - Rust and what kind of projec

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discuss with our guests Karim Mouhssine and Mohamed, who had experience in PhD before, everything about PhD and how to apply for it in Morocco. Guests Karim Benzidane Mouhssine Lakhdissi Mohammed Ez-zarghili Notes 0:02 - Introduction 0:03 - What is PhD, How long does it take, Objective of a PHD and How to apply for a CS PHD in Morocco ? 0:06 - Do you have any advices for choosing a subject and the supervisor? 0:09 - Advice for getting an additional funding if possible 0:12 - When you apply for a PhD in university, are you affected automatically to another institution? 0:13 - Is ther a precise time of the year when we can start working on our PhD? 0:20 - What are the objectives and responsabilities of a PhD syudent during his cursus? 0:32 - One of the requirements to aply for PhD is having indexed articles 0:38 - Do salaried PhD students pay subscribtion fees to PhD program? 0:39 - Any advices on how to write a scientific article? 0:42 - Different categories of academic

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discuss and analyze the results of stateofdev.ma with our guests and answer your questions about the survey. Guests Haytam Zanid Abderrahim Soubai Djalal Notes 0:02 - Introduction 0:05 - How important is it to have these kinds of initiatives? 0:20 - Overview 0:26 - Profile 0:53 - Education and Learning 1:22 - Work 2:00 - Technology 2:13 - Community 2:44 - Wrap up & Goodbye Links Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 State Of Dev In Morocco 2020 The State Of Software Development in Morocco 2019 State Of Dev project on GitHub Prepared and Presented by Youssouf El Azizi Meriem Zaid Mohamed Ez-zarghili Mohammed Aboullaite

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Mohamed Youssfi, one of the most famous university school teachers in morocco, we discuss his experience and IT education in morocco. Guests Mohamed Youssfi Notes 0:00 - Introduction and welcoming 0:04 - Who is Mohamed Youssfi ? 0:13 - Did you plan to be a teacher in your childhood? 0:22 - What is the secret behind a successful teacher? 0:30 - The story behind Mohammed Youssfi successful youtube channel. 0:46 - Why most of the tutorials are related to Java and JEE? 1:00 - Getting updated about the latest technologies? 1:10 - How to deal with the level of disparity between students? 1:16 - What do you think about the height of education in Morocco (IT)? 1:35 - Is diplomas important in IT? 1:51 - French or English for height school education ? 2:10 - The problem of researcher professor not working in technology in the market before teaching it. 2:28 - The State Of Dev In Morocco 2020. 2:48 - what the first thing you will do if you are the minister of education. 3:04

Ask Me Anything episode #5 with our community members and guests Youssouf, Abderrahim, Ouissal and Mohamed. During this episode we answer audience questions about programming, community, new technologies and much more. Guests Abderrahim Soubai Elidrissi Ouissal Moumou Mohamed Moumou Notes 0:01 - Introduction. 0:04 - How have you heard about Facebook Developer Circles Community Challenge? 0:05 - What was the submitted tutorial/project about? 0:08 - How have you decided to start your Open Source journey? 0:12 - What were the challenges that you have faced while working on the Facebook Developer Circles Community Challenge? 0:15 - What were the tools that you have used to train your bot? 0:16 - How do you manage working while being a computer science student? 0:17 - What is like to be a student at Al Akhawayn University? 0:19 - What are the access options to Al Akhawayn University? 0:20 - What can you tell us about the events that take place in Al Akhawayn University? 0:22 - Can you choose courses in Al Ak