The Cloud In Africa with Hiren Patel and Dale Humby

In the seventeenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Hiren Patel and Dale Humby, two Google Developer Experts who live and work in South Africa.

About Hiren

DevOps engineer with a long history of system administration. Currently spending all my time doing a mix of backend development on GCP with python, web frontend development, and some android mobile work.

About Dale

Electro-Mechanical engineer turned software developer, now leading the product development team at Nomanini, building point of sale terminals and a financial backend to provide low cost access to payment for emerging markets.

Cool thing of the week

We will be at GCP Next, with our mics! So come by and say hello. We’ll be doing short interviews with people, and talking to them about the podcast.

Also, make sure to check out GCP Next Extended, if you can’t get to San Francisco for the event.

Interview

Resources:

• The Save-Data client hint request header docs
• The data trap: affordable smartphones, expensive data blog
• Internet in Africa wikipedia
• Introduction to Service Worker blog
• A collection of tools for service workers github
• Material Design Lite docs
• YouTube Red offline for free in South Africa blog
• IPv4 usage around the world image

Question of the week

• Firebase Announcing Mobile Offline Support blog
• Firebase iOS Offline Capabilities docs
• Firebase Android Offline Capabilities docs