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How I Archived Our Legacy AWS Setup and Got Ready to Cut All Bills to Zero
We recently migrated AgriHerd (our agri-ecommerce platform) from AWS to a Contabo VPS with Docker Compose and GitHub Actions. The old infrastructure, an EC2 instance, RDS database, and ECR repository — was no longer being used. It was time to shut it down to avoid any surprise AWS bills. But I didn’t want to just…
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Fintech Payment Integration in Africa: A Developer’s Guide for 2026
Why Payment Integration Is the Make-or-Break Feature for African Digital Businesses Here’s a number that should stop every Nairobi entrepreneur in their tracks: over 60% of Kenyan online transactions are abandoned before completion. Not because customers don’t want to pay — but because the payment experience is clunky, confusing, or doesn’t support the method they…
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Data Analytics and Business Intelligence: A Practical Guide for Kenyan SMEs
Your Business Is Already Generating Data — Here’s How to Use It Your business generates data every single day. Every M-Pesa transaction, every customer inquiry on WhatsApp, every sale, every return — it’s all data. The question isn’t whether you have data. The question is whether you’re using it to make better decisions. For Kenyan…
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Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps: A Practical Guide for Nairobi Businesses
If you run a business in Nairobi, you have probably already felt the pressure. Your website slows down during peak hours. Deploying a simple feature takes two weeks because your developer is manually configuring servers every time. When traffic spikes — maybe your product gets featured on a morning show or trends on X —…
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API Design and Microservices Architecture: A Practical Guide for Kenyan Tech Companies
Why Kenyan Tech Startups Need to Think About APIs Before They Write a Single Line of Code Here’s a scenario that plays out every week in Nairobi’s tech hubs. A brilliant team builds a killer app — maybe a logistics platform, maybe a health-tech solution. It works beautifully as a monolith. Then scale hits. They…
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How Vital Digital Media Built an AI-Powered Lead Generation Engine Using Kenyas Public Tender Data
Victor Karanja · May 23, 2026 · Lead Generation, Automation, Kenya Every day, the Kenyan government awards contracts worth billions of shillings to companies across the country. These are companies that are actively growing, have fresh budgets, and need to deliver results — which means they need professional web design, SEO, and digital marketing services.…