To restate its
commitment to the growing community of tech enthusiasts in Nigeria, Africa’s
leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, Interswitch sponsored
the Lagos Localhost Meetup held as a hybrid event on April 30, 2022.
The event serves as a
community-building platform for tech enthusiasts to discuss the possibilities
of cloud infrastructure and the adoption of DevOps in Nigeria and across the
globe.
Through its sponsorship of the event
themed, ‘Building to Scale’, the African technology payments giant consolidated
its investment in the Nigerian tech ecosystem and showcased its support by
providing its robust Application Programming Interface (API) infrastructure at
no cost to all interested developers at the meetup.
Asiya Yunusa, a DevOps Engineer at
Interswitch, while speaking at the event guided other DevOps engineers in
attendance on how to use the application, pointing out the API integration
platform had a feature that fosters community among developers.
Participants at the meetup, made up
of a mix of DevOps engineers, Cloud, and Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), were
treated to implementation protocols that are in continuous delivery with Policy
as a Code and Open Policy Agent, components of the API.
To ensure that the event was enjoyed
by developers unable to be physically present, the meetup was streamed live.
The Group Chief Marketing and
Corporate Communications Officer, Interswitch Group, Cherry Eromosele,
commenting on the sponsorship, restated Interswitch’s commitment to supporting
the tech ecosystem, describing Interswitch as a foremost player in providing
for and enabling communities and platforms that showcase Nigerian and African
talents in the tech space.
Eromosele said, “We are excited
to be supporting the Localhost community, where tech enthusiasts, who are
poised to shape the future, gather to discuss how technology can be used to
shape the African narrative by providing bespoke solutions to address our local
challenges.
“At Interswitch, our goal
remains providing enabling systems for the coming generation of tech experts.
For this reason, we want to familiarise developers with our API that can be
integrated into their various solution packages, at zero cost.”
Other speakers at the event include
Interswitch’s DevOps Engineers, AbdulBasit Kabir; Observability Lead at
Paystack, Ibukunoluwa Itimi; and Cloud Native Engineer at Container Solutions,
Opeyemi Alao.
Localhost, previously known as
DevOpsng, holds its Meetup quarterly across Nigeria and beyond, providing
opportunities for sharing knowledge and networking within the Nigerian tech
community.
