9 Things We Learnt From nHub and Colab Meetup Here In Jos

Northern Nigeria's first tech hub nHub Nigeria and Kaduna's first Innovation hub Colab had a meetup here in Jos.


Colab, an innovative hub and collaborative community for startups, innovators, creatives and entrepreneurs brought their team of experienced techies and they talked on the following topics:

Machine learning regression by Robert John
Deploying like a boss by Jonathan Itakpe
Component Driven Development by Ifeanyi Morah.

Here's everything we learnt from the meetup: 

1. Machine Learning is the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed to do so. - Arthur Samuel

2. There are 4 types of machine learning;

• Supervised Learning
• Unsupervised Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Neural Networks

3. The major challenges of web development include:

• Scaling
• Collaboration
• Continuous Development/ Continuous Integration
• Small Changes in deployment
• Different environments(testing, local, staging and production) etc. 

4. A container is a lightweight, virtualized, portable software-defined environment in which software can run in isolation of other software running on the physical host machine.

5. Container solve the problem of getting software to run reliably when it's moved from one computing environment to another.

6. Docker is a container technology for linux that allows a developer to package up an application with all of the parts it needs. It solves a lot of deployment issues but it isn't the answer to all the problems.

7. A docker image is a lightweight, stand-alone executable package that includes eveything you need to run a piece of software, the code, libraries, a runtime, environment variables and config files.

8. A component is a small self-contained part of an application's user interface.

9. A component is maintainable, understandable, resuable, testable and debugable.

Meetups this are important because they help promote collaboration and innovation. The guys at Colab spent a lot of time on their presentation and from our discussion with those in attendance, everyone clearly learnt some valuable lessons that would be useful in their tech future.

Our team was glad to be part of the meetup and we are looking forward to more collaborations, innovations and meetups.