Africa

How we engineered Seller

Seller is an eCommerce as a service, cloud platform designed to solve many local and real problems faced by small businesses and retailers in Nigeria and across Africa, which has been hindering growth in the digital era.

eCommerce

Empowering African MSMEs to Sell Online with Seller

[Launched] Seller, an eCommerce platform that enables African business owners to create their own online store for free for life and start selling online in minutes...

google-kubernetes-engine

Continuous deployment to Cloud Run on Google Kubernetes Engine

In this tutorial, you would learn how to setup continuous deployment for an application to Cloud Run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

How to Ensure Business Continuity in a Pandemic

Until a couple of weeks ago, having an e-commerce option or a work-from-home policy just seemed like smart business plans. Now, they are survival strategies. Public officials are now scrambling to master video conferencing tools to connect with each other while smart businesses are

garden

Development to Production on GKE Clusters using Garden

In this article, we’ll develop and deploy apps onto a remote Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster using Garden.

google-cloud-platform

Deploying Container Images to GKE using Kubectl

Kubectl is a command line tool for controlling Kubernetes clusters, which allows you to run commands against Kubernetes clusters to deploy applications, inspect and manage cluster resources, or view logs.We’ll use the kubectl tool to deploy a container image to the Google Kubernetes Engine Cluster.

google-cloud-platform

Deploying Ready Apps to GKE using Cloud Marketplace

Google Cloud Marketplace includes container images and configuration files, such as a kubectl configuration or a Helm chart, we'll use it to deploy a Wordpress application on a Google Kubernetes Cluster.

google-cloud-platform

Kubernetes on GKE : Series Intro

In this series of articles, you would learn how to setup and deploy applications to a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster using the Google Cloud Marketplace, Kubectl CLI, Helm Charts and Garden.io tool.

app-engine

A Developer's Guide to Building Serverless Applications on the Cloud - Part 1 (Deployment)

In this article, I will discuss how Developers at DevShopZ easily moved from local development to the Cloud.

automation

Building Artifacts on the Cloud

In this tutorial, you will leverage Cloud Build to build artifacts extremely fast on the Cloud using the following examples: - Building and Storing container or non-container artifacts. - Automating builds from repositories using Cloud Build Triggers.

google-cloud-scheduler

Scheduling periodic jobs with Cloud Scheduler ⏰

Cloud Scheduler is a fully managed enterprise-grade cron job scheduler. It allows you to schedule virtually any job, including batch, big data jobs, cloud infrastructure operations, and more.

Customer Experience

3 tools Small brands can use to better serve Shoppers this Holiday Shopping Season

Many big brands like Jumia and konga have rolled out their Black Friday campaign. The last 3 month in the year signifies peak season for shopping all over the world.

cloud-build

Deploying Containers to Cloud Run in <5mins

In this article, we’ll briefly build and deploy a containerized application and deploy to Cloud Run.

Marketing tips

6 Easy Ways Smart Online Retailers will Win this Holiday Season and in 2020!

In business its all about the people. So you just opened for business and you want people to visit your store. You have new arrivals and you want people to

cloud-run

How to Deploy a vue application on cloud run

IntroductionDeploying a vue application on cloud run is as straight forward as deploying a node application on cloud run. Deploying a vue application with access to environment variables? not so

Marketing tips

Useful Tools for Black Friday Sale: The BFCM Starter Pack for Small Business

Now that we have succeeded in convincing you to participate in the 2019 Black Friday Cyber Monday Sales, Yay! And also, having given you the necessary tips and strategies to

Sales Pipeline

Never run out of New customers: 5 Quick tips.

In this article, I share 5 actionable tips on how to never run out of new customers.

black friday

The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Black Friday Cyber Monday for Small Businesses.

For a while now, Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) has been associated with the big brands and eCommerce giants alone but not anymore. A lot of small businesses are starting

serverless

Journey to Serverless on Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud’s serverless platform lets you write code your way without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. Deploy functions or apps as source code or as containers.

Social Media Management

Top 4 Tools and Platform that Help You Manage Your Social Media

Managing business pages across multiple social media platforms can be pretty overwhelming, especially if one is a one-man business. In this post, I share the top 4 tools to help you stay on the game and ease the headache.

google-cloud-platform

Get started with Google Cloud Platform for free

Whether your business is early in its journey or well on its way to digital transformation, Google Cloud's robust set of solutions and technologies helps chart a path to success.

dropshipping

Getting Started With Dropshipping

Dropshipping is an online business model that allows you to sell a product without actually handling it or keeping it in stock. In simpler terms: You start a dropshipping business

small business

5 Common Mistakes Online Businesses Make and How to Avoid Them

Launching a business online provides endless opportunities to entrepreneurs but as seamless and quickly as it might seem to set up your business and start making money, it’s also

cloud-firestore

Building a Flask(Python) CRUD API with Cloud Firestore(Firebase) and Deploying on Cloud Run.

In this tutorial, you will build a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) API to manage Todo Lists using Flask (a microframework for Python), Cloud Firestore (a flexible, scalable database for mobile, web, and server development from Firebase) and deploy the API to Cloud Run.

Google shopping ad

Google Shopping Ads - A Sales Goldmine for Online Sellers in Nigeria

Search ads have been around for a while but last month Google launched Shopping ads in a couple of countries including Nigeria. This could be a potential sales goldmine for online sellers...