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**GeeksBlaBla**

Geeksblabla is a podcast about technology, computer science, programming.

each episode we invite different people to talk about what they do best and share it with you guys!

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#71 - Data Centers in Morocco Feb 25, 2021

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In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Abdelfettah Sghiouar, Islam Abouelata and Karim Benzidane to talk about Data Centers.

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0:00 - Introduction.

0:05 - What’s a datacenter?

0:09 - How does the datacenter work?

0:17 - What are the criteria to build a data center?

0:24 - What job positions exist, and what people do?

0:36 - What are datacenter impact on environment?

0:44 - Should you care as a developer?

0:47 - Questions and Comments

0:55 - CNCF Casablanca Community announcement

1:08 - What are datacenters exist in Morocco?

1:09 - What do you think of the new datacenter in benguerir?

1:12 - Why are datacenters important for Morocco?

1:18 - What’s an ISP (Internet Service Provider), IXP (Internet Exchange Point) and POP (Point of Presence)?

1:21 - Why are datacenters important for Internet?

1:24 - What does it mean to have a home datacenter?

1:32 - What studies do I have to do to work in a datacenter?

1:35 - Questions and Comments

1:45 - Wrap up and goodbye.

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#70 - DataBases deep dive Feb 16, 2021

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In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Taoufik Khamouli, Anouar Boukhatem and El Housseine Jaafari to talk about Databases, different types and, some advanced topics.

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0:00 - Introduction.

0:06 - What do we mean by a Database?

0:10 - Why do we need databases?

0:20 - What are the different types of databases and why we have more than one?

0:39 - What are ACID properties, and why are they important?

0:51 - What is denormalization and, when we need it?

0:55 - What consideration to decide between database types?

1:29 - Open-source vs. proprietary database, Which one is better?

1:34 - What is Indexing and how to use it well?

1:37 - What is CAP theorem, and why is it important?

1:42 - What are the requirements to have High Availability & Data Replication in databases?

1:49 - What are Backup & Restore Policies best practices?

1:56 - Advice about Performance Optimization.

2:19 - Wrap up and goodbye.

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#68 - Developer Productivity Feb 05, 2021

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In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Diaa Alhak El Fallous and Othmane Kinane, and we discuss Developer Productivity Definition, tools, and more things about it.

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0:01 - Introduction.

0:04 - What do we mean with Productivity?

0:08 - How to measure productivity?

0:20 - What do we mean with Productivity for a developer working alone, and How he measure it?

0:30 - Does a predefined roadmap consider a developer’s productivity?

0:43 - How do you do to being consistent at work?

1:08 - How to manage the situation when you need more time to grasp the task's skills or feel that you won’t meet some deadline?

1:13 - What are the criteria to promote a person?

1:23 - How can a developer avoid burnout?

1:36 - Tips to handle distractions and to be more productive while working

1:54 - Wrap up and goodbye.

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#67 - Tech News & AMA #7 Jan 27, 2021

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Tech News & AMA #6 with our community members Abderrahim, Youssouf, Abderrahim, Otmane, and Mohamed. During this episode, we discuss the latest Tech News and we answer audience questions about programming, community, new technologies, and much more.

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0:01 - Introduction.

0:04 - New WhatsApp Privacy.

0:10 - Google Threatens To Shut Down Search Engine In Australia If Forced To Pay Publishers For News.

0:14 - Elastic Changes Licences for Elasticsearch and Kibana: AWS Forks Both

0:30 - The future of React & React Native

0:31 - Micro frontend Apps

0:43 - How to switch your career

0:46 - Parallel Programming

0:54- when we should start using ngrx

1:02 - Self-driving cars updates

1:07 - SEO

1:13 - pub/sub or RabbitMq

1:31 - Gatsbyjs for E-Commerce websites

1:33 - No-Code or low code trends

1:44 - What's the quality strategy used in the projects you worked on?

1:54 - What I should master before get started with devops?

2:04 - Deno.js vs Node

2:18 - Wrap up and goodbye.

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#66 - Internet of Things Jan 19, 2021

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In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discussed with our guests Ali Lakrakbi and Saad Zabari what's IoT, its impact, Adopting IoT in Morocco, and more things about it.

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0:00 - Introduction and welcoming.

0:07 - What's the Internet of Things?

0:11 - Why the Internet of Things, and what is its impact on humanity?

0:19 - Around 4/5 years ago, IoT was trending, and then it started slowly to disappear. Why is that?

0:26 - What are the difficulties in creating a startup in the domain of Iot, and why don't we see many successful startups in that area?

0:39 - What is the impact of 5g on IoT?

0:43 - Rumors said that the vaccine would have a microchip; technically, is that possible?

0:46 - Is there any risk concerning the IoT, specifically because we are related to servers/cloud?

0:52 - What are the solutions proposed by manufacturers to ensure security and privacy?

1:15 - During quarantine, the community of makers and IoT enthusiasts were here, never than before were in the appointment and came up with many great initiatives. Your opinion about that?

1:23 - Adopting IoT in Morocco will help the communities to move forward, and having products made in morocco?

1:30 - How can we integrate IoT into the education system?

1:49 - Conclusion and Goodbye.

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#65 - Tech Interviews Jan 12, 2021

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In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discussed some ways to present your best self in a tech interview, how to answer common questions, types of interviews, best practices, and tips for better communication with the recruiter.

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0:00 - Introduction and welcoming.

0:08 - Types of interviews

0:22 - Things to do before and after the interview

0:29 - Types of technical interviews

0:52 - Tips for better communication with the recruiter

1:00 - How to prepare for technical questions

1:19 - QA.

1:46 - Tell Me About Yourself.

1:52 - Why Should We Hire You?

1:54 - Why did you leave (or why are you leaving) your job?

1:55 - What Are Your Greatest Strengths and Weaknesses?

2:01 - What are your goals?

2:04 - Can you talk about a technical challenge you faced and how you handled it?

2:06 - When was the last time you had a problem with a coworker? How did you handle it?

2:09 - Salary expectation

2:20 - QA.

2:43 - Conclusion and Goodbye.

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#64 - MSS with Aboulfeth Hamza Jan 10, 2021

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In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we invited Aboulfeth, a tech serial entrepreneur who started his first business at the early age of 17. He dropped out of college at 21, became ICANN accredited at 24, attended the World Economic Forum at 25, and went to Harvard at 26 and Hajj and Burning Man at 27.

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Aboulfeth Hamza

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#63 - Tech News & AMA #6 Jan 01, 2021

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Tech News & AMA #6 with our community members Meriem, Youssouf, Abderrahim, Abdelfettah, and Mohamed. During this episode, we discuss the latest Tech News and we answer audience questions about programming, community, new technologies, and much more.

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0:01 - Introduction.

0:04 - Biggest Tech News in 2020 and the impact of COVID-19.

0:13 - Google Outage.

0:22 - Google monopoly case.

0:35 - The worst-ever US government cyber-attack.

0:43 - New IOS 14 privacy policies?

0:54 - GoDaddy Employees Were Told They Were Getting a Holiday Bonus. It Was Actually a Phishing Test.

0:59 - Zero click venerability & NSO Group.

1:07 - SI and Big Data in Morocco.

1:12 - Bitcoin Approaching \$30k.

1:20 - What is a good backend tech stack to build a social media platform?

1:22 - Research labs in Morocco.

1:28 - SEO for react apps.

1:30 - React Native vs Flutter?

1:43 - Angular Universal.

1:50 - Rust and what kind of project we can build with ?

1:54 - Are there any PAAS, CAAS companies in Morocco?

2:09 - React Server Component?

2:11 - Wrap up and goodbye.

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#62 - PhD in Computer Science Dec 23, 2020

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In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discuss with our guests Karim Mouhssine and Mohamed, who had experience in PhD before, everything about PhD and how to apply for it in Morocco.

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0:02 - Introduction

0:03 - What is PhD, How long does it take, Objective of a PHD and How to apply for a CS PHD in Morocco ?

0:06 - Do you have any advices for choosing a subject and the supervisor?

0:09 - Advice for getting an additional funding if possible

0:12 - When you apply for a PhD in university, are you affected automatically to another institution?

0:13 - Is ther a precise time of the year when we can start working on our PhD?

0:20 - What are the objectives and responsabilities of a PhD syudent during his cursus?

0:32 - One of the requirements to aply for PhD is having indexed articles

0:38 - Do salaried PhD students pay subscribtion fees to PhD program?

0:39 - Any advices on how to write a scientific article?

0:42 - Different categories of academic journals. How to know the reputation (or impact) of a given journal ? Is there a ranking of academic journals ? How is a researcher's impact calculated ?

0:49 - Work opportunities for PHDs in Morocco beside a career in academia. Does having a PHD make any difference for working in a multinational company in Morocco like Oracle or Microsoft ?

1:00 - Is it difficult to publish an article?

1:02 - For CS PhDs, are there subjects that englobe other fields? (Industrial for example)

1:03 - Are Maths a principal requirement to apply for PhD in CS?

1:04 - Are there any collaborations of Moroccan universities with foreign universities in computer science research

1:22 - Recent important research made by moroccan universities in computer science. Leading moroccan universities in computer science research

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