React (or ReactJS ) is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is maintained by Facebook and a community of individual developers and companies. We teach Caribbean developers in our technical onboarding curriculum how to implement design using the technology for single (web) page and mobile applications
Most of our recruits come in the program with some exposure to Android Studio. It is the classic development environment for Android OS applications. However, through mentorship and training provided by our Bay Area mentor network we are able to develop competence in the platform that can match your typical US-local, junior developer
Express is a server-side web framework designed to work with NodeJS. Written in Javascript, it is growing to become as accessible and as popular as Laravel and and Wordpress. It is part of our onboarding curriculum at Hacker Hostel
NodeJS has become the backbone for server side javascript. It started out gaining popularity within the open source community because of the accessibility of JavaScript and is quickly being adopted by Enterprise scale clients and the most popular cloud platforms support NodeJS very early in their product roadmaps.
Even though our participants understand SQL, we use MongoDB because of it's scalable capacity and flexibility. It's also based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) which makes it more accessible to more markets and faster to access on mobile networks
GraphQL is a API framework based on JavaScript Object Notation that, once set up, allows for front-end programmers to work on front end applications independently from the back end. This is a great fit for outsource development work, because of the short term nature of the engagements
Tensorflow is an open source research and math library used for Machine learning and and Neural Network Applications. The library has been reinterpreted from Python to Javascript which means. Phones can now run machine learning applications without access to internet. We have been designing solutions for our region in cases where internet is not readily available, such as deep rural areas or right after a hurricane when broadband wireless and infrastructure is not present.
Amazon Web Services is the largest provider of Cloud based infrastructure in the world. We have been focusing on Server-less Architecture and so we can take data from somewhere, do something with it, and then put it somewhere else, at extraordinary scale, with the flexibility of a pay-as-you-go pricing model.
Google Cloud Platform is leading the world in Artificial intelligence and making it accessible through reasonably priced cloud infrastructure. We have been using this technology for image recognition, digital transcription and data analysis for Finance, Logistics and Tourism industries.
