Today I Learned

Building a Real-Time Payment Integration System: Lessons from Production

March 15, 2026

I recently worked on an integration connecting CleanCloud, Safaricom M-Pesa, and Odoo ERP for a laundry business in Kenya.

fastapi mpesa webhooks gcp integrations odoo xmlrpc

Building an AI-Powered Work Order Processing System: Lessons from Backend to Browser Extension

September 07, 2025

I recently built a system that extracts appointment and work order information from uploaded documents and makes the results available through a Chrome extension.

fastapi openai chrome-extension ocr background-jobs

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials (LFS250)

July 01, 2025

I recently completed the Linux Foundation’s Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials course.

kubernetes cloud-native containers orchestration

James Olal

Today I Learned

Building a Real-Time Payment Integration System: Lessons from Production

Building an AI-Powered Work Order Processing System: Lessons from Backend to Browser Extension

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials (LFS250)