A Tale from the Trenches
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An on-premises training centre suddenly sends 250 learners home and builds a remote system that tracks progress as a knowledge graph, creates GitHub repos for assignments, and enforces peer review via GitHub repos with protected main branches; stack is Django + DRF + Hugo + React (now moving to HTMX/Alpine). The MVP goes live in about two months to MVP, supports mastery-based pacing and kanban workflows, reduces staff load, and keeps cohorts graduating into jobs.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 6:04Pandemic pivot and challenges
- 11:28Building a remote learning system
- 20:16Designing the Tia platform
- 24:51Why Django for the backend
- 27:21Features of the Tia MVP
- 35:03Lessons from constraints and remote work
- 37:50Uzi's growth and future goals
- 39:56Q&A session
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