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How I Built a Serverless Power Outage Tracker for Nigeria on AWS | Part 1

DEV Community·Emmanuel Ulu·22 days ago
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The Problem Every Nigerian Knows You're at home in Ikeja trying to work. Suddenly "NEPA" takes light. You don't know if it's just your street, your whole estate, or the entire LGA. You check WhatsApp groups people are complaining but nobody has answers. You call EKEDC customer care nobody picks up. You just sit and wait, not knowing if light is coming back in 30 minutes or 3 days. This is the daily reality for millions of Nigerians. And it's the problem I decided to solve with my AWS Community Builder $500 credit. What I Built A serverless, crowdsourced power outage tracking and alert system for Nigeria built entirely on AWS using SAM (Serverless Application Model).…

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