Author: DevClub.lv

Hi!

We think, that everyone who tried to build a website in Latvia knows NIC.lv. While we where trying to buy domains and make load on their servers, they where trying to make it fast and secure.

And as a great addition we will get insights on what types of in-vulnerabilities are found in Latvian projects. Be smart and learn on others mistakes!

Come to Security focused event at Wednesday – 1st June 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Security focused 43rd DevClub.lv:

• Mareks Ruskuls from .LV Registry (nic.lv) will give a talk “Mango – dynamic web from markdown files”.
  Using simple markdown files as content to serve fast, secure and editable webpage.
  How NIC.lv (launched) & CERT.LV (to be launched) is updating webpage without CMS as we know it.
  Presenter will also provide a comparison to traditional web development technology and how Mango approach can help keep web development more structured and improve security by eliminating unnecessary security risks that active components usually fail to do.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: web development, performance improvement, security, concurrency, no CMS

Mareks Ruskuls is a lead developer currently working in research and development department for Top Level Domain .lv registry NIC.LV. He has experience of multiple joint project with CERT.LV (Latvian National Computer Security Incident Response Team) and Web development experience for almost 10 years.

• Agris Krusts from IT centrs will talk about most common web and mobile applications security problems found in systems made in Latvia.
  Statistics will come from data gathered in penetration tests. Most problems will be illustrated with examples and some will be real applications, but not from our penetration tests.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: web security, mobile security, OWASP Top 10

Agris has more than 20 years experience in IS security, UNIX system administration and software development and more than 10 years in security training. From 2000 is consultant and owner of information security consultancy SIA IT Centrs; worked as security trainer for Zone-H in Latvia, Italy, Russia, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Korea; in 2004 founded online media company SIA Nerealitate which specializes in online crowd sourcing platform development, in 2012 sold crowd sourcing news and entertainment platform spoki.lv to Schibsted media group.

If you want more security, watch videos from previous security focused event:
– Baiba Kaskina – “Responsible Disclosure Policy”
– Veronika Harcenoka – “Cyber Security: Think Security First”
– Major Gatis Graudins – “Cyber Defence Unit and daily life of unit”

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Senior Android Developer
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Senior .NET/C# Developer
– BI/DWH Consultant
– CEU Digitalization Delivery Manager

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

Hi!

Do you want to hear real life experience from Agile practitioners?

Come to Agile focused event at Wednesday – 27th April 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Agile focused 42nd DevClub.lv:

• Hanno Jarvet from Jarvet Consulting will give a talk “Defining and executing a portfolio strategy”
  In a perfect world everyone in our organisation knows what and why it should be achieved, has clarity around which decisions need to be made by whom and has the necessary competence, information, resources and authority to do it. Usually this is not the case. I will share practical examples, tools and models that I have used to help organisations make progress in executing their portfolio strategy.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: agile, portfolio management, strategy execution, product development, organisational structure, hierarchy, networks, process improvement

Hanno helps companies to dramatically improve performance. Since 2006 he has helped dozens of companies and software teams improve their processes and productivity. He has worked with such industries as telecom, IT, outdoor media, government, non-profit, education, banking, insurance and energy.

• Anastasija Petrjajeva from Intexsys will give a talk “Removing quotes from “Agile” ”
  Few years ago we’ve been claiming that we’re using “Agile”, but we had to put this word in quotes. This talk is about how we removed the quotes from this word and transitioned to Agile development process.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: agile transition, kanban methodology, development process, continuous improvement

Anastasija – CSM, Scrum Master in Intexsys from the very beginning of Agile transition (without quotes).

• Filips Jeļisejevs from Also Cloud Oy will talk about two short topics:
  – What are they hiding from you – dark(er) side of SCRUM – Have you ever wondered what your SCRUM Master knows that you don’t?
  Take a peek into the psychological mechanisms used (or abused?) in SCRUM!

  – Building Xanadu – How would you build a team in the ideal world? Whats holding you back? Some bragging about real things done in real team in a real world environment.

  (Language — English)
  Tags: team building, scrum, psychology, management 3.0

Filips – Agile enthusiast who has been a SCRUM Master before it was cool. Hobbyist of behavioral economics, has worked in companies big and small, but still a believer that biggest challenge in software development is people..

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– BI Analyst
– BI/DWH Consultant
– Qlik View Application Manager
– CEU Digitalization Delivery Manager

Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Developer
– Unity Developer
– Back-end Developer

Do you want a job, which will never be boring? Intexsys is looking for
– Senior Android Developer
– PHP Developer
– Front-end Developer
– QA Engineer
More open positions available at http://www.intexsys.lv/careers

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

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This time, its simple. We will gather people in one room, who just know how to build hardware startups. They will share experience, how to do it from idea generation to how to sell it to end customers. If I would be in your shoes, I wouldn’t miss it 🙂

Come to Hardware focused event at 31st March 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Hardware focused 41st DevClub.lv:

• Kaspars Škerba from Greynut will give a speech about electronics product development cycle – starting from process of coming up with idea till final product delivery to client. Main topics will be electronics development steps and manufacturing process.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Electronics, Product development cycle

Kaspars Škerba is mechatronics engineer and co-founder of Greynut Ltd. – company which is now part of Draugiem Group and have developed more than 10 different products.

• Ingus Rūķis from Mapon will give a talk 10 years in the IoT business
  Mapon is one of the biggest (probably THE biggest) GPS fleet tracking companies in Latvia. During 10 years of work in the field we have eaten several tons of salt and we’re ready to share our experience on the technical challenges we have faced.
  The talk will guide you through the Mapon hardware and hardware integration solutions as well as provide some overall insights into GPS tracking business and future trends.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: hardware, iot, integration, fleet management, vehicle tracking

Ingus Rūķis is Web developer with over 10 years of active development experience, now leading teams of developers and coaching team leaders. Working in companies of Draugiem Group

• Iļja Nevdahs from Airdog will give a talk about “High-tech hardware startup in the world of giants”.
  Story of AirDog development and mass production: ups and downs, competition, surviving price wars, delaying product delivery and future of high tech drones.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: drones, hardware, consumer products

Iļja is former enterprise software developer (web, Java, .Net) now leading hardware and software development teams in AirDog – one of the most renown Latvian hardware startups making drones for action sports.

Accenture is looking for:
– Sitecore developer,
– Experienced .NET developer,
– Senior Front end developer.

Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game QA/Producer.

Are you an expert in HTML/CSS/JS and love to create pixel-perfect websites slice-up with modern tools like Grunt, Bower, LESS, BEM? Join Intexsys team as a Front-End Developer!
If you are more into PHP Back-end development, and would like to work with large international projects using Symfony2 framework, Intexsys got a PHP Developer job for you!
More open positions at http://www.intexsys.lv/careers

Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.

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ARCHITECT ALL THE THINGS!
This time we will talk about very picky topic, we will make it feel simple and understandable. There won’t be any questions that you afraid to ask and we afraid to talk. Architecture will span from people to real implementation and of course, cache.

Come to Architecture focused event at 25th February 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Architecture focused 40th DevClub.lv:

• Mārtiņš Šipenko from Kasko will give a talk “HTTP Caching in Web Applications”
  A talk about how HTTP caching features that can and should be used to reduce origin server loads and traffic whilst retaining very small cache expire times. More specifically will cover what basic http headers are used by standard cache devices and how they differ, as well as how can they be used in combination to achieve smart cache revalidation.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: HTTP, Caching

Mārtiņš Šipenko is an OSS contributor and author of couple of app/libs. Has been involved in web development for over 10 years, currently working as a software & systems engineer at Kasko. Focused on building high performance and scalable applications, using cloud technologies and microservice architectures. Over the past few years Martins has given speeches in universities of Latvia, community meetups and conferences in Latvia and abroad.

• Maxim Sidorenko from Transact Pro will speak about Microservices architecture in Online Card Processing. Microservices is not only modern buzzword, but also well working idea with corresponding pros and cons. Talk is aimed at web developers (php, python, ruby, etc… )
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: System architecture, Architecture patterns, Microservices, Rest API, Docker, Testing

Maxim is a system architect with more than 16 years of experience in industry. Being one of the first Go language pioneers in Latvia Maxim has launched a microservice-based financial system written in PHP and Go. His interests are high load systems, scaling, application containers and, of course, Go-lang.

• Ruslan Zavacky from Kayako will speak about Software Architecture, what it takes to “raise” an architect and if you even need one. And who exactly is an architect? And mainly, we will have a focus on how to really deliver a software.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Architecture, Development, Meaning of Life

Ruslan is Software Architect and Developer. Passionate about what he is doing and he is also DevClub fella

Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game QA/Producer.

Are you an expert in HTML/CSS/JS and love to create pixel-perfect websites slice-up with modern tools like Grunt, Bower, LESS, BEM? Join Intexsys team as a Front-End Developer!
If you are more into PHP Back-end development, and would like to work with large international projects using Symfony2 framework, Intexsys got a PHP Developer job for you!
More open positions at http://www.intexsys.lv/careers

Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks: