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Hi!

What Oracle, Microsoft and NoSQL have in common? They will all unite under one roof in the next DevClub.lv event! We’ve asked experienced people in SQL field to share their knowledge.

Join SQL focused event at 23rd February 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for SQL focused 52nd DevClub.lv:

• Sergejs Viņņiks from Intrum Justitia SDC will give a talk “PL/SQL legacy today: SPA UI application and automated testing with JavaScript.”
  Businesses which run Oracle-based legacy systems sometimes wish to move to a modern WEB-GUI, without refactoring the business logic written completely in PL/SQL. Demand for implementing iterative agile development comes often hand-by-hand.
  Sergejs will demonstrate two generic solutions, which have been developed by Intrum Justitia SDC to address the aforementioned topics:
  1. Hapio – the HTTP adapter to the Oracle 12c database, which allows to call any SQL and PL/SQL methods directly from the browser;
  2. Jasquel – the PL/SQL testing tool, which utilizes Hapio to help creating and automating PL/SQL module tests in JavaScript.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: PLSQL, Testing, JavaScript

Sergejs is an experienced software developer, mainly focused on the databases and PL/SQL during the past years, as well as on training teens and adults in both programming basics and advanced features.

• Juris Rāts from Scope Technologies will give a talk “SQL Server 2016 – what’s new for developers”
  SQL Server has been around for decades. Lots of developers have used it at some stage of their career. However, most use it just as another data store. With the rise of NoSQL is it even relevant anymore?
  Well, I believe, it is. It still has plenty to go for, each version introduces new features and it covers a wide range of scenarios. And the latest version has some aces upon its sleeve. We will do a quick overview of what is SQL Server, then glance over some of the features of the latest version.
  Finally – some notes from the field. How to approach a SQL Server database on a production server.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: SQL Server 2016, In-Memory, Performance optimization

Juris is a team lead at Scope Technologies. DB wise his main focus has been SQL Server development and optimization. Lately has had some exposure to NoSQL in a couple of projects as well.

• Aivars Kalvāns from Tieto Latvia will give a talk “A NoSQL journey in Oracle SQL world”
  A retrospective of over 15 years of product development and different approaches we saw and tried to add flexibility and extensibility to our products. Starting with extra columns for tables, different key-value stores and document stores on top of RDBMS tables and finally Oracle JSON support. I will look at tasks we were trying to solve and problems we introduced by doing that and how we tried to battle them.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: SQL, Schemaless, JSON, Oracle Database

Aivars is a software architect at Tieto Latvia and has worked on payment card software products for more than 15 years. He is using C++, Python and SQL with Oracle database and Tuxedo middleware to build online and batch processing systems. And Aivars loses sleep tinkering with the opposite needs of both worlds.

Tieto is an international IT company, it’s headquarters is located in Helsinki, Finland; more than 13 000 professionals are employed in almost 20 countries across the globe.
To join Tieto Latvia, please feel free to send your CV to darbs@tieto.com or check our webpages www.tieto.lv and www.tieto.com .
Come and see our stand at RTU Career Day on 2nd March, 2017

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers – Junior, Mid, Senior – we got work for any level!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– QA Engineer – Can you assure our quality?
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Senior Backend Developer
– IT Operations Support Specialist
– Sr. Business Analyst

ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

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

Hi!

What could be better than starting a year with a knowledge of the full cycle of mobile development – from prototype and animation, to the fully working application?
You are right! Nothing could be better than a meetup covering those topics.
This month, great mobile oriented speakers will talk about tools and practices that will help you in that journey.

If you want to be on board, come and join Mobile development focused event at 19th January 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Mobile development focused 51st DevClub.lv:

• Gleb Revkov from C.T.Co will give a talk “Practical Prototyping”.
  Effective collaboration between developers and designers has often been a challenge. Several aspects of software, like interactivity, animation or business requirements can be elusive by nature and therefore difficult to validate before they are actually built. Through many years of experience, we have found a way to build the bridge between both groups. And that bridge are prototypes. In this talk I’m going to share my experience with “Principle” prototyping tool and demonstrate how designers and developers can perform cost-effective software iterations before a single line of production code has been written.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Principle, Prototypes, iOS, Interactions

Gleb is designer with more than 8 years of experience. Quick idea validation through interactive prototypes and user testing are integral part of the daily activities. Previously Gleb was worked on projects like One.lv, Odnoklassniki.ru, Skoda.lv, government projects and others.

• Artūrs Braučs from Autentica will give a talk “Ionic 2 app development – good and bad experience”
  Ionic framework is open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app and progressive web app development, built top of Angular 2, Apache Cordova.
  During talk, Arturs will share his first impressions, experience and few tips.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Hybrid apps, Progressive web app, Ionic 2, Angular 2

Artūrs has more than 8 years experience developing web applications with Ruby on Rails, Javascript etc.. In recent years, had experience with iOS, Android and Windows Runtime applications.

• Igors Nemenonoks from Chili will give a talk “Animations in iOS”
  Animations can make your app stand out as well as ruin the user experience. How to do it right way? Which tools to use?
  Igors will overview the evolution of animation techniques in iOS and talk about the purpose of animations in iOS Apps.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: iOS, Swift, Animations

Igors has more than 5 years of experience developing apps for iOS and more than 10 years developing for WEB. Previously worked in Odnoklassniki as lead iOS Developer and currently working as iOS Developer in Chili.

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers – Junior, Mid, Senior – we got work for any level!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– QA Engineer – Can you assure our quality?
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for Senior Backend Developer (Temporary position)

ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

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

Hi!

This December, DevClub will inspire you to bring your ideas to life. We believe that there are no limits for our community. With proper guidance, you can jump from idea to solution. That’s why we’ve teamed up with five great startup founders from Latvia who received more than 4’000’000 EUR investments, and they will share most important that they’ve learned on this path.
If you want your own start-up, you don’t want to miss this one!

Come to Start-up focused event at Monday – 12th December 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Start-up focused 50th DevClub.lv:

• Mikus Opelts founder of Giraffe360 and SkatSkat.lv  will give a talk “My experience on developing a product that users will love and how to build business around it.”
  Will share knowledge of what are the mistakes that we have made in our business, what stands behind success and that includes story of why investors decided to back us with 0.5 million EUR investment before official product launch.
  (Language — Latvian)
  20min talk
  Tags: Business Development, New Product Development, Innovations, Sales

Mikus started skatskat.lv right after the high school and in next 6 years built it in to leading interactive technology provider in Northern Europe. In 2015 founded Giraffe360 virtual tour technology company that raised half a Million Euro in seed investment round.

• Eriks Nelsons, Co-Founder & CEO of Champick will give a “Why Champick failed first market entry and why succeeded in the second? Key learnings and crucial ingredients of high-potential startup in Latvia”
  Champick is daily fantasy football platform with more then 30000 users all around the world and successful market entries in Georgia, Hungary and South Africa.
  Eriks will share experience of attracting local angel investor money and failing once, then standing up again by attracting new foreign co-founders and investors, which led startup to successful launch in several markets globally. Will give his opinion about key ingredients to become successful from Latvia and why it’s not mandatory to be located in Riga (Champick team is from Liepaja).
  (Language — Latvian)
  20min talk
  Tags: Business Development, Case Study, Failing, Transition

Eriks after high school started his corporate career and in 9 years achieved to become International Marketing manager in PINS loyalty program with the biggest focus on Northern European and Asian markets. Since May, this year, quit his corporate career and become full-time Champick CEO.

• Ernests Jenavs from Edurio will share the story of founding Edurio – a startup that helps schools find the hidden insights in student, parent and teacher surveys. Ernest’s story will cover the route from the idea and first unsuccessful attempt to create a prototype to having one of Latvia’s most exciting startups and analyse what factors have contributed to Edurio’s growth. He will talk about working across Latvia and the UK, attracting equity and grant funding (Edurio recently got a 1.9m EUR Horizon2020 grant) and growing the team rapidly.
  (Language — English)
  20min talk
  Tags: Start-up, EdTech

Prior to founding Edurio, Ernest studied decision sciences and worked as a strategy consultant in the UK. He has also worked as a freelance consultant, invested in and advised startups in the UK and Latvia and worked as an expert for the European Commission. Ernest is a member of the board at the Latvian Startup Association.

• Marcis Gogis from Mintos will speak about building a company that has fundamentally transformed the concept of peer-to-peer lending, making it into the Top 3 p2p lending marketplaces in continental Europe with lightening speed.
  Within a year, Mintos has grown from a newly established and unknown platform in the Baltics to a fast-developing marketplace well recognized across Europe. To date Mintos has financed more than EUR 100 million in loans. Marcis will share his “hands on” experience of building Mintos from the ground up, including how the Mintos buisness model was developed and important lessons learned, for example, how they used MVP in order to gather validates learning and successfully develop the product further.
  (Language — English)
  20min talk
  Tags: Success Story, Peer-to-Peer Lending, New Business Model, MVP

Marcis is the Head of Product at Mintos, working with cross-functional teams to develop and implement new product ideas.

• Jānis Kiršteins from Notakey will talk about starting a new company. From finding co-founders, to managing initial finances, to coming up with a product and finding external funding. He will share his experiences in these and other topics, from the point of view of a software developer who quit his day job without a clear plan ahead.
  (Language — English)
  40min talk
  Tags: Start-up, Case Study

Jānis has more than 7 years of software development experience. In 2015 he left his day job and in early 2016 co-founded a B2B security startup called Notakey. Currently it has distributors in the Baltic States and Finland, as well as partners in Switzerland such as Credit Suisse and UBS.

Our new sponsor ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:
– QA Engineer – Can you assure our quality?
– PHP Developers – Always welcome!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Junior Java Developer

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

Hi!

Great hype starts around functional languages and how they fit in the web. In the modern world, needs have changed. Hundreds of thousand connections are not something rare anymore. Needs for languages and tools changed as well.
We would like to present the two, very modern languages – Elixir and Elm, that benefit each other in Backend and Frontend respectively.
And two experienced individuals will share their knowledge how they are using these technologies in production to serve millions of users a month.

Come to Functional Web focused 49th DevClub.lv and be on the edge of new technologies for the Web.
Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 24th November 18:30.

Agenda for Functional Web focused 49th DevClub.lv:

• Boris Goriachev from Meduza.io will talk about: Еlixir in production, for 1.5 years, serving ~ 5 million unique users a month. How we got started, and why elixir? A walkthrough some of the apps, (push notifications for chrome, chat for readers, apps for statistics).
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Elixir, Backend, Realtime, Delayed jobs, Highload, Background jobs, Not delayed

Boris is Full stack (but mostly backend) developer at meduza.io

• Jānis Zaržeckis from Evolution Gaming will talk about Elm – a purely functional language and an ecosystem for better frontend application development. Let’s discuss different use cases where Elm may or may not be suitable.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Elm, Purely Functional Programming, Frontend development, Frontend performance

Jānis is a JavaScript lead at Evolution Gaming.

Our new sponsor ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Java Developer
– Test Automation Specialist
– Temporary PL/SQL Developer

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:

– Senior UI/UX Designer – Design the complete omni-channel eCommerce experience for US-based top 500 internet retailer!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– Front-end Developers – We have a lot of HTML/CSS/LESS and Javascript work to do!
We promise – it will never be boring!

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

Hi!

What have Latvia, Malaysia and Nigeria in common? We all have great developers! And this time, we’ll touch a great and trendy topic which is Angular 2. But there is no fun, if we won’t place this topic along side with React, so we will do that! And you know what else is powerful and you should know about it? Typescript! This time we will have developers from different part of the world into one, united space.

Come to Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 27th October 18:30.

Agenda for Angular 2 focused 48th DevClub.lv:

• Ronalds Zarīts from Scope Technologies will give a talk “Angular 2 – a quick tour”
  Angular 2 has sparked your interest. Maybe you’ve worked with Angular 1.x and want to see what’s new? Maybe you’re new to Angular and would like to know more. You should come to this talk – Angular 2 is pretty cool.
  Angular 2 is full of interesting features, and is quite different from Angular 1.x. We’ll have a quick look at the basics, see how to get started, the types of apps you can build, and explore some of the more interesting features of Angular 2.0.(Language — English)
  Tags: Angular 2.0, Web, TypeScript, JavaScript

Ronalds is a developer at Scope Technologies where he helps build, improve and maintain the company’s SaaS solutions. Lately, he’s deep into Web development using modern technologies and tools.

• Dzulqarnain Nasir from Geta Digital will give a talk “Introduction to TypeScript”
  Today, JavaScript is everywhere. We use it on the front-end. We use it on the back-end. And even in mobile apps. But as the complexities of your application increases, it’s important to keep your code under control before it becomes a huge mess. Enter TypeScript. This session is aimed at introducing developers to TypeScript, and why it’s awesome.(Language — English)
  Tags: JavaScript, TypeScript

Dzulqarnain is an aspiring full-stack developer at Geta Digital, who is passionate about web technologies. He writes at dnasir.com.

• Adewale Oluyinka will speak about React
  Facebook has been trying to convince us that React is the most awesome JavaScript library ever, so let us see if it’s worth our time. We will discuss what React is, the history and the future of React, benefits of using React and features.(Language — English)
  Tags: React, JavaScript, Web 

Adewale has been a full stack developer for at least 6 years with experience in SQL, C#, PHP, Java, Web and mobile application development including Android and cross platform development..

Intexsys is looking for:
– Senior UI/UX Designer – Design the complete omni-channel eCommerce experience for US-based top 500 internet retailer!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– Front-end Developers – We have a lot of HTML/CSS/LESS and Javascript work to do!
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Java Developer (Full stack)
– Senior .NET/C# Developer
– Oracle, PL/SQL Developer

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Our new sponsor Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

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

  

Hi!

Choosing a car is hard, buying a good car is even harder. Feeling safe on the road is important, but if something goes wrong, it is crucial to understand every detail of an accident. This time, we will focus on auto-related technology & development that helps us to be safe on the road, don’t make us as fools when buying a car and also we’ll get an in-depth understanding, how accident reconstruction works.

See you at Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 22nd September 18:30.

Agenda for Auto focused 47th DevClub.lv:

• Aleksis Liekna from Scope Technologies will give a talk “Accident Reconstruction”
  When an accident occurs, it is vital to analyze the chain of events that led to such outcome, especially if the consequences are tragic. Involved parties, including participants themselves, their family members, legal institutions and insurance companies require information and we are doing our best to keep them informed.In this session we will present our advancements in accident analysis, starting with the basics of accident reconstruction and changes in market demands and ending with displaying geographic information in 3D space as well as using Google StreetView API to re-create realistic 3D environments.(Language — English)
  Tags: Accident Reconstruction, 3D Maps, Google StreetView, VR

Aleksis is a software developer in Scope Technologies with more than 10 years of experience in various software development platforms, currently focusing on .NET, JavaScript and ThreeJS.

• Audience is welcome to try car accident reconstruction in virtual reality (see video) during breaks, provided by Scope Technologies

• Albert Bušinskis from Squalio will speak about their challenges to implement Traffic Speed Control System in the Cloud using Machine Learning technologies.
  This talk will be about difficulties they have met on the road, and how they overcame some of them. It will reveal both – technical and management side.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Architecture, Azure Cloud, .Net, Machine Learning, SCRUM

Alberts Bušinskis (Garuda Dev Giri) – Yoga & Meditation teacher, IT enthusiast, software developer. Many years ago he had left a very good job in Switzerland and went to Indian Himalayas to practice Yoga. After he realized that Software Development is not different from Yoga, he came back to homeland trying to be helpful and inspiring.

• Viktors Telle from Myvin.eu will speak about his start-up from business and technical perspective.
  When buying a car, you usually see only half of it because 62% of 2nd-hand market cars in Europe have a hidden history.
  To solve the problem with hidden history, we have developed product Myvin.eu which is a used vehicle history report service. System gathers data from various suppliers, analyzes them and provides users with report and suggestions on particular vehicle.
  In this talk I will describe the product concept and show the current and future architecture of the system.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Automotive, Software Architecture Design, Microsoft Azure, Microservices

Viktors is senior full stack software developer, with focus on technical solution research and new technology analysis. Currently he is developing software using C#, ASP.NET, SQL, MS Azure and front-end frameworks such as AngularJS, RiotJS, KnockoutJS.

Our new sponsor Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– Front-end Developers – We have a lot of HTML/CSS/LESS and Javascript work to do!
– PHP Developer – Always welcome 🙂
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– BI Developer
– Test Automation Specialist
– Senior .NET/C# Developer

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

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

  

Hi!

Is SKY the limit? What if we gather 3 strong and passionate Software Developers into one room? And if all of them will talk about making your code better and how to push your project into beauty of software development? This is going to be ARCHI.. wait for it … TECTURE event that will make you say – “WOW”.

See you at Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 24th August 18:30.

Agenda for Architecture focused 46th DevClub.lv:

• Andrey Sklyarevsky from OK.RU will speak about the SOLID software design principles.
  Programmers make architectural decisions everyday with each new feature, a tiny fix or an overhauling refactoring. Unfortunately, a fashionable pattern-of-the-day or a cutting edge technology is often given undue emphasis, whereas a comprehensive quality picture is overlooked. We will discuss the symptoms of a rotting design and how to avoid them by applying the SOLID architecture design principles.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: SOLID, architecture design, patterns, principles

Andrey is a full-stack software developer with more than 10 years of experience with C#, .NET, SQL, Java and the web. Currently he is programming mostly in Java and JavaScript for the mobile web.

• Valdis Iļjučonoks from Geta Digital will give a talk “Dependency Injection: Revisit”
  Building components and services it’s common if you will need some external dependencies to complete your work. Constructor injections is just one the mechanism of whole dependency injection topic. In this session we will be revisiting dependency injection principles, will look at common pitfall issues and recap some of most known anti-patterns.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Dependency Injection, .Net, C#, SOLID

Valdis is (Microsoft® + EPiServer) · Most Valuable Professional, system architect and web/mobile technologist in Geta Digital, Visual Studio ALM evangelist and passionate about F#. He writes at blog.tech-fellow.net.

• Vitor Silva from Intexsys will give a talk “Clean Code – The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know”
  This talk is an introduction to the principles outlined by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) on how to write clean code. We will refactor code by exploring the foundations of building clean software, learning core concepts along the way.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Clean-Code, TDD, FIRST

Vitor is a Sr. Web Developer @Intexsys passionate about Software architecture & Design. Current Development stack is Symfony, ElasticSearch and RabbitMQ.

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

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

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Java Developer
– .NET/C# Developer
– Data Scientist

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

Hi!

Let’s rise quite a familiar topic to the new heights!
We will talk about Node.js and how to do real-time things with it in your project. We will also try to get an answer to the question “why its good to build your framework?” If it still did not convince you, how about that – this time, we will be in an entirely different but very cool place – Browser Cafe.

Please pay attention that this time we meet at Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 21st July 18:30.

Agenda for Node.js focused 45th DevClub.lv:

• Sergey Grib Team architect from Intexsys will give a talk “Building real-time auction with Node.js, Socket.io & RabbitMQ “
  In the talk, we’ll share our experience in building and scaling real-time bidding system for an auction site with huge load spikes, which now handles hundreds of simultaneous bidders. We’ll talk about implementing bid propagation through Socket.io, handling various issues, tracking statistics and stress-testing the system.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: real-time, Node.js, Socket.io, RabbitMQ

Sergey is in Web software development since 2005, has master degree in computer science. Currently working as Software Architect at Intexsys. His main focus is E-commerce projects and business management systems for mid and large size clients. Technology-wise, Sergey is mostly working with PHP, Symfony2, ElasticSearch, NodeJs and RabbitMQ.

• Jānis Gruzis from Kotique will give a talk “Real-time communication with Node.js”
  In this talk Jānis will talk about real time application in Node.JS and the technologies that help to implement them – Socket.IO, Express.JS.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: real-time, Node.JS, Socket.IO, Express.JS, JavaScript

Jānis has finished LU computer science faculty. Has worked on large scale international projects as a senior developer with real-time components. Contributes into young people education by leading KJPS school and creating systems for improvement of programming education in Latvia.

• Danko Aleksejevs from VeryPositive will talk about their new isomorphic real-time JavaScript framework Headland for web and mobile apps, why it was made and how it’s different from the thousands of JS frameworks out there.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Headland, JavaScript, Node.js, Real-time, Web, Cordova

Danko co-founded VeryPositive in 2006 and has coordinated the development of many large-scale web applications since then. VeryPositive have often been the early adopters of new technology and now they’re looking for early adopters themselves.

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Qlikview Developer
– System Analyst (in Sweden)
– Front-End Developer

Our new sponsor Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

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

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

Hi!

Many of us want to sell stuff online, but not so many have knowledge how to do that. Therefore we invited people with huge hands-on experience in e-commerce site development to share insights.

Please pay attention that this time we meet at Vienības gatve 109 (Unity Biznesa centrs) 1.st floor at 16th June 18:30 and be ready to stay for Afterparty at the roof terrace (same building) at Intexsys office to celebrate DevClub.lv’s 4th birthday 🙂

Agenda for E-commerce focused 44th DevClub.lv:

• Raitis Zvejnieks from Mediaparks will give a talk “Differences of open source e-commerce platforms”
  In this talk Raitis will talk about advances and cons of architectural approach of most popular open source e-commerce platforms.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: e-commerce, Hikashop, Woocommerce, Prestashop, Magento, OpenCart, Sylius

Raitis has finished LU computer science faculty. From 1994 is in business of software development. More than last 10 years owns and leads Business instruments and more than last 7 years owns and leads Mediaparks and also works with system architecture.

• Dmitry Balabka from Intexsys will talk about “E-commerce Search”
  Search is the cornerstone of online shopping. I will share our experience on creating cutting-edge site search functionality and will reflect on achieved results.
  You will learn about developing auto-suggest, search result pages, faceted navigation and much more.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: e-commerce, search

Dmitry has more than 8 years WEB developing experience for different business spheres. Current occupation is Software Architect at Intexsys, working on large E-commerce project.

• Nikita Tihonov from Intexsys will give a talk “Latvian e-commerce – what’s next?”
  What is going to happen to Latvian e-commerce market tomorrow? Which technologies and economic tendencies affect e-commerce business and how? What businessmen and developers should be prepared to?
  Nikita will share unique experience on succeeding in US online retail market and will draw a business and technological roadmap for local e-shops to pursue.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: e-commerce, gap analysis, business, technology, Latvia, USA

Nikita is Product Owner at Intexsys, currently leading 3 teams, which are developing a complex e-commerce platform. He has 6 years of project management experience in IT, E-commerce and Forex.

• AFTERPARTY
  It has been almost a year since we’ve visited Intexsys roof terrace (same building as the conference). Intexsys is inviting everyone again to join us for an Afterparty at the terrace. As always, free beer, snacks and interesting conversations will be waiting for you!

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 Analyst
– Front-End Developer

Our new sponsor Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for .NET Web Developers in Riga.

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

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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:

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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: