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You have only one or two credit cards and do not know how they function? Visit FinTech DevClub in order to learn what type of payment products are there and how to benefit from them. You will learn why FinTech is a challenging business and hear from top Baltic companies about how they change the existing status quo.
You are welcome on 6th December at 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for FinTech focused 70th DevClub.lv:

• • Erik Kaju from TransferWise will give a talk “How to build a payment card product”.
    For a long time payment cards used to be the domain of banks. In the last decade, the paradigm has shifted – we see more and more regular enterprises issuing their own cards, be it telcos, grocery store chains, various fintech startups etc.
    But what does it take to build a payment card from scratch? How do cards work? What is the anatomy of card transactions?
    This is a talk focusing on technical and product aspects of the card issuance, based on true story.
    (Language – English)
    Tags: Payment cards industry, issuance, transaction lifecycle, microservices

    Erik is leading the payment card product engineering at TransferWise. Loves all aspects of product engineering – from validating the market fit, establishing partnerships and negotiating deals, to designing technical architecture, building the team and bringing hyper-growth products to live.

  • Dmitry Buzdin from a-heads consulting will give a talk “How payment cards really work”.
    This talk is an introduction about technical aspects of how payment cards function, what technical protocols are involved and what are implementation complexities in a typical payments project. You will learn about concepts like 3DSecure, Authorisation and Clearing, Tokenization and know about novelties in the payment world, which will affect consumers in the nearest future.
    (Language – English)
    Tags: deep-dive, payments, architecture

    Dmitry is a JUG leader and RigaDevDays founder. Here you can read his interview about Latvian IT and conference organization.

• • Jake Sebastian-Jones from Nordigen will give a talk “Data is not enough, you need information”.
    Having a lot of raw data by itself is meaningless – you need to extract information from the data. Banks and other financial institutions have a lot of data but surprisingly little information. This talk will explain how Nordigen uses transaction data to provide multiple tiers of information to financial service providers.
    (Language – English)
    Tags: fintech, big data, machine learning, credit scoring, banking, startup
    
    Jake moved all they way from Australia to Riga take the role of Head of Development at Nordigen. He has a background in high-frequency trading at Optiver and audio/visual engineering at Dolby Laboratories.

• Call for Papers is closing on Tuesday, 4.12. for the biggest front-end conference in the Baltics – FrontCon 2019! Submit your talk for a chance to be on stage and gain valuable experience as a speaker and a participant! The clock is ticking faster than you might be thinking, so submit yours now!

• In 2019 Riga Dev Days is celebrating its 5th anniversary. Top speakers, 700 participants, grand afterparty. DevClub team will be there, so gather your friends & join.

• Did you know that DYNATECH employees consumed 1440 kg of fruit at the office last year?
  If you’re up for getting some apples, check out our open vacancies:
  – Back-End Developer
  – Front-End Developer
  – Database Developer

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

• What are the two biggest days of the year in e-commerce? Right, it’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Intexsys is making sure that shopping is smooth on these days for literally millions of customers.
  If you want to participate, please apply for:
  – PHP Developer
  – QA Engineer
  – PPC Specialist
  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!

Kubernetes at the moment is like teenager sex – everybody says that he is doing it, but … 🙂 Therefore we invited people who are doing it to share how it really is.
You are welcome on 22th November at 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Kubernetes focused 69th DevClub.lv:

• • Artyom Suharev from DYNATECH will give a talk “Kubernetes: The Journey”.
    The story will focus on the development process of Kubernetes, the inception of the idea, its evolution, caveats and the current situation.
    (Language – Russian)
    Tags: Kubernetes, doker, baremetal, cluster, devops

    Artyom leads the DevOps processes within DYNATECH and makes sure company is progressing fast in terms of the development infrastructure.

• • Anton Kranga from Agile Stacks will give a talk “Kubernetes operators for fun and profit!”.
    Microservices deployed as containers in the Kubernetes cluster does not live in the vacuum. Often, Site Reliability Engineers or Kubernetes native applications talks to each other services in the cluster through the special API, which allows operators to react and perform an automated operation. Such as: revert to latest snapshot, reconfigure cache, gracefully down-scale application etc.
    This talk will guide through the notion of Kubernetes Operators. Share some recipes to write your own operator and share some experienced gathered though several years professionally operating Kubernetes clusters.
    (Language – English)
    Tags: Kuberneres, operators, microservices, Golang

    Antons is a passionate DevOps evangelist and cloud architect. Enjoys to automate-everything and a specially Kubernetes. Likes to inspire and be inspired by talking in technology conferences.

• • Joonathan Mägi DevOps practices lead from Topia will give a talk “Continuous Delivery the Cloud Native way using Spinnaker and Kubernetes”.
    This session will cover the Cloud Native continuous delivery methodologies built on Kubernetes and Spinnaker using the new manifest based Kubernetes (v2) provider. We will look on how Spinnaker will orchestrate the deployments to multiple environments and use manifest parameterization and hydration.
    (Language – English)
    Tags: cloud-native, kubernetes, spinnaker, continuous-delivery
    
    Joonathan is a DevOps practice lead and Cloud Native specialist with CKAD certification at Topia. His previous experiences include being employee #1 at Teleport and leading the platform engineering at Skype.

• Get ready to explore new topics and dive deeper in the front-end world at FrontCon 2019 from April 3-5! Get your Blind Bird ticket now for 119 euros until November 23rd – send us an e-mail to dace@devclub.lv and we’ll help you to get yours! Limited amount available!

• 29-31 May 2019 join 700 developers for 5th anniversary of RigaDevDays – 3 days full with talks & workshops about Java, DevOps, Cloud, SQL Databases, .NET. Blind Bird tickets now available!

• What are the two biggest days of the year in e-commerce? Right, it’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Intexsys is making sure that shopping is smooth on these days for literally millions of customers.
  If you want to participate, please apply for:
  – PHP Developer
  – QA Engineer
  – PPC Specialist
  We promise – it will never be boring!

• Did you know that the mascot of DYNATECH is a white flamingo and each of our employees has their own pet cactus?
  Check out our open vacancies:
  – Front-End Developer
  – Back-End Developer
  – Senior System Administrator

• ALSO Cloud Latvia 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:
  

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This time lets talk about Quality Assurance.
You are welcome on 25th October at 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Quality Assurance focused 68th DevClub.lv:

• • Rihards Skrebelis from TestDevLab will give a talk “How We Test Audio Quality In VoIP Applications”
    Presentation will cover basics of VoIP and different challenges that we had to overcome to develop universal end-to-end solution for audio quality testing in VoIP applications.
    (Language – Latvian)

    Rihards started working as tester during studies in Riga Techincal University and got Bachelor Degree in 2014 with thesis focused around testing audio quality. Following years parallel to work as QA and test automation engineer co-developed process for evaluating voice call quality. More recently working on developing process for evaluation video call quality.

• • Kirill Shepitko from Neotech Development will give a talk “Cloud-native apps REST API testing: our story”
    “We have an internal framework (open-sourced now) that we use to test our cloud-native apps’ REST API, which is based on an interesting combination of Docker, Testcontainers, Wiremock and Cucumber – such solution makes it easy to use for both – QA engineers and business people. We are happy to share our experience in REST API testing – a path from 0 tests and problems to full coverage and nice test reports.”
    (Language – English)
    Tags: cloud-native, docker, cucumber, rest, wiremock, kubernetes

    Kirill is a Software Architect for multiple teams in Neotech Development, continuously exploring new tech to improve team skillset and efficiency. Working in software development for almost 18 years.

• • Artyom Ivanov from DYNATECH will give a talk “Test automation challenges. Automate just enough and improve as needed”.
    – How well hourglass or cupcake can work when the test pyramid just isn’t there?
    – Automating acceptance tests to minimize manual session-based regression testing.
    – UI test reliability and maintainability. Setting artificial limits for the test case coverage.
    – Agreement on goals and metrics. Bringing automation regardless of the level (UI or lower) to every story and collaboration between developers, manual testers and test automators.
    (Language – Russian)
    Tags: test-pyramid, acceptance-testing, gitlab-ci, bdd, anti-patterns

    Artyom is a Test Automation Engineer, who started working at DYNATECH in 2016 as a Manual Tester and decided to switch his career to make a greater impact on the software delivery process. Since then he has worked in different teams, building compact and low maintenance test suites.

     

• This time Neotech Development team will be happy to share even more of their experience with you. In our company  – people come first! We care about collaboration, growing and advancing our skills together. Seize the opportunity to join the team:
  – DevOps Engineer
  – Front-End Developer
  – App Support Engineer

• At DYNATECH we’ll give you space to grow. With our internal lectures, mentoring programs, in-house school and the possibility to attend international conferences, we’ll make sure you are growing in your desired direction. Want to fulfil your potential? Check out our open vacancies:
• – Back-End Developer
  – Front-End Developer
  – Database Developer

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

• Did you know that Intexsys is behind online store, which is selling more than 1 000 000 different products?
  Intexsys is looking for:
  – PHP Developer
• – Product Owner
• – iOS 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!

It is already year around since we had previous DevOps event. Since DevOps is probably even hotter then before, we decided to get more people to share their experience with us.

You are welcome at 23th August 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for DevOps focused 67th DevClub.lv:

• • Deiwin Sarjas from SaleMove will give a talk “Safe and fast delivery with branch deploys” 
    Deiwin will show how he helped SaleMove deliver more value more frequently. Developers now have more confidence in their changes and they have to switch contexts less often. All without sacrificing product stability. Code snippets and examples will demonstrate how Jenkins pipelines, Kubernetes, GitHub, and Slack come together to coordinate a smooth deployment process.
    (Language – English)
    Tags: branch-deploys, continuous-delivery, jenkins, kubernetes.

• • Deiwin has spent years helping European Space Agency process and make sense of massive amounts of data. Passionate about building reliable and maintainable systems both in the small and at scale, he is now working at SaleMove to realize its dream of innovating online customer experience.

• • Sergey Chernecov from Intexsys will give a talk “DevOps – culture over separation! Buzz: puppet, aws, apper.in, shinny unicorn, no docker.”
    “I am a developer! I don’t want to think about OS, I/O nor network latency. I want to click-click and profit.”- hearing this makes me sad. when I get sad, I stop being sad, and be AWESOME instead. A true story of a Dev meeting theOps and developing a Devops culture together.
    (Language – English)
    Tags: puppet, elastic, haproxy, php, devops, pair-infrastructuring.

• • Sergey is a Software Architect in South Park team at Intexsys, currently mostly interested in enterprise integration patterns, SOA, AWS, Kafka. Favorite comedian: Uncle Bob Martin; Interests outside programming: quantum physics. Working in software development since 2006.

• • Edgars Sēlis from TestDevLab will give a talk “Continuous Testing in Agile Mobile app development”
    – Testing is not a separate phase, it occurs throughout the development
    – Creating test pipelines – challenges to create and maintain them
    – Acceptance test automation – how much to automate; best approaches to keep them stable, managing physical device laboratory
    – Continuous Integration practices – testing branches, using triggers and continuous monitoring/feedback
    (Language – Latvian)
    Tags: Testing, Quality Assurance, Automation, Continuous integrations, Jenkins

• • Edgars is a QA engineer and Team lead, working in TestDevLab for more than 4 years in several different projects all around the world. Has experience in setting up testing process from scratch for Agile teams and managing it. Edgars has Professional Master degree in computer science and several certifications in Testing, Test management and Agile/Scrum.

• DevOpsDays Riga 2018 has published almost complete program and this year will have workshops as well:
  – Anton Babenko Terraform best practices with examples and arguments
  – Antonio Pigna Owtf: my application is unsecure! Security test automation in DevSecOps.
  – Scott Feinberg From Zero to Kubernetes: A Crash Course
  There will be also nontechnical workshops by Christina Aldan and even if you are not DevOps related, you could be interested in these:
  – Christina Aldan 5 Tips for Cultivating Emotional Intelligence
  – Christina Aldan Emotional Intelligence in Design
  Come to DevOps focused DevClub.lv to win one of two 50% discounted tickets to DevOpsDays Riga 2018 and use promocode DevClub.lv to get 10% discount (valid till 24.08).

• Hey, hey, hey, we have new sponsor DYNATECH!
• DYNATECH is an information technology company based in Riga, Latvia. We focus on providing IT services and solutions to global brands within the DYNINNO Group in three key areas: travel, finance, and entertainment. DYNATECH maintains IT services for brands in eight countries and we are expanding fast. Our people are our core strength, and their talent and dedication allow us to always be one step ahead of the competition.
  – Mid-level PHP Developer
  – Senior Front-End Developer
  – Database Developer

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

• Did you know that Intexsys is behind online store, which is selling more than 1 000 000 different products?
  Intexsys is looking for:
  – PHP Developers – Junior, Mid, Senior – we got work for any level!
  – PPC Specialist (Pay Per Click, Paid Search) – the opportunity to manage a multi-million dollar ad-spend for multiple properties of our US-based customers.
• – Product Owner – Do you want to own the development of our large-scale international E-commerce projects?
• We promise – it will never be boring!

• There is an IT crowd in Riga where besides creating fun and innovative stuff, people also contribute their cool ideas to the open source. How about joining Neotech Development ranks?
  Opportunities with us:
  – Production Application Support Engineer
  – DevOps Engineer
  – System Administrator

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

Hi!

If take July, PHP, Intexsys, DevClub.lv and put them together, what we gonna get?
Yes, that’s right, as a result we get Modern PHP focused DevClub.lv with afterparty at Intexsys already next week 18.07.

Please pay attention that this time we meet at Vienības gatve 109 (Unity Biznesa centrs) 1.st floor at 18th July 18:30 and be ready to stay for Afterparty at the roof terrace (same building) at Intexsys office.

Agenda of Modern PHP focused 66th DevClub.lv:

• • • • Jānis Mozgis from Printful Latvia will talk about “SOLID principles in PHP – how to apply them in PHP and why should we care“.
        (Language – Latvian)
        Tags: SOLID, PHP, OOP
        
        Jānis is senior software developer at Printful Latvia.
        

• • • • Oleg Andreyev from Intexsys will talk about “Spotting Design patterns in Symfony”.
        Why is this important and why you should use them? The answer is so simple – Design patterns will make your life easier and allow you to write better code faster.
        Oleg will talk briefly about usage of design patterns in PHP with emphasis on implementation in Symfony framework.
        (Language – English)
        Tags: Design Patterns, Symfony, PHP
        
        Oleg is a Team Architect @ Intexsys with 8+ years of experience developing PHP applications.

• • • • Uldis Nipers from Mintos will talk about the experience gained while building a p2p lending marketplace from scratch.
        Topics of the talk will include: decission processes behind choosing technologies and planning architecture, the biggest techincal challanges faced, queue based architecture, quality assurance and continuous integration implementation, migration from one cloud hosting provider to other, and more.

        (Language – English)
        Tags: Symfony, Doctrine, AWS, MySQL, performance tuning

        Uldis is a senior software developer in Mintos.

      • Afterparty
        It has been more that 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!

• For those interested in DevOps it is worth to now that ‘DevOpsDays Riga 2018’ has announced first speakers. Check them here. Program is going to be ready and published in a few weeks. Check the ticket options here. There is limited amount of Diversity tickets available for girls, students, and those who don’t get support from the company and have to pay for tickets themselves. If you belong to any of those groups let us know: info@devclub.lv.

• We are happy to have new sponsor Neotech joining our family.

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

• Did you know that Intexsys is behind online store, which is selling more than 1 000 000 different products?
  Intexsys is looking for:
  – PHP Developers – Junior, Mid, Senior – we got work for any level!
  – PPC Specialist (Pay Per Click, Paid Search) – the opportunity to manage a multi-million dollar ad-spend for multiple properties of our US-based customers.
• – Product Owner – Do you want to own the development of our large-scale international E-commerce projects?
• We promise – it will never be boring!

• And this is what you missed – FrontCon 2018, the first ever two-day conference in Baltics focused on front-end concepts and technologies. Interested? See the video here.

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