Hi!

This time we decided to make FrontEnd focused event to warm you up for the main FrontEnd event of the year – FrontCon. Between all attendees of this DevClub.lv we will raffle 2 tickets to FrontCon with 50% discount.

You are welcome to join us at May 17th at 18:30 to Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda of Frontend focused 65th DevClub.lv:

• • • • Alexey Malihin from Intexsys will give a talk „Pumping up the Lighthouse score“
        E-commerce website has low conversion? User bounce rate is too high and time spent on site is too low? This may be because your site is slow! 53% of all sites are abandoned if page load is longer than 3 seconds. There is always room for website improvement but where to start? What have you done right, what could have been better and what have you missed? A frontend engineer will give you a keynote on how to increase website performance, accessibility and SEO with Google Chrome Lighthouse audit tool.
        (Language – Russian)
        Tags: Frontend audit, Frontend performance, Frontend optimization, Google Lighthouse
        
        Alexey is young yet very experienced frontend developer who has been working on complex projects in Intexsys for almost 4 years.

     

    • • Mikhail Dunaev from Throne Gaming / TallinnJS Estonia will give talk “Infographics in the browser using d3.js”
        D3.js is one of the most powerful JavaScript libraries for data visualisation in the browser. But this is only an instrument that alone will not answer questions about how to find patterns, interesting moments, or, perhaps, a hidden meaning in the big volumes of your data.
        Mikhail will introduce us to some of the technologies and techniques for creating infographic.

        (Language – Russian)
        Tags: Data visualisation, Infographics, d3.js

        Mikhail is a JavaScript developer from Russia who moved to Estonia a year and a half ago. Previously, Mikhail worked in the infographic studio of the largest Russian news agencies – RIA Novosti / Lenta.ru / Rambler.ru.

     

• FrontCon is running out of tickets so hurry up and get yours. And prices goes up on May 19, so better use our promo code DevClubRulez with 10% discount now!

• Did you know Intrum publishes the European Payment Report and European Consumer Payment Report on a yearly basis where we share insights in the impacts of late payment for businesses and consumers payment behaviour in Europe?
  Intrum Global Technologies is looking for:
  – Team lead – JAVA Developer
  – Senior .Net/C# Developer
  – Test specialist with automation skills

• 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!

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

Did you know, that Riga Dev Days 2018  is happening already at the end of May? Get your ticket to attend more than 60 talks, 7 workshops in 5 tracks.

Just reminding that DevOpsDays Riga 2018 Call for Paper is open till beginning of June. Submit your story now.

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Hi!

If you put together these 3 words – Security, Kittens, GDPR, what you are going to get?

We tried and got Security focused event at March 22nd at 18:30 to Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda of Security focused 64th DevClub.lv:

• • • • Kirill Linnik from MOVE Guides/DevClub Estonia will give a talk „GDPR and kittens“
        Despite the new law affects all people, the most influence it has on us – IT crowd. Interestingly, if you check presentations regarding GDPR, they are mainly produced by lawyers and other people, who will not tell you what it means in practice. The reason is simple: GDPR is an 88-pages-long document and it is written in a language, not all IT people can understand. Therefore, DevClub does it for you. This is our translation of what GDPR means to IT, how it affects our development, business in general and how kittens are connected to all of that.
        (Language — English)
        Tags: GDPR
        
        Kirill is the father of DevClub and Senior Software Architect at MOVE Guides, global mobility management company. He acts as technical visioner, designing future of people relocation solution using various technologies and stacks: AWS, GC, Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Go, .NET,…
        

     

    • • Agris Krusts from IT Centrs SIA will talk about OWASP Top Ten in Latvia – most common web security problems from OWASP Top 10 in Latvia in recent years and compare with similar statistics from couple of years ago. Presentation will include most common mobile application security problems. For some vulnerabilities there will be demos in test and live systems.
        (Language — English)
        Tags: OWASP, web security, mobile security
        
        Agris is founder of security consulting and pen-testing company IT Centrs, SIA and works in the the field for more than 10 years.
        

     

    • • Kirils Solovjovs from Possible Security will talk OPSEC and defense against social engineering.
        This lecture will cover the proper security processes for developers, executives and start-ups.
        Presentational includes the five steps of the OPSEC process, including identification of critical information, threat analysis, vulnerability analysis, risk assesment and application of appropriate OPSEC measures. We will also study some common examples of social engineering. You’ll learn to make your life easier by first making it harder to minimise the possiblity of becoming a vicim of a social engineering attack.
        (Language — English)
        Tags: security, itsec, opsec, social engineering
        
        Mg. sc. comp. Kirils Solovjovs is the most visible white-hat hacker in Latvia. He has extensive experience in network flow analysis, reverse engineering, social engineering and penetration testing. He has discovered and responsibly disclosed or reported multiple security vulnerabilities in information systems of both national and international significance.

• Did you know, that Riga Dev Days 2018 program  is almost complete with more than 50 speakers?  Subcsribe to DevClub.lv mailing list to receive discount code for Riga Dev Days 2018.

• Just reminding that FrontCon call for papers will end soon. We already have many submissions from foreign speakers and would like to have more submissions from local speakers, therefore – submit your talk now!

• Did you know that at Intexsys developers can dedicate 10% of their time to “Guild” work, where Guild members decide what they will work on?
  Intexsys is looking for:
  – PHP Developers – Junior, Mid, Senior – we got work for any level!
  – Senior Database Developer (MS SQL)
  We promise – it will never be boring!

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

• Did you know Intrum Hackathon 2018 took place few days ago and 6 teams did a great job and presented prototypes of meaningful ideas?
  Intrum Global Technologies is looking for:
  – .NET DEVELOPER
  – DATA SCIENTIST
  – IT MANAGER (DATA MANAGEMENT AREA)

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Hi!

.Net people we have good news for you, we are having .Net focused event at February 22nd at 18:30 to Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda of .NET focused 63rd DevClub.lv:

• • • • Valdis Iļjučonoks from Geta Digital will give a talk “Alternative Localization for Asp.Net Core Applications”
        Let’s look at how Asp.Net Core applications could be localized, what are resources and resource managers. Will see how localization happens in Asp.Net Core pipeline and also will checkout some of the caveats and difficulties when working with built-in localization provider in Asp.Net Core applications. And in that context let’s see what could be done better and what tool we could use to make developer life easier (actually make developer not to think about such a boring task as application localization at all).
        (Language — English)
        Tags: .Net Core, Asp.Net Core, C#, Localization
        
        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.

     

    • • Andris Lubans from Intrum Global Technologies will give a talk “Controlling of messages flow in Microservices architecture”
        Microservices architecture has grown in popularity in recent years. It has many benefits like scalability, fault tolerance, independent deployability etc.
        A common question that comes up is “Should I use orchestration or a reactive approach in my system?”. The talk will be about reactive approach with coordinator.
        (Language — Russian)
        Tags: Microservices; Sagas; Masstransit
        
        Andris is lead developer in Intrum Global Technologies, has experience in migrating live system to microservices architecture, .Net and Microsoft stack.

     

    • • Arturs Karbone from If Insurance  will give a talk about “Use-Case-Driven Architecture in .NET”
        Brand new fancy frameworks appear quite often nowadays. Sometimes we as developers are trying to keep up to date by blindly chasing them. But is the investment worth?
        What business expects from us? Fancy frameworks or solid delivery pipeline?
        How can we focus on writing line of business code?
        How can we postpone architectural decisions about frameworks?
        How to make sure that your project structure reflects the business, not the technical brainfuck?
        Artur has been digging this topic for years and has a lot of real-life examples to share.
        (Language — Russian)
        Tags: .NET, Clean Code,  Architecture
        
        Artur is a seasoned, independent consultant, who went through enterprise applications of all kinds. He is enthusiastic about building and leading strong teams, revealing their potential and making smart people working with other smart people.Artur’s peers know how pragmatically he combines business-oriented thinking and fanatic passion for software development best practices like Domain-Driven Design, TDD, paired programming, writing clean code, etc. Before he went independent, he worked as an architect and a tech lead. In addition to that Artur is an active OSS contributor and blogs at Craftsman at Work.

     

    • • Intrum Global Technologies give away!
        Register and win WD external hard drive 4TB, Raspberry PI3 or Intrum backpack!

• Did you know that Riga Dev Days 2018 this year will have .Net dedicated track? They already have published large part of their schedule and workshops. Since Early Bird tickets are limited by amount and time – hurry to get your ticket .

• Did you know that we are organizing first front-end (web app) concepts and technologies focused conference FrontCon on June at 14-15? If you want to give a talk – submit your proposal.

• Did you know that Intrum Global Technologies will organize internal Hackathon at March 2018 and winners will go to participate in external Hackathon organized by Intrum and Tieto in Finland at April 2018?
  Intrum Global Technologies is looking for:
  – .NET/C# Full-Stack Developer
  – IT Manager (Data Management Area)
  – JAVA Developer

• Did you know that at Intexsys developers can dedicate up to 10% of their time to “Guild” work, where Guild members decide what they will work on?
  Intexsys is looking for:
  – Senior Database Developer (MS SQL)
  – PHP Developer
  – DevOps Engineer
  We promise – it will never be boring!

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

• Did you know that Tieto Latvia has a various exciting open positions? JOIN one of our fantastic teams! Tieto Latvia is currently looking for:
  – MS Dynamics AX Developer
  – Dynamics Retail Functional Consultant
  – Dynamics AX Support Specialist

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Hi!

Machine Learning is booming but not so many has real life experience with it. Some time ago we had Computer Vision focused event, but this time we invited experienced guys to share their knowledge how Machine Learning can be applied to solve other real life problems.

Come on January 25th at 18:30 to Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda of Machine Learning focused 62nd DevClub.lv:

• • • Arturs Valujevs from Intrum Global Technologies will give a talk How to Succeed with Machine Learning.
      There is certainly a growing demand for incorporating machine learning solutions into various types of business. Yet, the knowledge base is not always keeping up with hype around this subject. Some reports [source: Global CIO Point of View] tell us that 9 out of 10 CIOs plan to use machine learning solutions to achieve certain goals in their companies. Yet only around 20% actually have something in production and only 5% use machine learning extensivelly. Why? There are quite a few reasons, and that’s what this talk is all about.

      (Language — English)
      Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science

      Arturs is a data scientist in Intrum Global Technologies, has experience in developing machine learning solutions ranging from scoring to automated self learning systems.

    • Dmitrijs Lvovs from Epistatica will share some experiences on machine learning in production, with down to earth, real life examples in his Machine Learning in Production + Case Studies presentation.
      Epistatica is a data science spin-off from VIA SMS R&D SERVICES, searching its niche in European markets.

      (Language — English)
      Tags: R, Machine Learning, Credit Risk, Marketing Analytics, Data Science

      Dmitrijs is head of credit risk with VIA SMS R&D SERVICES, a fintech company, and member of the board at Epistatica, holds a PhD from RAS Institute for Information Transmission Problems and analyzed data for over 12 years.

  • • Raivis Skadiņš from Tilde will give a talk Artificial Intelligence and Bots.
      In this session, we will go through various aspects of Bot development. We will start with an introduction, where I will introduce Bots (sometimes called also virtual assistants or conversational interfaces), I will tell why they are so popular now and outline main benefits. I will explain main concepts behind this technology – dialog management, natural language understanding, intents, entities etc. Then I will show what tools and technologies are there and how a typical bot is built. Finally I will tell about current limitations and challenges to deal with. And I hope there will be time for questions, discussions and exchange of ideas. I believe you will get good insight into bot development and understanding how you could introduce Bots in your projects.

      (Language — Latvian)
      Tags: Bots, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

      Raivis  is the director of research and development at Tilde. He is leading development of Tilde’s language technology products – chatbots, virtual assistants, speech technologies, proofing tools, machine translation and others. Raivis has participated in several EU FP7 and Horizon 2020 research projects, currently involved in project QT21 (finding novel methods for machine translation) and several national research projects. His main research interest is machine translation, and he has received Dr. Comp. Sc. degree in 2012  and is the author and a co-author of more than 35 scientific publications.

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Did you know that Tieto Latvia has a various exciting open positions? JOIN one of our fantastic teams! Tieto Latvia is currently looking for:
– Junior PL/SQL Developer
– Oracle programmatūras izstrādātājs
– Siebel CRM atbalsta konsultants

Did you know Intrum Justitia Software Development Centre has become Intrum Global Technologies since December 2017 and continues to provide IT services for the Intrum group uniting more than 160 IT professionals in Latvia?
Intrum Global Technologies is looking for:
– Data Scientist
– Java Developer
– .NET/C# Developer

Did you know that at Intexsys developers can dedicate up to 10% of their time to “Guild” work, where Guild members decide what they will work on?
Intexsys is currently looking for:
– Senior Database Developer (MS SQL)
– PHP Developer
– DevOps Engineer
We promise – it will never be boring!

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:

Hi!

Let’s talk about data this time.

Come on December 7th at 18:30 to Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Data focused 61st DevClub.lv:

• Edgars Francis from Scope Technology will give a talk D-Insight – An Analytics Platform for Analyzing and Characterizing Driving Behavior
  D-Insight is a powerful analytics platform used for Analyzing and Characterizing Driving Behavior, Driving Context, Insurance Risk, and Revenue Modeling. With powerful and flexible excel-like formulas it empowers insurance companies to analyse driver behaviour – how, where, when and under what circumstances insurance clients have driven.
  D-Insight is used by Insurance Companies to create their Usage-Based Insurance (UBI) products, and the platform supports both “Pay-As-You-Drive” (PAYD) and “Pay-How-You-Drive” (PHYD) product where the insurance premiums are calculated dynamically, according to the driver behaviour.

  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: SQL Server Analyses Services, Cubes, Warehouse, MDX, UBI, PAYD, PHYD

  Edgars is a Product Owner and Team Leader at Scope Technology. He has over 12 years experience in Software Development, and has more than 7 years experience in Telematics Analytics. His technical passions and specialisations include a Data Warehousing and Analytics Technologies, and Advanced SQL Server Technologies, such as SSAS, SSIS and SSRS.

• Yury Nevinitsin  from Odnoklassniki.ru  will share an successful experience of deploying Druid in place of MSSQL
  “Druid is a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store” http://druid.io
  I will tell how they solved the situation when MSSQL-based statistics system (50TB sized) became:
  – slow: average response time was many times slower than required
  – unstable: at peak hours it was up to 30 minutes late
  – expensive: expences for Microsoft licences could be millions USD.
  In Odnoklassniki.ru Druid is used to store and query operational statistics for the last 2 years. At the moment we process tens billons records each day (hundreds gigabytes by size).
  Why Druid?
  We chose druid (among open-source solutions) because it promised us high-performance, scalability and fault-tolerance. All three properties were required, and there were no other solution at the moment of making decision.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Java, distributed system, fault-tolerance, column-oriented db, OLAP
  Yury is a senior developer at Odnoklassniki.ru, working on statistics system back-end. In the past he was lead developer in Moi Mir@Mail.ru  social network.

• Bogdan Ozerkin from SIA Dynatech will give a talk Log management in a Service architecture
  When you implement service architecture, there are many ways to screw up, one of which would be to miss out on debugging solutions. As you detect problems in your services, valuable insights on what’s going on “inside” should be available, in order to be able to react on incident and provide solutions faster. In this talk, I would like to dig in to the nature of logging, providing an overview on what it is and how do it in a Service architecture. Additionally tell You a story about how we created an Ad hoc solution for our infrastructure

  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Log management, monitoring, php, clickhouse, events

  Bogdans is a solution architect at Dyntach, whos in charge of DWH systems and Infrastructure support systems, likes to create weird solutions which actually work and are easy to support.

Did you know that Intrum Justitia Software Development Centre is going to have a new name from mid of December?
Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Data Scientist
– DWH/BI developer
– IT operations specialist

Did you know that during Cyber Monday Intexsys team supports E-Commerce platform handling over 300 requests/second?
Intexsys is currently looking for:
– Senior Database Developer (MS SQL)
– PHP Developer
– DevOps Engineer
We promise – it will never be boring!

ALSO Cloud Latvia keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people. In particular, they are looking for data nerd, errr… Data Analyst/Data Warehouse expert.

Did you know that Tieto Latvia has a various exciting open positions? JOIN one of our fantastic teams! Tieto Latvia is currently looking for:
– Integration specialist
– Java izstrādātājs
– Siebel CRM atbalsta konsultants

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