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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!

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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

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Hi!

This time lets talk about Pipeline Automation!

Come at 23rd November 18:30 to Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda of Pipeline Automation focused 60th DevClub.lv:

• Roman Shumkov from Intexsys will give a talk “Continuous Delivery Pipeline at High Scale”
  Lessons learned from implementing Continuous Delivery Pipeline using PHP, Symfony2, Behat, PhantomJS, Deployer, Docker and Bamboo.
  Some highlights:
  – Build Automation with 30+ hours of build time per day
  – Continuous Integration with 500+ hours of testing time per day
  – Horizontal Scalability
  – 20-30 minutes for code changes to be built, tested and delivered to production

  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: CI, CD, Symfony2, Docker, Behat, PhantomJS, Deployer, Bamboo

  Roman is a Software Architect at Intexsys with more than 14 years of experience in IT industry.

• Arturs Bartusevics from Tieto Latvia will give a talk “Reusable Jenkins Configuration and Automation for Enterprises”
  – A problem with Jenkins setup and configuration in the large enterprises;- Conception “Jenkins + Docker + Jenkins Plugins + Scripts”
  – Getting Jenkins, which is ready to automate everything, in 5 minutes;
  – Setup of Automation with Jenkins as a repeatable enterprise standard;
  – Demo, demo, demo…
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Jenkins, Continuous Delivery, Automation

Arturs is Senior Configuration Manager at Tieto Latvia, professors assistant at RTU, Unit of Software Engineering. Arturs has 9 years experience working with automation of software deliveries and implementation of continuous deployment and delivery processes. At 2015 has defended PHD diploma at RTU.

• Dmitry Buzdin from Riga DevDays will give a talk “Continuous Testing at Scale”
  With the raise of Continuous Delivery test automation is becoming a norm rather than luxury. However, when dealing with high-complexity, large and modular projects you would be disappointed to learn that it is a challenge to set-up a fully automated continuous testing pipeline. The problems you are encountering are tool incompatibility and general lack of suitable solutions to scale out test automation processes. Imagine tens of thousands of automated test cases, which are required to be run for a product to be fully tested.
  During this talk Dmitry will answer the following questions:
  – How do you run your automated tests in a shortest time frame possible?
  – How do you know if your functional test coverage is improving?
  – How do you select and run the most appropriate test cases?
  – How do you get actionable insight from your testing process results?
  – How do you know if it is safe to release software package to production?
  This presentation will guide you though a journey of building and improving test automation pipeline based on Jenkins in a large telco organisation with hundreds of thousands test executions performed on daily basis. By looking at this example it would possible to see what tools are missing at the market currently and where test automation industry should focus efforts next. The talk will outline examples of micro services developed to fill the functional gaps. This experience would be beneficial and applicable in your next large-scale CD project.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Continuous Delivery, Automation, Jenkins

Dmitry is a software architect specialising in Java, DevOps and Test Automation. He and several of his colleagues, has founded a local consultancy company helping customers with fintech solutions. Dmitry is organising Riga DevDays conference, Latvian Java User Group meetups and Rig Test Automation Club events.

Did you know that Intexsys is behind online store, which is selling more than 1 000 000 different products?
Intexsys is currently looking for:
– 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:
– Ruby On Rails Developers
– Java izstrādātājs
– Database Administrator

Did you know that Intrum Justitia Software Development Centre is going to have a new brand and name already in December this year?
Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– PL/SQL Developer
– Test automation specialist
– FullStack .NET Developer/ .NET Programmētājs

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

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Hi!

Agile practices has proven them in Start-ups and in projects for small teams. But can Agile practices be useful in Large Scale projects?

Come to figure it out at  28th September 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Large Scale Agile focused 59th DevClub.lv:

• Alek Kozlov from Scrum.ee will give a talk “How to Make Goal-Oriented Objective Decisions faster”
  This session is an introduction into Make “Goal-Oriented Objective Decisions” (mGOOD) framework. mGOOD is systematical approach for making good money/decisions/lives systematically in our highly competitive, hostile and ever changing Business environment.
  mGOOD shows how your company’s Business Goal and Cost of Delay are positioning your company offerings on the market.
  mGOOD provide you, your team, your company with extremely fast guidance on useful strategies, needed skills, tools (eg. Scrum, Less, Kanban, SLA, ITIL) and risks that should be considered.
  It was useful for large organisations having many products, for organisation purchasing product development services from Software Development houses and was proved to be extremely useful for Public Sector organisations.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Business Goal, Cost of Delay, Business Agility, System thinking, Lean, Agile, Scrum, Less, Kanban, ITIL, Lean StartUp, Hypotheses, Experiments, procurement.

Alek is a Product Strategist and Organisational Coach helping organisations to decentralize control without losing economical alignment (translation: I’m helping leaders to earn good money, build trust in people judgment and not becoming a jackass-dictator)

• Filips Jeļisejevs from Also Cloud Latvia will give a talk “Automating away your Product Owner”
  Is your project so large that Product Owner just does not cope? Are your business people not engaged? Do your stakeholders regularly miss demo’s because they are busy?
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Voting, Feature Prioritization

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.

• Kārlis Cinis from Tieto Latvia will give a talk “Scaling with LeSS”
  Have you ever thought about scaling Scrum? Scrum is nice and beautiful framework for one team – a team that is working closely together, is self-managing, cross-functional with T-shaped competences and has shared responsibility for team’s work. But what if you want more of this beauty? How should you scale?
  I will explain basics behind Scrum scaling framework called LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) and share some experience about implementing it.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: LeSS, Scaling, Agile, Scrum

Kārlis is Scrum Master at Tieto for almost 2 years now and has been participating in implementing LeSS in Tieto Retail Payments and Cards from the start. He also has over 10 years of experience in the role of project manager. Kārlis is passionate about hiking in mountains, running and having a long sleep on Saturday mornings.

FYI – For people who want to learn the deep roots of Agile – there are few places left to Advanced Agile Development Masterclass by Dr Alistair Cockburn. Use DevClubLV as a code to get 150 Eur discount.

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

Did you know that Tieto Latvia is not only always looking for a new talents but we also run various interest clubs? We are proud of our strategic board games club, motor-bike club, active lifestyle club etc. Join the team:
– Senior Database Administrator (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
– Product Manager for Database Platforms
– Database Administrator

Did you know that due to Intrum Justitia and Lindorff combination there will be a new brand for the combined company? Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– PL/SQL Developer with .Net skills
– Application and Database Administrator

Did you know that Intexsys is behind online store, which is selling more than 1 000 000 different products?
Intexsys is currently looking for:
– PHP Developer
– DevOps Engineer 
– Project Manager
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!

DevOps – is it just a buzz word or you can really do it? We invited three experienced guys to share their experience how they have succeeded with DevOps.

See you at 24th August 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for DevOps focused 58th DevClub.lv:

• Ilgvars Jēcis from FinoTech will give a talk “Practical DevOps by a small team of devs”
  Are you in the project which needs ten thousand auto-scaled docker containers on Kubernetes in a multi-regional AWS deployment?
  Right.. we also have never done that. Nevertheless, you still might need DevOps ‘magic’ to deliver those boring everyday IT projects on time and budget.
  I will tell our journey with DevOps at a small IT shop and share tools & practices we have tried and which of them were useful and which were total overkill.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: keep-it-simple, lean, automation, ansible, postgres, google cloud, continuous delivery

Ilgvars is founder & developer at FinoTech. He’s been working in IT field for more than 15 years and still kind of enjoys it. Things he likes even more: cooking & eating, few sports activities and finally beer.

• Daniel Houston from Accenture will give a talk “Building DevOps pipelines for scale: Supporting infrastructure for 1000’s of build pipelines with 4 developers”
  Everyone talks about how the want to adopt DevOps practices for building their code, but time and time again I hear “We don’t have the resources” or “We tried it and the developers found it more effort than use.”
  We’ll talk about how providing your own IaC platforms using Docker, Jenkins and Ansible can help the amount of projects your DevOps engineers can support scale nearly indefinitely; how it helps to educate your developers and how we went from some teams not even using CI, to it only taking a matter of hours to produce releasable binaries.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, CI, CD, CM

Daniel is a DevOps Tech lead in Accenture Riga, he moved to Latvia from the UK in July.
Daniel was a part of the founding DevOps team in IBM, Cambridge, where he supported the build and test infrastructure, as well as producing tooling for the development of multiple enterprise level products. Through DevOps practices, Daniel managed to reduce the time it took IBM Cambridges documentation team to produce releasable deliverables from weeks down to a matter of hours.
Daniel worked in IBM for around 5 years, while he was there he took part in a number of patent groups, He is a named inventor on an Intelligent route navigation patent  and has some patents awaiting publish.

• Chris Willmore from SaleMove will give a talk “Dive into Kubernetes”
  Kubernetes has burst onto the scene to become the pre-eminent containerized application orchestration system.
  Chris will quickly introduce you to core Kubernetes concepts, then dive into how at SaleMove engineers migrated 30+ services over to the system. We’ll talk about what worked, what didn’t, and how you can take the leap and get the most out of Kubernetes.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Kubernetes, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Containers, AWS

Chris is VP of Engineering at SaleMove, where engineers are revolutionizing the online customer experience. Chris began his career working in Silicon Valley and London with Yahoo!. After moving to Tartu, Estonia, he ran a small development firm building systems for Shazam (the worlds most popular music recognition app) (his team designed and built the content ingestion system bringing music, lyrics, and artwork into Shazam).
Recent cool projects his team has been working on:
– Incorporating IBM’s Watson to power recommendations for Sales and Customer Care
– Their customer engagement system recently went live on Tesla.com – You can buy a Tesla or SolarCity solar panels using their system.
When not working, he enjoys scifi literature and keeping his garden weed-free. For the past 4 years, Chris has helped run the Tartu Software Developers Guild.

BTW – we have bag of souvenirs (t-shirts, socks, water bottle, some more) from DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2017. Come, be active and you can be one of happy winners of some of them.

DevOpsDays Riga 2017 Program is mostly published and now is good time to hurry up to get Early Bird tickets before they run out.

Did you know that Tieto Latvia is not only always looking for a new talents but we also run various interest clubs? We are proud of our strategic board games club, motor-bike club, active lifestyle club etc. Join the team!
Send your CV and Motivation letter to darbs@tieto.com .

Did you know that Scope Technologies provides innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services using latest .NET stack technologies?

Did you know that more than 20 teams are working on various software projects at Intrum Justitia Software Development Centre? Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– PL/SQL Developer
– Front-End Developer
– .NET/C# Developer

Did you know that Intexsys is behind online store, which is selling more than 1 000 000 different products?
Intexsys is currently looking for:
– Project Manager – work with largest e-commerce clients and Intexsys talented team
– PHP Developer– as always, all level from Junior to Super-senior are welcome
– Android Developer – work on creating best native Android e-commerce apps
We promise – it will never be boring!

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!

To PHP or to large scale PHP, that is the question! 🙂

Please pay attention that this time we meet at Vienības gatve 109 (Unity Biznesa centrs) 1.st floor at 27th July 18:30 and be ready to stay for Afterparty at the roof terrace (same building) at Intexsys office to celebrate DevClub.lv’s 5th birthday. 🙂

Agenda for PHP focused 57th DevClub.lv:

• Sergey Chernecov from Intexsys will give a talk “Wake up, Neo! There are emails to send! Follow the RabbitMQ!”
  I strongly believe that small, self-organized teams make cool things and want to share my experience of working with incredibly gifted colleagues on building the system with PHP that sends about 1.5M personalized emails per day within an hour from scratch.
  Real-time segmentation, multiple data providers, monitoring and… you know… money.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: php, rabbitmq, elasticsearch, kibana, behat 3, messaging integration patterns, api, react, continuous delivery

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

• Roman Shumkov from Intexsys will give a talk “Application logging, monitoring and alerting at high scale”
  Overview of common problems and not so common solutions when huge amounts of large scale PHP application logs are getting out of control, but we need to maintain quality and react quickly on every error.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: php, elk, splunk, jira, alerting, quality

Roman is a Software Architect at Intexsys with more than 14 years of experience in IT industry.

• 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!

This year we are organizing first DevOpsDays conference in Riga‘s history. Call for Papers is over and now Content group is working hard to make program live next week. If you are interested in DevOps, catch up Very Early Bird tickets before 26th of July.

Did you know that Scope Technologies provides innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services using latest .NET stack technologies?

Did you know that from June 27 Intrum Justitia Software Development Centre is part of a bigger group as two great companies – Intrum Justitia and Lindorff – have combined  to enhance service offering and innovative solutions?
Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– BI Developer
– .NET/C# Developer
– Scrum Master

Did you know, that Intexsys is sponsoring DevClub’s afterparty at it’s awesome roof terrace for the third time this year?
Intexsys is currently looking for:
– Project Manager – work with largest e-commerce clients and Intexsys talented team
– PHP Developer– as always, all level from Junior to Super-senior are welcome
– Android Developer – work on creating best native Android e-commerce apps
We promise – it will never be boring!

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

Do you know that Tieto Latvia is not only always looking for a new talents but we also run various interest clubs? We are proud of our strategic board games club, motor-bike club, active lifestyle club etc. Join the team!
Send your CV and Motivation letter to darbs@tieto.com .

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