Upadated Almost Java focused 151st DevClub.lv

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There have been changes to the agenda once again. Our first speaker, Norberts Kakste, will be replaced by Māris Ločmelis.
See the updated agenda below.

You are welcome to Almost Java focused event on Thursday, March 12, 18:30, at C.T.Co office– Meistaru iela 33, Valdlauci, Kekavas parish, Kekavas district.

Agenda for “Almost Java” focused 151st DevClub.lv

• Anton Ragutskii from Teya will give a presentation “Durable Execution in Practice: Eliminating Failure Classes in Distributed Systems with Temporal”
  Modern high-load backend systems and distributed architectures often look solid on paper — yet in production they can become brittle, difficult to reason about, and surprisingly expensive to operate. Retries pile up, partial failures turn into incidents, and long-running business processes become a maze of timeouts, compensations, and “what if” logic spread across multiple services.
  In this talk, Anton will share practical lessons from real systems in fintech, gaming, and enterprise platforms, and explain how durable execution and workflow-as-code approaches — powered by Temporal — can help model long-running processes in a way that is observable, testable, and resilient by design. You’ll see how this approach can eliminate entire classes of failures that teams often accept as “just how distributed systems work.”
  (Language – English)
  
  Anton Ragutskii – I am a Staff Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and operating high-load backend systems and distributed architectures. Most of my work is focused on building reliable production services using Java, Spring Boot, and modern cloud-native tooling.
  Over the years, working with complex systems across fintech, gaming, and enterprise platforms, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat: architectures evolve fast, but reliability and operational clarity often degrade over time. That pushed me to look for better ways to model long-running business processes and handle failure in distributed systems.
  
  
• Martins Ceske from C.T.Co will be giving a talk about “From Prompt to Production: AI-Assisted Development for Java Engineers”
  In this session Martins will demonstrate how AI tools can be integrated into the everyday workflow of a software developer. The talk will show a complete development process powered by AI — starting from generating a story with acceptance criteria, continuing with creating tests, implementing the feature, and finishing with AI-assisted code review and technology evaluation. The goal is to show how AI can act as a powerful development assistant that helps engineers move faster while still keeping developers in control of design and architecture decisions.
  (Language – English)
  
  Martins Ceske is a senior Java software engineer with extensive experience building enterprise backend systems using Java and the Spring ecosystem. He is particularly interested in software architecture, developer productivity, and exploring how modern AI tools can enhance the way developers design, build, and maintain software systems.
  
  
• Māris Ločmelis will give a talk titled “Things to Make Your Life Easier When Building Complex Apps in Java.”
  This session will provide several structural examples of how to make your application more predictable and, in my opinion, demonstrate the correct use of abstraction in Java. There will be practical examples of bad code (and the reasons why it is bad) as well as examples of good code (and the reasons why it is good). We will also touch on package management tools such as Gradle or Maven, focusing on what is important to understand when adding dependencies and managing your project. This talk will help you understand how to correctly structure your application and prevent it from becoming spaghetti code.
  (Language – English)
  
  Tags: Java, Code Quality, Dependency Management.
  
  Māris Ločmelis is a Senior Backend-focused Full Stack Developer. He specializes in improving existing systems by optimizing and reworking legacy components into more modern and maintainable solutions. Recently, he has been working primarily in corporate environments with cloud-heavy infrastructure.
  

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