Year: 2016

It’s been couple weeks since our last event, so here’s the follow-up:

Last devclub was hosted in Transferwise new office in Baltika district. It is located almost exactly where their previous office was, right the opposite building. Transferwise is really great host, made this event special and guests feel very welcome. We’d love to come again to them with Devclub the other time.

This time we had four speakers and three talks. First one was by Erko Risthein from Transferwise. The talk was more financial than technical. It was about currency rate change risk management and how to perform money transactions with different currencies and not loose money when currency exchange rate is changed. The idea is quite simple, yet really smart. Each time you sell some amount in one currency you buy equivalent value in other currency and vice versa. This ables you to lock the exchange rate between these two currencies at certain state that existed at the moment when transaction started. It is called currency hedging. Erko did great job explaining this concept in his talk, I’m really glad I had a chance to hear and see him. Now I have good understanding on the subject.

Second talk was also by Transferwise engineers Dmitry Zhukov and Maksims Juvcenko. Their talk was about how they built a fraud detection engine. It was a story about how the project evolved and how the guys helped it to get better. How to get started when everything needs to be fixed and everything is important. How to make decisions and prioritize in though circumstances.

Can’t really say much about the last talk as I did it myself. Probably it was epic 🙂 I was talking about AWS Lambda – what it is, how we use it for our needs in Folkefinans and how you might want to use it.

There was an office tour after the talks too, had to skip this one so can’t really say much about the office. From what I managed to see it looked really nice, definitely a place you want to be in.

Unfortunately there’s no pics from the event this time, but at least we managed to record the videos of the talks (here, here and here), so there’s a great way for you to follow-up if you missed it. This is pretty much about it. Thank you and see you at the next Devclub really soon!

Last tuesday we had one of the most crowded devclub so far. Awesome vibe, good emotions and great talks. On behalf of DevClub team I want to thank the speakers and the audience for making it happen. Special thanks goes to Pipedrive for being very welcoming host, we’d love to come to you with DevClub again one day.

We had two talks this time, they were very different and both were great.

First on the stage was Martin Tajur, the CTO of Pipedrive. His talk was about event-driven architecture and about RabbitMQ in particular. This quite hot topic among tech people for last several years already. The talk was an introduction to RabbitMQ, really high value for people who’d like to get started with event-driven architecture but lack the basic knowledge. The feedback was really good also, lots of interest and questions from the audience.

The second talk by Anton Keks, software developer at Codeborne was about encryption and digital signatures. Anton told a story about how easy and common it is in Estonia and how much effort it takes to implement digital signing in other countries on example of Russia. The talk was really live and interesting, included some historical background on topic and some interesting facts, such why two different private keys are used for authentication and digital signing given that the technology behind both actions is exactly the same. There was also live discussion with Anton after the talk.

After the talks Pipedrive organized a guided office tour, which was really nice of them. Photos and videos of both talks are available below.

Google photos, video of Martin’s talk and video of Anton’s talk.

See you in March on our next event hosted at Transferwise!