Dear DevClubbers,
We are happy to invite you an open doors event in the MOVE Guides offices in Tallinn on Wednesday, September 13th at 19:00. This is a Mini-DevClub, as capacity is strictly limited to 40 people and registration is mandatory. Please also free the ticket, if you are not able to come.
MOVE Guides acquired an Estonian startup Teleport back in March, and we’ve been busy bringing our people, products and data closer together since. We thought it would be now a good time to get the local tech community together to share a bit about what’s up: have a few beers, network and talk shop with a few quick technical talks on our latest learnings from building software some of the largest enterprises in the world use to manage their mobile workforce, and their employees use while moving.
We have beers, snacks and three inspiring topics on the menu:
Technical challenges of building SaaS software for Fortune 500 customers by Steve Giles, VP Engineering (London)
What’s it like selling a transformational, disruptive technology to Fortune 500 companies? What are the differences to consumer products or more traditional tech products? How does tech influence the sales cycle? Once the contract is signed, what can you expect next? These might sound like distant business topics, but they have a very tangible impact on you as a software developer: what does your architecture have to support, what you can and can not do when building, what are the security expectations, even what tools you can use. We share some experience and lessons on the way from startup to accepted SaaS vendor to the largest enterprises.
Componentized Frontend Architecture by Hendrik Kaju, Front-end engineer (Tallinn)
Discussions around FE development are usually focused on frameworks and less on principles, but the latter is often more important to successfully building large web apps. Component-based architecture is a pattern for building applications that are scalable and maintainable even as they grow bigger and more complex. This quick talk gives an overview of how we have applied this approach at MOVE Guides/Teleport and what we’ve learned from it.
Security in the Age of Containers by Joonathan Mägi, Tech Lead (Tallinn)
Container technologies like Docker and Rkt have radically changed the way that applications are being developed and deployed making shipping new features or code faster than ever before. While containers are great for DevOps, they also present risks that have been traditionally tackled by Ops and Security teams. What are the things to watch out for and are there any quick wins to implement in your environment.
Followed by Q&A, discussion, office tour and networking until about 10pm.
Look forward to seeing you at 19:00 on 13.09.2017 at MOVE Guides / Teleport office, Lõõtsa 8 in Ülemiste City, 9th floor.
Agenda
Using design sprint method in a product company
Kirill Slavetski
Product designed and researcher @ Jobbatical
The design sprint is a five-day process developed at GV (previously Google Ventures). The process helps find answers to critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. The approach allows to shortcut the endless debate cycle and compress months of time into a single week. In his talk, Kirill will give an overview of the sprint structure, and will share some experience of using this approach in Jobbatical product design team.
Infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation
Andres Ivanov
Head of Infrastructure @ Inbank
Average AWS account for a small startup has over 100 resources, creating and designing them manually removes any possibilities for fast scaling and recovery.
Code, continuous delivery and scripts are not the only things to version control, Infrastructure can be written down and versioned same way.
Andres will demonstrate how to automate the infrastructure at AWS and explain benefits of it.
He also will guide through possible problems discovered from Infrastructure automating and explain solutions for them.
Agenda
1. How to become an entrepreneur: the story of a software developer.
Martin Kiuru
CTO @ Make IT Work
About choices, opportunities, obstacles and dangers on a way to own company.
2. From 3000 to 500 (ms) – nature to action.
Kalle Volkov
Head of Server Services @ Starship Technologies
About achieving 500 millisecond timing from image in nature to operator panel to action that robot fulfills.