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🧠 AI + Kotlin = Your Own “Second Brain” Join us on October 15 to explore how to build your own tool for capturing ideas, notes, and thoughts – and then using AI to quickly find whatever you need. Your data stays with you, without unnecessary subscriptions, SaaS lock-in, or reliance on third-party services. 🚀 We’ll cover how to: 📱 Turn Android into a convenient tool for capturing ideas 🤖 Use AI to search and organize your knowledge ⚡ Run your product on Android, Desktop, CLI, and more 🛠️ Build a working version in just one weekend 🎤 Yury Vashchylau – Lead Product Engineer 👉 Join the meetup Event details: ⏰ Time: 16:00 CEST 🕒 Duration: 60 minutes 🗣️ Language: English 💻 Online: The streaming link will be sent to the email address provided during registration. 🚀 Don’t put your ideas on hold. Register and build your own knowledge system. See you there! 💼 Our vacancies

🪤 Do you really need to keep up with every new in-demand skill? Every month brings a new set of “must-have” skills for the job market. It can feel like you need to learn everything, right now. 🫠 But what if you don’t need to start from scratch? At the meetup, we’ll explore how to: 🧠 Understand what’s worth learning 💼 Identify what the market is willing to pay you for 🚀 Figure out where to take your career next 🎯 Show employers what makes your expertise valuable 🎤 Kristina Zozulia, Co-founder of The Rolevia, will help us make sense of it all. 👉 Register for the meetup Event details: ⏰ Time: 17:00 (CEST) 🕒 Duration: 1 hour 🗣 Language: English 💻 Online: we’ll send the streaming link to the email address provided during registration. See you there! 🚀

☁️🤖 A New Perspective on QA: From Cloud Components to AI How is QA evolving as applications become more complex and AI becomes part of everyday testing? 👀 📅 October 7 | QA Meetup in Bengaluru 📍 Offline: Sunhive office, Bengaluru 💻 Online: streaming available 🎤 Nishant Gohel – Backend Automation Engineer Cloud: Tested or Just Trusted? Practical approaches to testing cloud components, finding issues early, and improving reliability. 🎤 Sanjay Kumar – Founder & Creator of SelectorsHub Your Daily QA Problems – Solved (With and Without AI) Real-world QA challenges and practical solutions using AI, automation, and useful tools — including where AI actually helps. ⏰ 19:00 IST / 15:30 CEST 🕒 2 hours | 🗣 English 🔗 Register here 🧠 Two practical talks, real-world examples, and ideas you can use right away. See you at the meetup! 🚀

🤖 Can a chatbot save your mental health? IT is intense: deadlines, context-switching, late-night debugging — and AI is making the pace even faster. 🌀 Many of us now use AI not only for work, but to vent, organize thoughts, rehearse difficult conversations, or simply feel “heard” at 2 AM. And honestly? It helps. ✅ • 24/7 and judgment-free • Helps structure thoughts • A great practice partner But here’s the catch. ⚠️ AI can’t replace a hug, human presence, or real connection. From a preventive medicine perspective, AI can be a first step — but it should lead toward people, not away from them. AI should be a bridge, not a bunker. 🌉 💬 Are we using technology to help us connect — or to avoid connecting? Have you ever used AI to prepare for a difficult conversation?

🎓 September 24 | How to Enter IT in 2026 — and Get Your First Job Offer 👀 AI is changing the IT job market. What skills actually matter in 2026 — and what can help you go from learning to your first commercial project? 📍 Andersen IT Community × Andersen Trainee Program invite aspiring IT specialists to an online meetup. 🔹 Two tech stacks instead of one — the new learning approach 🔹 AI from day one — tools every IT specialist should know 🔹 From application to job offer — selection criteria & common mistakes 🔹 Real stories from graduates — what helped them enter commercial projects 🔹 Q&A with the speaker 👩‍💻 Speaker: Yana Pryiezzhykh, Lead Education Coordinator at Andersen 📅 September 24 ⏰ 16:00 CEST | 1 hour 🗣 English | 💻 Online 🎯 Perfect for: aspiring IT specialists, students, recent graduates and anyone planning to apply for an internship. 👉 Register here More about Andersen Trainee Program: 📱Telegram 📱Apply for traineeship

🧠 Lode Coding: Giving Your AI Assistant a Persistent Memory AI coding assistants can write code, but without project context, every new session can feel like starting from scratch. 📅 September 22 - join us to explore Lode Coding, AI-owned knowledge bases, AGENTS.md, preserving architectural decisions, and lessons from months of real-world experience. 🎤 Speaker: Pavel Osadchuk — Principal .NET Engineer & Software Architect, 15+ years in software development. ⏰ 16:00 CEST | 🕒 45 min | 🗣 English | 💻 Online 🔗 Save your spot: here 💡 Less context loss, more value from AI. See you there! 🚀 💼 Our vacancies

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👁🎨 Back to BI dashboards! On September 17, we're meeting with Darya Drobova again for “Best Practices for Effective BI Dashboards” 🎯 We’ll talk about: → why dashboards fail even when they look good; → how to reduce visual clutter; → UI/UX practices for faster data understanding; → real-world examples + practical checklists. 🎙 Darya Drobova, Principal BI Developer at EffectiveSoft, 12+ years in BI. ⏰ 19:00 Minsk / 18:00 CEST 🕒 1 hour | Russian 📍 Offline: Andersen office, Minsk 💻 Online: stream link after registration 🎫 Register here 🔥 Ready to make your dashboards clearer and more useful? Join us on September 17!

💡 SQL tip One SQL topic especially useful for backend testing is subqueries. A few patterns worth remembering: 🔹 IN (SELECT...) - dynamically filter records without manually copying IDs. 🔹 EXISTS - quickly check whether related data exists. 🔹 NOT EXISTS - find missing relationships. Very useful for spotting data inconsistencies. 🔹 WHERE value > (SELECT AVG(...)) - compare records against an overall value, such as an average. The key takeaway: you don't need to memorize every syntax pattern. Think about what your main query needs and how another query can provide it. For QA, this is especially useful when investigating API responses and checking what actually happened in the database. 📖 More details: Linkedin #QA #SQL #SoftwareTesting #DatabaseTesting #BackendTesting

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How to Prioritize Test Cases When You Have No Time You’ll never have enough time to test everything. The real skill is knowing what to test first. When deadlines are tight, I use a simple risk-based approach: 🔹 Prioritize high-impact and high-risk areas 🔹 Check what actually changed in the release 🔹 Cover critical user journeys 🔹 Use automation to identify testing gaps 🔹 Focus on modules with a history of defects 🔹 Timebox testing to avoid getting stuck 🔹 Be transparent about what was and wasn’t tested The goal isn’t to test less — it’s to make better testing decisions under constraints. 👉 More info: LinkedIn How do you prioritize testing?

🚒 Production Failure Stories: How We Saved Production “Production is down!” – the message no engineer ever wants to see. 😅 On August 27, join Mikhail Shtura (Tech Lead / Architect, Sam Solutions) for real production incidents, their root causes, and lessons learned — no theory, just practical cases. 🔥 A bot taking down a search service ⚡️ Why Redis Cluster doesn’t guarantee HA 👻 Where “ghost” services come from 📡 How workloads can overwhelm a cluster 🛠 Turning hotfixes into long-term solutions 🎯 For: Java Developers, Team Leads, Architects, SREs & anyone working with production systems. ⏰ 19:00 Minsk / 18:00 CEST | 🕒 1 hour 🗣 Russian | 📍 Offline: Andersen Minsk 💻 Online stream available after registration 🎟 Register here

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How to Test Microservices Without Going Crazy 🧩 Microservices change not only architecture, but also how we test. A service can work perfectly on its own while the whole system is broken. The biggest risks often appear at service boundaries: incompatible contracts, changed schemas, timeouts, retries, duplicated messages, and unexpected assumptions. A balanced strategy looks like this: 🧪 Unit tests → business logic 🔌 Integration tests → realistic interactions 📜 Contract tests → service boundaries 🌐 E2E tests → critical user journeys 📊 Production validation → real-world behaviour Don't make E2E tests responsible for everything. A few critical scenarios can provide more confidence than hundreds of fragile E2E tests. The goal isn't to have the maximum number of tests. It's to have the right tests answering the right questions at the right level. 👉 Read the full post on LinkedIn What would you add to this testing strategy?

🚒 Putting Out Production Fires: Real Stories, Real Lessons “Production is down!” — the message no engineer ever wants to see 😅 On August 27, join “Production Failure Stories – How We Saved Production”, where Mikhail Shtura (Tech Lead / Architect, Sam Solutions) will share real production incidents, root causes, and practical lessons. 🔥 How a single bot can take down a search service ⚡️ Why Redis Cluster isn't a guarantee of high availability 👻 Where “ghost” services come from 📡 How useful workloads can overwhelm an entire cluster 🛠 How to turn a hotfix into a long-term safeguard 🎯 For: Java Developers, Team Leads, Architects, SREs, and anyone working with production systems. 📅 August 27 ⏰ 19:00 Minsk / 18:00 CEST 🕒 1 hour 🗣 Russian 📍 Offline: Andersen office, Minsk 💻 Online: streaming link will be sent by email after registration 🎟 Register here Learn from other people's production mistakes — it's cheaper and far less stressful 😉 ⭐️ Join Andersen IT Community: LinkedIn

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🚀 Tactical Forking in Practice: An Approach to Microservices Migration Thinking about moving from a monolith to microservices but worried about cost, time, and risks? Join our meetup on August 26 to learn how tactical forking can help evolve your system gradually without a complete rebuild. 🔹 Why migration is difficult when modularity is lacking 🔹 When tactical forking makes sense 🔹 How to implement it without disrupting development 🔹 Its impact on architecture, processes, and teams 🎙 Speaker: Mohamed Taman — Solutions Architect at Andersen, Java Champion, JCP member, TOGAF-certified architect, and Azure-certified professional with 22+ years of experience. 💡 For Architects, Tech Leads, Java & Backend Developers, and anyone involved in software modernization. 📅 August 26 ⏰ 17:30 CEST 🗣 English 💻 Online 🔗 Register here

🐹 Go developers, this one's for you! gRPC in Production: What They Don't Tell You in the Getting Started Guide Production gRPC comes with challenges that tutorials rarely cover. Join Dmitry Kudryashov (Software Engineer at Andersen) to learn how gRPC really works in production, the most common pitfalls, and practical tips to avoid them. ✨ gRPC for microservices ⚡️ What happens during an RPC call 🛠 Production pitfalls & best practices 📋 Practical production checklist 🎟 Register here ⏰ 19:00 (Tbilisi, GMT+4) / 17:00 (CEST) 🗣 Russian 📍 Offline (Andersen Tbilisi) + Online

🚀 Selenium vs Playwright in Python: what to choose? Which tool fits your project better? At this meetup, we’ll compare both frameworks in practice and discuss: • why tests become flaky • Selenium vs Playwright: key differences • how auto-waiting improves stability • speed, convenience, and real project experience • how to choose the right tool 🎤 Speaker: Anton Semenchenko — CTO at Alfa Algorithm, Senior Lecturer at BSU, founder of COMAQA, 20+ years in software development and test automation. 🧠 Who should attend: QA engineers, automation beginners, QA Leads, and Engineering Managers. 📅 19:00 (Minsk, GMT+3) / 18:00 (CEST) 🗣 Language: Russian 📍 Offline: Andersen office (Minsk) 💻 Online: Streaming link will be sent after registration. 🎟 Register here 📱 QA Community Linkedin