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☕️ Java developers, we’re teaming up with Bangalore JUG for a meetup you won’t want to miss! 📅 On August 25, join us online for two expert talks exploring the technologies shaping the future of Java. 🎙 Dmitrii Smirnov (Senior Java Developer, Andersen) will present "Virtual Threads: Rethinking Concurrency in Java." Discover how Java concurrency has evolved, what Project Loom changes under the hood, how Virtual Threads work, and when they’re ready for real-world production use. 🎙 Jayashree S Kumar (Principal Engineer, Oracle) will deliver 🚀"Beyond the Hype: Unpacking the Latest Features of JDK." During her session, Jayashree will help you navigate the latest Java innovations, explore the projects behind them, and explain their impact through practical examples.You’ll discover how modern JDK capabilities can help developers build Java applications that are simpler, faster, and more efficient. 🚀 Register here

Fintech Engineering Handbook What principles and patterns it's recommended to follow when building project that deals with money? https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/

🐹 Go developers, this one's for you! “gRPC in Production: What They Don't Tell You in the Getting Started Guide” Getting started with gRPC seems easy. But once you reach production, you'll encounter challenges that tutorials rarely mention: HTTP/2 connection management, load balancing, binary payloads, different implementations, schema evolution, and plenty of other surprises. 👀 💻 Dmitry Kudryashov, Software Engineer at Andersen, will show how gRPC works in production, walk through the most common pitfalls teams face, and share a practical checklist to help you avoid costly mistakes in real-world projects. Here's what we'll cover: ✨ Why gRPC has become a standard for microservices; ⚡️ What happens “under the hood” during a single RPC call; 🛠 The most common production pitfalls and how to avoid them; 📋 A practical checklist for running gRPC services successfully. 🎟 Register here

The security risks of building AI features into your app (by Giorgi Akhalmosulishvili) Shipping a chatbot or an autonomous agent is easy. Securing it is not — and most teams only realize this after something goes wrong in production. Read about most popular threats here

📢 What if personal branding doesn’t start with content? In the age of AI, anyone can create content. 🤖 But a strong professional brand is still something that can’t be generated with a single prompt. Most professionals follow the same familiar path: 📦 Choose a niche → 🎯 Define your positioning → 📱 Publish content consistently → ✨ Look like an expert But what if that's not where you should start? Join us on July 29 in Warsaw or online to explore how to build a professional brand from the inside out — through your strengths, values, and professional identity. ➡️ Registration: link What we'll discuss: 💡 Why most personal branding advice no longer works 🤖 How to use AI not only for content creation, but also for self-discovery 🧠 What strengths your profile reveals about your professional role and communication style 🚀 How to turn your character, values, and experien

🚀 Register here Agenda: 🧩 When BPMN is the right choice — and when it isn't; ⚔️ Code-first vs. model-first approaches; 📈 Scalability and operational considerations; 🔒 Vendor lock-in and total cost of ownership; ☁️ Cloud-native readiness; 🛠 Developer experience and governance. 🎙 Speaker: Ivan Ishchenko — Solutions Architect at Andersen with 11+ years of experience designing enterprise systems, cloud-native solutions, and workflow automation platforms for healthcare, fintech, and SaaS companies. 🧠 If you've ever had to choose between "getting it done quickly" and "not regretting it two years later," this session is for you. Meetup details: ⏰ Time: 17:00 (СEST) 🕒 Duration: 1 hour 🗣 Language: English 💻 Online: The link to the stream will be sent to your email specified in the registration form See you! 🎯 Join the Community

🏗 🏛 Architects, Tech Leads, CTOs — this one's for you! 📅 On July 14, we're meeting online to discuss a challenge that almost every growing engineering team eventually faces. ⚖️ BPMN or code-first? 🔄 Camunda or Temporal? 🕸 Orchestration or choreography? 💭 Most importantly, how do you choose an approach that helps your business scale instead of creating new problems a year or two down the road? During this meetup, we'll explore modern workflow automation and orchestration platforms, compare their strengths and weaknesses, and discuss which solutions actually work in real-world enterprise environments.

The security risks of building AI features into your app (by by Giorgi Akhalmosulishvili) "Adding AI to an application can feel deceptively simple. A chatbot, document summarizer, or autonomous agent may work well in testing, delight users, and seem ready to ship. The problem is that many teams only start thinking seriously about security after something unexpected happens in production [...]" Read more

What happens when you unleash an AI across all of Google's infrastructure? 1,500 APIs, 3,600 keys, and $500,000 in bounties later, here's what I found. https://brutecat.com/articles/hacking-google-with-ai/

Life of 300K software engineer from Meta in San Francisco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VwEOyAcvJM

Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/

🎟 Register here You’ll get real-world cases, practical approaches, and templates you can start using in your work right after the meetup. Event details: ⏰ Time: 19:00 (Minsk time, GMT+3)/18:00 (CEST) 🕒 Duration: 1 hour 🗣 Language: Russian 📍 Offline: Andersen’s office in Minsk 💻 Online: The link to the stream will be sent to your email specified in the registration form This meetup will definitely come in handy 👀 Become a speaker https://people.andersenlab.com/meetups-with-andersen-recaps#become-a-speaker

📊 “Build a nice dashboard and make sure it shows everything.” A phrase that usually makes analysts sigh heavily 😅 On June 9, we’ll talk about how to turn chaotic business requests into clear and actually useful dashboards. At the meetup, we’ll discuss: — Why many dashboards end up unused; — How to formalize requirements for metrics and data sources — How to improve communication between business teams, analysts, and data engineers. If you’ve ever dealt with endless revisions, last-minute “can we add one more chart?” requests, or discussions like “what exactly should this metric calculate?” – this meetup will definitely be useful for you 👀 🎙 Speaker – Darya Drobova, Principal BI Developer at EffectiveSoft with over 12 years of experience in BI and expertise in Power BI, Tableau, and IBM Cognos Analytics.

How to cut AI cost usage by prompt caching? Check out: https://projectdiscovery.io/blog/how-we-cut-llm-cost-with-prompt-caching