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Ivak Cagil

I’m a Lead Software Engineer in Vistaprint Prague.

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Introduction to F#

On October 22nd, Vistaprint Prague sponsored an F# Meetup at Impact Hub Prague. In this meetup, Mikhail Smal went through the F# language,
its syntax, its role in .NET and its most powerful features.

The recording of the event is on our YouTube channel.

#lifeinvistaprintprague #vistaprintprague #praguesoftwarecraftsmanship #fsharp #functionalprogramming

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When you’re racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after, it’s just waiting (Steve McQueen in Le Mans)

Today we have our Christmas party and the fun started with go kart races at Praga Arena. After the races we’ll move to another venue for after party. 🍾

#lifeinvistaprintprague #lifeinvistaprint #vistaprintprague #gokart

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Jiri Adamek, one of our engineers, was the speaker of the #bigdata meet up organized by Prague Software Craftsmanship.

He gave an overview of the existing technologies on the market and demonstrated how using a few different data sets could help the police catch a hotel room #thief.

The event had the right mix of people interested in the topic. One #datascientist working in finance; one great #python guy, in town for the #pycon conference, and a #techblogger

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Vistaprint is Agile from top to bottom and the high level management uses and enterprise-wide Agile planning tool we call "Enterprise Visibility". In Prague office we have a board which provides visibility to the high level goals in the area engineers are working on.

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Aws training in the office
Nick Brandeone from Amazon was in our Prague office for 2 days. He gave trainings on various #aws technologies and made a hands on session on #fargate.

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Our CEO Trynka Shineman visited us on the first birthday of Vistaprint Prague Technology Center. She made a presentation on the history and the bright future of the company.

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It was a great year! We have formed an incredible team and delivered some really exciting projects!

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Machine learning is a hot topic at Vistaprint Prague Development Center.

We utilize it in many systems, including site recommendations.

In Prague we have a #machinelearning group and our engineers meet regularly to train themselves and hold discussions.

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It's Architectural Kata time!

Vistaprint is a proud sponsor of the architectural kata events organized by Prague Software Craftsmanship community.

This time a real life problem will be presented by a real architect; PSC is partnering with Petr Ferschmann from Dativery to organize the event.

About Architecture Katas

Architectural Katas are intended as a small-group (3-5 people) exercise, usually as part of a larger group (4-10 groups are ideal), each of whom is doing the same kata. A Moderator keeps track of time and acts as the facilitator for the exercise.

Each group is given a project that needs development. The project team meets for a while, discovers requirements that aren't in the original proposal by asking questions of the "customer" (the Moderator), discusses technology options that could work, and sketches out a rough vision of what the solution could look like. Then, after they've discussed for a while, the project team must present their solution to the other project teams in the room, and answer challenges (in the form of hard-but-fair questions) from the other project teams. Once that challenging phase is done, the room votes on their results and the next project team take the floor.

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Boston, New York, Prague

The Pulsar Squad in Prague recently started working on personalized recommendations that are displayed on Vistaprint web site. Up until now, this domain was owned by squads in our Waltham (Boston) office.

When they started working on the project, they scheduled meetings with the stakeholders and the developers who are familiar with the domain. They wanted to find the best way to have the knowledge transfer and start to build a roadmap.

After a couple of brainstorming sessions, it was clear that a visit to Waltham office would be the best step to take. This way they could meet all stakeholders face-to-face, schedule #mobprogramming sessions with the developers in the US and visit the famous #SamuelAdams brewery in Boston 😊

Read the full story of Pulsar Squad's visit to our Waltham office on our community blog (link in bio)

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Knights, arrows, swords: DevFest 2018

Vistaprint Prague was one of the sponsors of #DevFest2018 Prague. This year's theme was medieval ages and the participants had to finish 8 medieval quests by different IT companies to win the big prize.

Vistaprint had one of the most popular quests with an archery range. We had a chance to meet a lot of like-minded people and listen to talks from great speakers.

#devfest #lifeinvistaprintprague #vistaprintprague #archery

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Functional programming meetup is on our YouTube channel!

On September 24th, Mikhail Smal gave a presentation about functional programming. You can find recording of this and past events on our YouTube channel (link in bio)

#lifeinvistaprintprague #vistaprintprague #praguesoftwarecraftsmanship #functionalprogramming #meetup

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The Warhol squad is working on Identity Service, a #microservice for authentication and authorization.

In our transition to a microservice based architecture, Identity Service is an important milestone.

Some members of the squad recently visited our Waltham office in US to discuss their architectural decisions and present the #zerodowntime infrastructure they built.

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Solid Squad is a part of our Data Tribe. In their currect project, they use technologies like #spark #databricks and #azure

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Vistaprint Prague is one year old! It's been an amazing year; and we celebrated it by an amazing boat party 🍷

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