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🚒 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 😉

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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

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