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Let's experience it once again!🥨

in Poznań is behind us and we proudly supported this event once again as . 🧡 You can take our word for it (although you can also check out the photos 😉) - it was a combination of the best lectures and the atmosphere that Octoberfest is famous for! 🤩

Thanks to JUG Poznań for organizing a great event and all of you for your presence! You filled the Multikino in Poznań to the brim. 🙂

JDD is a two-day conference for all Java enthusiasts and passionate individuals keen to broaden and share their knowledge. It was no surprise to see well-represented! 🔥

The best talk among the JUG representatives was given to Kacper Koza, a Senior Software Engineer at . The participants appreciated his presentation, which focused on a memory issue in relation to the operation of the Garbage Collector, and showcased tools for solving such problems through Allegro's case study.

Congrats! 👏🏻

Hello Poznań! 👋

Are you ready for , where we will meet on November 18? As we're a Gold Partner of this event and a patron of the track. 🧡

DevFest Poznań is a community-run one-day conference aimed to bring technologists, developers, students, tech companies, and speakers together in one location to learn, discuss and experiment with technology.

Check out the details on: https://devfest.gdgpoznan.pl/ and look out for more updates on our profile. 🫶

➡️Tickets are available on: https://app.evenea.pl/event/devfestpoznan2024/

Let's celebrate Global Day of Coderetreat with JUG Poznań & 🥳

➡️ Take advantage of a unique opportunity to learn from other developers and expand your programming skills.

➡️ Explore with us new methods, such as Test-Driven Development or pair programming, which you will be able to apply in your daily work.

➡️ Practice programming techniques in a relaxing environment, away from the daily pressures and demands of business.

We will be waiting for you together on November 16 (Saturday) in our office in Poznań. The meeting will be prepared for you by experienced people: Wojciech Zieliński (Manager, Engineering), Tomasz Grabarczyk (Senior Software Engineer) and Krystian Adamski (Software Engineer). 👨‍💻

Would you like to know the details? Join us on: https://www.meetup.com/poznan-java-user-group/events/304074751/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

is the largest conference dedicated to IT Operations in Poland, 70% of whose program are case studies of the largest IT companies. 🤯 Of course, this is one of several reasons why you could once again meet people in Gdynia. 💪

Are you curious what we did there? Check it out below:

➡️ Rafał Gajewski (Manager in the Operations Automation area) led the workshop sessions on AI and automation.

➡️ Robert Radziejewski (Senior Manager, IT Governance) presented the topic of failure management at Allegro and was a part of a panel discussion on the pros, cons and pitfalls of migrating infrastructure to the cloud.

➡️ Jakub Sznajder (Senior Change Management Specialist in the IT Service Management area) made his debut as a speaker with a presentation on a lightweight IT change management process at Allegro. We consider the debut to be successful, because our colleague was recognized for the best presentation at this year's conference. Congratulations! 🤩

Knowledge ✅ Networking ✅ Time spent well ➡️ See you next year!

Any plans for this evening? As part of the #3 Tech Leaders Meetup, we're hosting the Tech Leaders community at the Poznan HQ. The topic is succession planning, or ensuring that the next generation of leaders is trained.

🤔 What are the Tech Leaders Meetups?
Tech Leaders Meetups is designed to unite the minds of tech managers across various disciplines. It's a platform where leaders like you can come together, share insights, and build a supportive community.

Starting today at 6.30 p.m. 🔥

More details here ⬇️

Tech Leaders Meetup #3, wt., 22 paź 2024, 18:30 | Meetup Jesteśmy bardzo podekscytowani, mogąc zaprosić Was na trzecie spotkanie z serii Tech Leaders Meetups! Dołączcie do nas na kolejną inspirującą dyskusję panelową. Temat pane

The benefits of working at definitely include nights like this. 🎮✨ For the midnight premiere of EA Sports FC 2025, our offices in Poznań and Warsaw turned into a tournament field.

You could pick up your copy of the game from Allegro One Box parcel machines one minute after midnight on the day of the premiere. We could feel the spirit of competition and share our passion for gaming. 👏🧡

Players? people. Company? Fans watching the games live and enjoying the attractions related to the premiere. Check out our photo gallery and experience our excitement all over again. 📸

If you don't have plans for Friday afternoon yet, come to our office in Warsaw! 🏃🏃‍♀️The DC4822 community (powered by people) has prepared an event for you that we've never had before! 🤯

👉 After the presentation on Social Engineering and Human Hacking Techniques we will invite you to... Hacker Court, where cybercrime meets courtroom drama!

Don't wait! Grab the last available spots and join us on October 11th at 6:30 PM 👉 https://www.meetup.com/dc4822/events/303599244/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

Did you know that in October this year, DRY principle will celebrate its 25th anniversary? It was proposed by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas in The Pragmatic Programmer book in 1999. 🥳

25th birthday is quite a good reason to celebrate, isn’t it? At least, it’s a good opportunity to bring this principle back into the spotlight and to discuss how to use it properly. 🥸

Read Marek Szkudelski's (Front-End Software Engineer) article on and see how you can protect yourself from many bad choices in coding 👉 https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/10/do-repeat-yourself.html

10 people, 10 different career paths and 1 campaign that presents development opportunities at Allegro and inspires change just like... art! 🎨

Jarosław Glegoła combined his studies with development in the e-Xperience program at some time ago. 😉 Today he is a Senior Front-End Software Engineer and continues to grow with us. 🧡

Discover more stories of Allegro’s extraordinary team members, explore their unique journeys, and… get inspired! ➡️ https://jobs.allegro.eu/development-opportunities/

What's next? Choose one of the the area in our company and start painting your story. We're waiting for your talent in Merchant Experience, Consumer Experience, Technical Platform & Services, Delivery Experience, Allegro Pay and Data & AI teams.

This year's JUGtoberfest is just around the corner! Join us on October 16 in Poznań for an unforgettable celebration of all things . 🥨👩‍💻👨‍💻

We have an event full of knowledge, networking and great fun ahead of us. The JUG Poznań team has prepared a rich program that will satisfy both beginner programmers and experienced specialists (see for yourself). 🧡

🗓 Mark your calendars, spread the word, and stay tuned for more updates. We can't wait to see you in Poznań again ⬇https://www.meetup.com/poznan-java-user-group/events/302077992/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

Guess who (apart from people) showed up at Hack Yeah this year? That's right, Mr. Beaver, the mascot of Allegro's Tech area! 🦫🧡

is one of the largest hackathons in Europe, where brilliant minds gather to solve complex problems, create innovative solutions, and have loads of fun in the process.

Word on the street is that Mr. Beaver tried his paw at coding and loved the hackathon so much that he’s thinking of hosting his own event next! 🛠😉

Are you ready for with our hero? 👍

If sharing knowledge on a large scale and integration in the best company, then . 🧡

The 17th edition of Allegro Tech Meeting is behind us. It's been two days of conference, 58 presentations, 71 speakers, an internal Best in TECH competition and after-parties in Warsaw, Poznań, Cracow and Prague, which we can only sum up in one way: 🤟

Take a look behind the scenes of the technology special days at , which we celebrate every year by spending time together, talking about the future and learning from each other. 📸

Today is the first day of the 17th edition of the Allegro Tech Meeting! 🤩 A two-day knowledge-sharing event, featuring 70 speakers and nearly 70 presentations in three tracks. That's how we celebrate the upcoming Developer's Day, and we got a blog post to let you feel the spirit! 💻

Check the article about automating code migrations at Scale on ➡️ https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/09/automating-code-migrations-at-scale.html

If the end of the summer, then a new episode of ! 🎧 This time, Jakub Dowgird, our Product Communication Manager, talked to our guest about technology and its use at Allegro.

Who makes up our Salesforce team and what are the responsibilities of the people who are part of it? What do sample processes based on Salesforce look like in our organization? Is it difficult to start working in Salesforce and specialize in this technology?❓

Kasia Kowalska, Manager in the IT Services area at , talks about the stability of the solutions we create, unusual uses and challenges in working with Salesforce. Listen this episode on: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0lfxlnPfG1ThKlvkJQgHkc?si=8mRpe29TTjKxvHbKWQ46uw 🎙️

In one of our core services, the ex*****on of a single unit test took approximately 30 seconds, while a single integration test ranged between 65 and 70 seconds. Running the entire test suite took circa 6 minutes. 🤯

Kacper Koza, Senior Software Engineer at , in new article on focuses on strategies to shorten test ex*****on time in a and testing environment. He explores practical methods to optimize test performance, such as utilizing Groovy compilation avoidance, enabling incremental compilation, and leveraging hardware upgrades. 👨‍💻

Read and check out how by using these techniques, you can significantly reduce the time it takes to run unit and integration tests, leading to a more efficient development process with quicker feedback loops. ➡️ https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/09/accelerate-test-ex*****on-in-groovy-spock.html

How to get back to programming after a more than 1.5 year gap❓Magdalena Mazur, Front-end Software Engineer at , returned to this activity after 21 months and 2 days which she spent on maternity leave. Let’s check how it was from her subjective perspective on : https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/08/how-to-come-back-to-programming.html

How could the Selenium to Playwright migration be an evolution, not a revolution? 🤔 Learn more about conducting the migration process and its advantages in an article by Patrycja Husarska, Senior Test Automation Engineer at .

Read the article here 👉🏼 https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/08/selenium-playwright-migration.html

During the upcoming weekend, you can attend the Taylor Swift concert in Warsaw but also watch the presentation by Jacek Szczerbiński (Research Engineer at ) and Aleksandra Osowska-Kurczab (Machine Learning Manager at ) about Clever Language Modelling at Allegro. The Data Science Summit Machine Learning Edition conference recording is already on our YouTube channel 🤩

🤔 How can we perform on par with SOTA, but still be cost-effective? You need to be clever. In this talk, Jacek and Aleksandra will show Allegro's approach to machine translation and customer service automation.

Watch the "Understand, translate, respond - Clever language modeling at Allegro" presentation here ⬇️

Understand, translate, respond - Clever language modeling at Allegro The recent success of large language models has been enabled by giant architectures and massive computation. However, deployment of such models to production...

👩‍💻Friday, the perfect day for a new article on before the weekend!👨‍💻

Check out the blog post written by Tomasz Richert (Manager, Engineering at ), which is a case study of how we improved stability in our critical application. It’s mostly a technical analysis of what happens in fresh based instance, how JIT Compiler toyed with us at application start and how we learned to control it.

Enjoy reading on: https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/07/the-noisy-jit-compiler.html

There's still time to buy the bricks to support the Hakersi project of the Sarigato Foundation. With your support, we have already raised 2,300 PLN ❗️ Each of you can support the digital development of children and young people with limited access to computer equipment and the Internet 💻

🟠 Remember, Allegro does not charge fees or commissions on selling charity offers — 100% of the collected funds are transferred directly to the Sarigato Foundation's account. All proceeds from donations will directly support Hakersi, a project that equalizes opportunities in the digital development of children and youth.

You can buy the dedicated bricks by the end of July on the Allegro Charytatywni page 👉 https://allegro.pl/charytatywni/fundacja-sarigato/cele/hakersi-wspieramy-rozwoj-technologiczny-dzieci-wykluczonych-cyfrowo?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1MHiWAmCZjmoCI60vanrabSHvdxRb5wNUUfp47-NJJPmNbxkSJ8p6l-3o_aem_XDo7QCK9t28UGP84SooAew&order=n