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Enabling you to create better technology with Visma TechZone Technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives, and that is not likely to change any time soon. New technologies and new trends will continue to drive us forward providing us with new opportunities and challenges. That is what we will explore with TechTalks and Visma TechZone.
Experts, both within and outside Visma, will give you a deep dive into their respective fields. Topics will include, among others, data analysis, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence and much more.
In this TechTalk, Monica Iovan will take you through the challenges teams have when handling security activities, and how we can help them accomplish these tasks by automating and by using gamification
A way of improving the security posture of your product implies taking a closer look on how you provision and maintain your infrastructure. In this TechTalk you will find out what can be done in order to make sure that the resources you provision in your environments are not vulnerable to security threats.
In this TechTalk, Ioana invites you to dig into the ethical hackers world, learn more from our experience in Visma and find out how these unicorns can help you secure your assets.
In this TechTalk, Kejsi and Rebecca will challenge the glorification of AI and provide you with meaningful advice on how to successfully implement AI in your business and products.
In this TechTalk, Oliver will talk about the future of Customers' learning curve in software solutions with technology from artificial bots and In-app help.
People don’t buy what they need. They buy what they want.
When driven by fear of missing out, people buy tech not always fitting their actual needs. In this TechTalk, you will learn how doing the next right thing involves data.
In this TechTalk, Magnus A. Lien will take you through the limitations of the traditional data science process, and how we can bypass them by applying automated machine learning pipelines
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In this talk, Alex explains how you can measure and improve engineering performance to improve commercial outcomes.
You will learn about:
- The relationship between engineering performance and commercial performance
- Why and how Visma measures Software Delivery and Operational Performance
- Early research results
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You'll learn about AWS ECS and the various ways in which you can use it.
You will learn about:
- What is AWS ECS?
- AWS ECS Usage scenarios
- Infrastructure architecture of ECS
- AWS ECS AutoScaling
- AWS ECS monitoring
- AWS ECS service deployment
What will you find in this Talk:
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How WEB Bluetooth API works
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What are its possible applications
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What are its limitations
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Two live demos of the technology in action
In this talk, I am attempting to step out of the conventional WEB and experiment with innovative early-stage technologies that might shape our future.
This is an introductory talk on WEB Bluetooth API, coupled with live-coded demonstrations using brain-sensing hardware.
Moving from one database to another is easy - just create tables, move the data and connect.
It's easy, right? Well, it's not...
Let us show you what it actually takes to migrate a large legacy system that was optimized to work on Oracle for over 20 years.
In this talk, we will be sharing our experiences and learning opportunities with you. We will give a high level overview of the why, what’s and how, and give some examples of things that worked good and not so good
Was it easy? - No...
Was it doable? - Absolutely!
You will learn about:
- Reasons to switch database
- Example of Proceedo migration project and results
- Lessons learned and how such projects could be done better
What will you find in this Talk:
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Application scaling can be challenging
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What options are there for scaling a database?
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A closer look at using read replicas
Application scaling can be challenging, database throughput often emerging as a bottleneck. This talk briefly introduces a few different solutions for this problem and their trade-offs. The option of using read replicas is then explored in more detail and shown how it was applied to the Tripletex system.
About the speaker: Zsolt is currently working on Tripletex as Tech Lead, responsible for practices, architecture, frameworks.
He is rarely satisfied with a solution and aims to find the balance between a pragmatic approach and exploring new, interesting ways and solutions.
This talk is about the process from changing the development release cycle from Sprints to CI/CD. You will learn about the things that are important to be aware of when you are currently working in sprints, but are interested or even already planning to make the transition. We've had our fair share of problems from unknowns along the way, that we want to share so you can already start off better prepared.
In this talk we will look at why we should be using synthetic test data. We will also be explaining how we can create synthetic test data for an example system and talk about how machine learning is an important part of this process.
- Why is test data important?
- Why should you use synthetic test data?
- The process of creating synthetic test data
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The aim of the talk is to reflect on what type of environment facilitates innovation and explore one fundamental enabler (no spoiler alerts).
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The aim of the talk is to reflect on what type of environment facilitates innovation and explore one fundamental enabler (no spoiler alerts).
Once we uncover this enabler, you will learn what you and the organization can do to boost it, and what the Olympics have to do with this.
Feel free to share this video with your leaders, if you struggle with operational burden and deadline-driven development.
Highlights:
- Well-known innovation enablers and then will focus on a key factor
- What you and your organization can do to improve your chances of succeeding with innovation
We, developers, have tools and techniques that ensure we follow the best security guidelines when writing code. But what if the code we write and the logic we build is not what will be executed?
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In this presentation we will look at the application security beyond coding. I will present the SolarWinds supply chain attack and how hackers were able to control the application delivery pipeline and inject malware.
We will be looking at the source code injected and analyze the safety measures they took to prevent being discovered by the product delivery team.
We'll conclude by reflecting on the attack vectors and lessons learned.
Check out the website about the talk, and check out more talks.
This tech talk aims to show an understandable, straightforward use case of AI and optimization applied to a problem that most of us are familiar with.
Have you ever invited friends and family to a wedding or other big dinner party? Then you have probably faced the problem of seating these guests in an optimal way so that all of your guests end up having a good time.
First, we'll show how such a problem can be modeled mathematically and solved using AI and optimization.
Next, we create a scalable cloud service that takes a problem definition as input and outputs a solution.
Finally, we reflect upon the potential of this type of service, how we utilize this in Visma today, and how you can proceed to get started yourself!
During the last decades, we learned how to build products the right way: how to organize teams, be efficient and productive.
Yet now the question often is: are we building the right products?
In this talk, we will talk about user-centered product development in Visma and how we use Visma Value Loop to make sure we stay in touch with users throughout all stages of product development and build the right things.
- Informed decision making in Product Development
- Visma Value Loop - a framework for validating ideas with users
- Principles of user-centered Product Development
In this TechZone talk we will look into how teams in Visma are testing software and assuring quality, and how our test and quality assurance strategies are design to support our way of working, which is based on continuous delivery and devops
In this TechTalk:
- How do we test software and assure quality in Visma today?
- How our test and quality assurance strategy supports continuous delivery and devops
- How will we test software and assure quality in the future?
In this TechTalk: Hyperautomation has been spotted as one of the top 10 technology trends by Gartner 2020 and 2021. In this talk, you will learn what Hyperautomation is and what is all the hype about.
With examples of how we in Visma have utilized hyper-automation we hope to inspire you to look for even more opportunities. To help you start, Louise will guide you through the critical strategic decisions to be made in order to scale automation in your organization.
You will learn about:
- What is Hyperautomation: Definition and example
- Why is it so hyped right now?
- Creating a Hyperautomation strategy to begin the journey
- Unboxing automation and AI
Visma Connect has built one of the largest messaging systems in the world.
These are the tales of everything we have learned and experienced using MongoDB to implement this humongous messaging system.
You will learn about:
- MongoDB
- PSS Architecture
- Sharded Cluster
- Continuous Backup
Joakim Turen will describe how vulnerabilities actually exist in applications and how you as a developer can hack yourself to find them.
Consider this as the beginning of your journey into hacking your own applications - you have the skills and the knowledge needed.
Joakim will explain some basic fundamentals and show you some tools that you can learn further to become epic at it.
Too often misunderstood, overlooked or abused, DevOps is an effective way of developing, delivering and operating modern cloud software. In Visma, our cross-functional and autonomous teams take full and exclusive ownership for their own code and infrastructure.
You will learn how Visma uses DevOps to: Develop, deliver and operate software DevOps principles Effective use of DevOps
T. Alexander Lystad, Director of Cloud and Engineering
In this Visma TechTalk you will learn will learn about modern natural language processing, otherwise known as NLP and what a transformer is in deep learning models.
You will also learn about GPT3 and how Visma is using transformers, and how Visma is using NLP and machine learning.
Claus Dahl is the Team Manager for the Machine Learning Assets team for Visma. He is a mathematician with 23 years of software experience building SaaS products and doing math with computers.
In this Visma TechTalk you will learn why security is critical and what makes it so attractive for criminals to target companies and the steps you, and your company, should take to protect yourself against crime.
Espen will also show you how Visma fights crime and how crime is international as it no longer knows any boundries and why it is important to think about security at scale.
Visma takes security very seriously and you will learn how crime affects internal security and also how we protect our clients and their businesses.
In this TechTalk you will learn more about why owning your data pipeline is beneficial for organizations and how to deliver behavioural data with Snowplow.
You will also learn how to enable all kinds of A/B testing and experiments, create new measurable goals, public cloud technologies, and real-time streaming and uniform data models to enable cross-product analysis.