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2025 05 07 AWS Gen AI meetup

Visited Gen AI meetup organized by AWS. Strangely, the meetup had a "Chatham House Rule" so I'm not sure if I can reveal who talked about what.

AGI: Beyond the Hype, Before the Storm

Visited another AI meetup on promoting Estonia as AI nation. After opening words from Vattan PS and Allan Martinson: First talk from Linnar Viik about usage of OpenAI / Anthropic in education.

2025 04 28 Decentralized AI event

Just attended **Decentralized AI** event at TalTech organized by Astra Tikas and it was an inspiring evening that made me think and take some notes. First, I think main motivation and problem defined was ownership.

2024 12 13 Tallinn AI meetup

Another day, another AI meetup 😀 Apparently now there is a dedicated TallinnAI meetup (https://lnkd.in/dPG-AzpP), hopefully it can become a recurring one First talk by Andrei Sbitnev was about https://figurix.com/ and 3d model generation using AI. Specifically, given a photo, generate a cartoon-like 3d avatar with anim...

2024 11 26 AI meetup notes

Visited local AI meetup organized by Vattan, Astra & co, Hosted by Helmes https://lu.ma/0045px5e I liked quote by Astra Tikas (targeted towards individual presenters). I think it summarizes AI ecosystem well :D "You are not special" "No, you are special, all of you are special" Elisa ESGrid Impactly Up Catalyst TalTech...

Product team models - project based, feature factory and product operating model

Listened to the podcast https://www.tpg.ee/p/product-team-models-project-based Was interesting to listen and reflect how organizations tend to have indeed different structures. I suppose the project-based is a tendency in small and outsourcing companies, while more mature product-orinented companies go with feature-fac...

Asuur Keraamika

Are you planning a team building event and bored of bowling and billiard? Try pottery.

Katana meetup

Katana Cloud Inventory & ProductTank (Anna Albert + Olesia Kucheryk) hosting AI meetup ( https://lnkd.in/dhUbzDE6 ) Got to listen about opengenie.ai, Align, Databricks usage to analyze company data by auto generating SQL, summarization of support, customer research, lead/demo calls. Thx to Andres Aava.

Pipedrive meetup

Listening to Elizaveta Lebedeva talk on fraud detection reminded me of similar talk at Wise couple of years ago. Maybe such anomalies and trends could be shared?

Digit Tartu conference 2024

At Digit Conference Jaroslav Judin expanded on prior credit-card anti-fraud talk that Elizaveta Lebedeva did. This time focus was on redis.

Tallinn JS meetup

Attended TallinnJS meetup organized by Stefano Amorelli at LIFT99. Won ticket to Digit Conference.

Sandboxes for homework assignments

I did some throw-away home coding assignments back in the days: https://github.com/tot-ra/sandbox-open-time-json https://github.com/tot-ra/sandbox-express-axios-api-composition https://github.com/tot-ra/sandbox-airport https://github.com/tot-ra/sandbox-chocolate-factory https://github.com/tot-ra/sandbox-nestjs-auth-rat...

Dream of scalable & enriched graphql-subscriptions

Originally posted in Medium Stylized photo of Jagala juga (Estonia), original photo by Aleksandr Abrosimov, Wikimedia Commons Last time, I wrote about 5-year long journey of having GraphQL in Pipedrive. Now, let me tell you about a 10-year long journey of delivering websocket events to frontend..

Journey to a Federated GraphQL

Original post at medium Image taken from dgraph.io Engineers tend to love good stories, so hopefully our 5-year journey of moving towards API composition with GraphQL now in production (serving at peak 110 requests per second at 100ms latency) provides a good story. If you’re in a hurry, scroll down to _Lessons learned...