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DjangoCon Europe is run by the community for the community: which is what makes it just the kind of event we absolutely love to attend. The 11th edition took place in Copenhagen, from 10 to 14 April, and we sent 4 Mirumeers along to get involved in the discussion and workshops that aim to educate and develop the skills of the growing Django community. It was a fun event that gave us a fresh perspective on the current state of Django… and the ramen was pretty good too!

Women are still under-represented in STEM subject studies and in technical positions in the workplace. Employers who want to achieve gender equality and have more diverse workplaces struggle with a lack of applicants. Grass roots initiatives to get females into technology offer the hope for the future. Software houses can simultaneously be part of the gender diversity problem and part of the solution.

On November 7–8, three of our team made the long trip to San Francisco for the GraphQL Summit. Was it worth the jetlag? You bet. We got to hear talks from AWS, Apollo, GitHub, Netflix, and Braintree, among many others.

Let’s face it, the UI and UX may sometimes still be a bit clunky in Open Source, but we can no longer deny the fact that the entire market is moving toward an open model. 97% of companies now run at least some Open Source software and more and more of the planet’s biggest companies are adopting OSS. Here are our top three reasons why Open Source is a great option for developing products; why it is a sound model for business; and why the Open Source culture makes a measurable difference.

Getting started with data-driven product and user matching. If you want the simplest possible example, click ‘Your Discover Weekly’ on Spotify and you will be given a list of songs that you have never played on the platform but which the recommendation system believes you will like based on your listening history.

A new year means new opportunities and we are are fully focused on how we can roll with the big underlying e-commerce trends, as well as looking at emerging technologies which can enhance our business. Here is our take on what will shape e-commerce in 2019.

The key to great technical solutions is always a solid brief of the required solution and continued, high-quality communication as the work develops. We want to share a story with you; it’s about why we think our cooperation with Lulu is a great template if you are working in remote teams, sometimes scattered across continents and working under time pressure in agile methodology.

Nearly 2,000 attendees (most of them female) dropped into Amsterdam for the 2018 edition of the European Women in Tech conference, which describes itself as ‘a celebration of diversity in the world’s fast growing industry’. Read what we learned during it.

We’re going to talk about explicit and implicit data in Recommendation Systems, especially looking at the problems that negative or unclear responses can cause. It helps to know something about the subject upfront.