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What we’re about

Sponsored by Criteo, a leading global player in personalized digital performance advertising, we heavily rely on the boundless creativity of our exceptional R&D teams to pioneer some of the most groundbreaking and disruptive technologies. We engage in demanding activities closely tied to our intrinsic business values, prioritizing reliability and scalability in everything we do.

Our meetups are dedicated to exploring cutting-edge technologies within Criteo's R&D domain, involving our Engineers, Data Scientists, and Researchers. Our aim is to share our experiences, our difficulties and our successes on different tech subjects. We also extend a warm invitation to anyone willing to share their tech experiences with our community. If you're interested in speaking at our upcoming meetups, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

The topics covered during our gatherings encompass:

Artificial Intelligence (AI): This includes machine learning techniques, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), generative language models, and real-world applications of generative AI in our projects.
DevOps: We delve into topics such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), DevOps tools, and practices that enhance collaboration.
Frontend Topics: We keep an eye on emerging frontend technologies, user-friendly UI design, and provide feedback on ongoing frontend projects.
Hardware: We discuss advancements in hardware components, hardware selection for ongoing projects, and efficient hardware resource management.
Data Centers: Our conversations revolve around data center management, ensuring data and infrastructure security, and strategies for scalability and availability.
Women in Technology: We actively support initiatives aimed at promoting diversity and equal opportunities in the tech industry.
Architecture: We explore architectural design principles for systems, delve into distributed systems and microservices, and share insights on performance optimization and handling high loads.

Join us every two months for engaging discussions on a fresh tech topic!

Event Agenda:

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Welcome and Registration
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm: Introduction to the Event
7:15 pm - 7:45 pm: Tech Talk 1 with Q&A (Presented by a Criteo Speaker)
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm: Tech Talk 2 with Q&A (Guest Speaker Presentation)
8:15 pm - 10/11:00 pm: Networking and Refreshments

You can learn more about us by visiting our page: Criteo Engineering on Medium.

Remember, our meetups are entirely FREE to attend. We look forward to welcoming you to our community of tech enthusiasts!

Upcoming events (1)

Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 6:30 PM CETRefactoring for Testability & Testcontainers
Criteo, Barcelona
🎉 Join us for a new Tech Meetup in our BCN office! 🎉
We're thrilled to invite you to an exciting joint meetup hosted at our offices to discuss refactoring and testing! Talks will be in English.

🚀 Featured Talks
🟠 "Refactoring for Testability"
This presentation delves into the practical process of improving software scalability and reliability through thoughtful refactoring.

We’ll start by examining real examples of problematic code, highlighting the challenges that hindered testability and growth.
From there, we’ll demonstrate specific refactoring techniques that made the code more modular, maintainable, and scalable.

Thanks to Ale's talk, you'll see how these changes not only simplified testing but also reduced technical debt, ultimately leading to a smoother development process in everyday use.

🟢 "Dare to test your Prod on CI. Hold my drink , and check Testcontainers"
We all know about the importance of testing, doing our unit tests, continuing with our integration tests, and so on. But, in each case, we are always testing isolated features and use mocks for those things that are not important in those tests.

So, what about testing everything with real layers and all together? And, even better, having that big test encapsulated in our project test suits and runnable locally and from our CI? Here is where Testcontainers appear.

In this talk, Jon will explain his experience introducing Testcontainers in our project, which includes eight external components, and how we test the whole application, including network and product versions, and taking into account particular configurations on each layer involved.

🗓️ Agenda
- 18:30 - Opening remarks and introduction of speakers by Kini, DevRel at Criteo.
- 18:45 - Refactoring for Testability by Alessandro Mainas, Software Engineer at Criteo.
- 19:30 - Dare to test your Prod on CI. Hold my drink , and check Testcontainers by Jon Vila, Developer Advocate at Sonar.
- 20:15 - Networking and cocktails

If you register for this event, you consent to CRITEO's use of your image, video, voice or all three. In addition, you waive any right to inspect or approve the finished video recording. You agree that any such image, video or audio recording and any reproduction thereof shall remain the property of the author and may be used by Criteo as it sees fit. You understand that this consent is perpetual, cannot be revoked by me and is binding. You understand that these images may appear publicly on Criteo's website, social media accounts and/or other marketing materials.
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Past events (2)

Wed, Mar 13, 2024, 6:30 PM CETAuthZ at Criteo & Web Testing Strategies at Wallapop
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