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This summer in Latvia has been cold, wet, and windy - only a handful of true beach days. After chatting with my wife and daughter, we booked a week in Turkey for August. Our first trip to Antalya was three years ago and left us with great memories. This time we chose Side, a little farther east of Belek, our previous base. Side delivered the heat we were craving 😅 Most days hovered around 37 °C, with a couple peaking at 42 °C. Daytime city walks were nearly impossible for me; we spent the first day by the pool with a short stroll around near the hotel. ...

From June 12-14, 2025, the Baltic Ruby conference took place in Riga, Latvia (EU), bringing together Rubyists from across the region. The speaker lineup looked fantastic, and I was excited to attend. Unfortunately, my master’s thesis defense fell on June 13, so I could only join for a few hours on the final day. Even with limited time, my impression was overwhelmingly positive - the event was well-organized, and I felt a bit unlucky to have missed the first two days. ...

As software engineers, we often pride ourselves on writing clean code, optimizing queries, or mastering the latest frameworks. But after six years in engineering and over a decade in business development and strategic planning, I’ve learned something that’s equally valuable: understanding the business behind the product can be a developer’s unfair advantage. Before transitioning into tech, I spent years leading business development at Helio Media — negotiating media deals with global partners like Fox, Viacom, and Discovery, and launching scalable digital products. That experience gave me a deep appreciation for how revenue models, customer behavior, and market timing shape every product decision. ...

Mistakes and errors are inevitable in enterprise systems. Developers introduce bugs, product teams make imperfect decisions, and users sometimes perform unexpected actions that cause data inconsistencies. Once such errors leave development and reach staging or production, the cost of mitigation grows — requiring coordination between multiple teams and risking business disruption. For my Master’s thesis in Business Informatics at Riga Technical University, I explored innovative methods to address functionality gaps, data integrity violations, and system interoperability issues resulting from these types of errors. ...