Hostelworld Sunset Party

Hello Porto!!!

On the back of last year’s Hostelworld Summer Party, we’re looking to celebrate our second amazing summer in this beautiful city. This time it's going to be BIGGER, BETTER and even more exciting!

In September, we’re planning on having some tech great talks, great music, some surprises, amazing food and of course, lots of drinks (we’re an Irish company after all 😉). So why not come down to Rooftop Sta. Catarina, meet our family and our World!

You'll have also the opportunity to watch two tech talks given by two of our team members!

19h30 - Recommendation Systems 101
by Isabel Portugal, Data Scientist

Have you ever wonder how e-commerce companies decide what they should be offering you on their homepage or newsletters?
If you are heading a customer-centric company's user experience and product strategy or sitting in your couch watching films with loved ones, you are probably already aware of some ways that recommendation technology can be used to customise your content and offers.
Join us on exploring what recommendation systems are and what are the main applications that e-commerce businesses, like Hostelworld.com, are using it for.

20h30 - AWS Lambda - A Serverless Architecture
by Guilherme Sousa, Fullstack Engineer

Imagine not have to worry with fault-tolerance, resizing or adding new servers, updating servers OS and security patches. Imagine automatic scaling with no lengthy deployments or configuration delays. Yes, that's serverless architecture! Join us to dig a little bit in serverless, focused on AWS world. Find out with us a little bit of Lambda, it's advantages and it's impact on modern software.

Looking forward to see you there!