European Software Crafters

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About us

Welcome to the world's largest🥇 developer community on crafting software. Events are free to attend, online, in English, and after work (from 18:00 EET / 17:00 CET). You can find past events recorded on this YouTube Channel.

This community is for those who care and are proud of our work. For those developers, regardless of how experienced they are, who want to improve and master their craft. This is a place for those who believe that being average is not good enough.

We are Software Developers aiming to get better at our profession, no matter the programming language.

The Manifesto of Software Craftsmanship
As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft. Through this work we have come to value:
• Not only working software, but also well-crafted software
• Not only responding to change, but also steadily adding value
• Not only individuals and interactions, but also a community of professionals
• Not only customer collaboration, but also productive partnerships
That is, in pursuit of the items on the left we have found the items on the right to be indispensable.

Privacy: your email will not be disclosed to any 3rd parties.

Low-Spam: You'll get max 1 email/month besides event announcements.

This meetup is supported by JetBrains's Community Program, raffling 3 free JB licenses every month.

We are looking for speakers that want to help our community. Please submit your presentation idea to victorrentea@gmail.com.

This community was started in Oct 2018 by Victor, Ana, Bianca, Razvan and several other friends at IBM Romania.

Upcoming events

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Gray Factory: Code Review for Agentic Engineers
Wed, Sep 16 · 6:00 PM EEST
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Code Review quickly becomes the next productivity bottleneck once a team starts using a strong agentic harness, given sufficient tokens. While management dreams of abruptly turning off the lights (the Software Dark Factory), responsible engineers working on complex [legacy] codebases need to "dim the lights" progressively to take responsibility for their system in production confidently.

In this online presentation, Victor will share a series of innovative (higher-level) ways to look at code, aiming to maximize the mental bandwidth we need to quickly understand and confidently approve that 1000+ lines PR that AI submitted to us after 1 hour of work. Many of these techniques use diagrams, visuals, and videos script-produced from the code to help us get a hold of the diff submitted by the coding agent.

Among the ideas:
- Demo: TikTok Video of the new feature
- API visual diff: Swagger, async-api
- Logical Architecture diff: packages & module coupling
- Data Model diff: concepts, classes, tables
- Cyclomatic complexity per entry point
- Logging vs Privacy
- Code City 3D: code complexity/coupling visualization + diff
- Acceptance Tests (PO-readable), Semantic Mapped on Requirements
- Sequence Diagrams of Critical Business Flows
- Deployment Architecture: cross-checking via E2E test traces

Come and see the toolset that a Software Craftsman and Architect vibe-coded using >$30K-worth of tokens, following hundreds of hours of training & discussion with bright engineers in 30+ agentified companies. You can get or fork all the tools you'll see under The Unlicense, and vibe-code them further to tailor them to your needs.

Speaker:
With 2 decades of software engineering experience, Victor spent the last 10 years training thousands of developers and architects from 150+ companies. Since early this year, he’s been working hard to help his clients adopt Agentic Engineering (see https://agentic.how), coaching AI Champions, developers, testers, ops people, product owners and managers with practical, actionable advice to kick-start their agentic reconversion. Every year, Victor gives energetic, intense conference talks in which he distills his training sessions. More about him on https://victorrentea.ro.

After registration, you will receive the Zoom link of the meeting where discussions will take place.

Alternatively, you can join the YouTube live-stream, where it will also remain recorded: TBA
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