Hi.

Do you believe that face-to-face interaction is the best way to learn? We believe it, too.

At DevChampions, we offer the top quality training for software developers.

We specialize, but are not limited to engineering practices, software architecture, automation and soft skills.

The best trainers

DevChampions center is led by industry practioners (we founded Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community and DevTernity Conference). That lets us choose only the best trainers - we know those who deliver excellent training courses in person.

Theory and practice balance

Theory without practice is worthless. Nevertheless, in order to understand the topic you need to build strong theoretical foundation. Our training courses offer great mix of theory, hands-on exercises and teamwork.

Certification

For every successfully accomplished training you earn a certificate. Stay out of the crowd by sharing your achievements with prospective employers, community and peers.

 

Scheduled training courses

eXtreme Automation

20-22 April 2020, online

codingandrey Andrey Adamovich
Extreme Automator
This 3-day ⚡ online workshop focuses on solving challenges that organizations face when implementing DevOps initiatives. It introduces principles of DevOps and tools that help reach full automation of infrastructure provisioning and software delivery. Theoretical background as well as practical hands-on examples of tools like AWS/GCP, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Linkerd, KNative, Serverless and many others are given during this workshop.
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eXtreme Automation

24-25 Sep 2020, Berlin, Germany

codingandrey Andrey Adamovich
Extreme Automator
This 3-day ⚡ online workshop focuses on solving challenges that organizations face when implementing DevOps initiatives. It introduces principles of DevOps and tools that help reach full automation of infrastructure provisioning and software delivery. Theoretical background as well as practical hands-on examples of tools like AWS/GCP, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Linkerd, KNative, Serverless and many others are given during this workshop.
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Effective Java Software Design

Multiple dates, Multiple locations

eduardsi Eduards Sizovs
Head Trainer, Founder @ DevTernity, DevTube
In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to build modern, clean and maintainable enterprise applications using up to date Java techniques, frameworks, and secret gems. The course is designed for experienced Java professionals who want to expand their knowledge beyond trivial and easy-to-google concepts. You will be equipped with effective practical solutions to real-world architecture and design challenges.
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JVM Internals and Performance Tuning

2-day on-premises training

codingandrey Andrey Adamovich
Java Expert
This 2-day training dives deep into the JVM internals and tool set offered by JVM's eco-system. It also describes possible scenarios that may arise during production system support. Understanding of JVM internal architecture may help developers to write code that is more efficient; performance analysis and tuning of JVM parameters may help operations team to quicker find and report problems.
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The Principal Developer

Multiple dates, Multiple locations

eduardsi Eduards Sizovs
Head Trainer, Founder @ DevTernity, DevTube
The Principal Developer is invitation-only, two-day long masterclass for senior developers, team leaders and software architects. We build traits, habits and skills that technical people need to succeed at senior-level positions.
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Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader

4 Dec 2020, Riga, Latvia

 David Neal
Senior Developer Advocate @ Octa, Microsoft MVP, #1 Speaker of 2019
We all have an opportunity every day to make a postive impact on folks around us. These are often called "soft skills," but they can be some of the hardest to learn! We could call them "people skills," "essential skills," or "core skills." But, how about "SKILLS OF AWESOMENESS?" Yes, what we all need is more ways we can be awesome to each other, and awesome together.
More info at DevTernity.com

From Legacy to Solid Code with Blue-Green Refactoring

4 Dec 2020, Riga, Latvia

 Bartłomiej Słota
Trainer, Consultant @ Bottega IT Minds, OSS contributor

Most of us have been working with some kind of legacy systems with lots of technical debt. How do we improve the codebase without The Big Rewrite and avoid creating yet another spaghetti monster? That’s what this workshop is about.

In this workshop, we will work together on a legacy system. We will approach the problem by creating a new, clean, and truly object-oriented model with modularity, cohesion, and testability in mind. We will introduce the model into the existing application in a secure manner, leaving ourselves an option to withdraw changes at any point in time. Fully automated tests will make sure that both models produce consistent results. EventStorming will help us set priorities right and understand the business impact of our changes.

Finally, we’ll get a solid, clean, and object-oriented code aligned with the company's goals and agile software development best practices.

More info at DevTernity.com

Modular Monoliths vs. Distributed Synchronous Systems vs. Event Driven Systems

4 Dec 2020, Riga, Latvia

 Jakub Nabrdalik
Solution Architect, Developer and Mentor at Bottega IT Minds, ex-Head of Software Development @ 4Finance
In this workshop, I’ll take you through 3 different architecture styles. We will design a non-trivial system and find out the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. We will discuss the typical design errors, problems and solutions. We will finally learn how to create a hybrid solution, and how what to optimize our architecture for.

During this workshop we will be working with a C4 model. If you don’t know it, do not worry, it’s simple enough to master in 15 minutes. This workshop is technology agnostic, but we will focus on the backend architecture and services.

Surprising as it is, this workshop can also help Product Owners and Managers to communicate with their teams. At least that’s the experience we’ve had so far.

More info at DevTernity.com

Advanced Jedi Techniques

4 Dec 2020, Riga, Latvia

 Maxim Dorofeev
Founder @ mnogosdelal.ru, ex-Head of IT @ Kaspersky Lab, Author of Jedi Techniques
This practical workshop will equip you with necessary skills for accomplishing more, with less stress and efforts, and bring you closer to the work-life balance on a win-win basis. After the training, you will know how to achieve more at work and personal life simultaneously (instead of conventional view: “one at the expense of another”).

NEW in 2020: How should one handle vague/unclear/huge projects? How to get into individual brainstorming mode and think unthinkable?

NEW in 2020: Distinguishing between good and bad procrastination and the practical session of group de-procrastination.

More info at DevTernity.com

Didn't find a training for you? No problem, let us know what topic you are interested in and we will handle all organizational aspects including finding the best trainer, price negotiation and logistics. Please let us know if you prefer on-premises training.