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What is the topic of our next event? A superhero that battles bugs and ensures digital peace – Quality Assurance!
You are welcome to Quality Assurance focused event on Thursday – October 19th 18:30, at Microsoft office – Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor

Agenda for Quality Assurance focused 123th DevClub.lv

• Pavels Ignatovics from Cognizant Latvia will talk about “Evolving Business and Customer Perception in Digital world”
  The digital world has transformed the way businesses operate and interact with customers. Along with evolved digitalization, customers have become more informed and demanding. They expect businesses to provide them with personalized experiences that cater to their needs. In this context, businesses need to evolve their strategies to meet customer expectations and stay ahead of the competition. As the result, Quality Assurance practices must be adapted to the changing landscape.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Industry trends, Customer perception, Customer Experience, Quality Assurance
  
  Pavels is QA Generalist who’s daily duty as Solution Architect is helping global leading companies to shape customized solutions in line with industry best practices and trends.

• Valery Yatsynovich from EPAM will give a talk on “VIVIDUS – your first and last stop for Codeless Test Automation.”
  Ever wondered about codeless test automation? VIVIDUS is an automation tool that offers already implemented solutions for testing the most popular application types.  
  The topic covers the following areas:
  • What a codeless test automation tool offers 
  • The advantages and drawbacks of its usage  
  • Which projects can benefit the most from it 
  • Examining VIVIDUS as one of the examples 

(Language – English)
Tags: Test Automation, Quality Assurance, Open Source

Valery is Solution Architect in Test Automation at EPAM with 16+ years of experience in development, test automation, DevOps practices and more than five years ahead in designing quality architecture for complex projects for S&P 500 companies, often involving solutions that go beyond conventional boundaries.

• Leonids Nahodkins from Accenture will give a talk “Performance testing in the cloud”.  
  This presentation provides a fresh look on specifics of applications in cloud and elaborates on enhanced approaches for various types of performance testing and application monitoring supported by case study of enterprise level media platform testing in cloud. The audience will learn specifics of performance testing in cloud, modern approaches and tools and benefits of running these practices during 3+ years long continuous project. 
  (Language – English)
  
  Leonids Nahodkins – Performance Engineering QA, work in perf testing for about 10 years to date, overall 15+yrs in testing. Worked in many big projects for Nokia, AT&T, Discovery, Channel4,Irish bank

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Accenture Baltics
Ever get bored with system administrator tasks? Switch to DevOps! DevOps teams have end-to-end responsibility and use a wide range of technologies. Our Fortune 100 clients are agile, ambitious, and future-oriented  
– DevOps Specialist
– Senior Java Developer

Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. Want to join a company that’s helping modern businesses improve lives for people everywhere? Look no further than Cognizant! Apply to the roles below:
– Sr. Mulesoft Developer
– Sr. Mulesoft Architect
– Performance Tools Monitoring expert

EPAM is a team of 55,600+ technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– SAP FICO Consultant with CFIN
– Senior MS Power Platform Engineer
– Lead Data Engineer with Azure

C.T.Co employs over 600 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for DevOps Engineers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and FrontEnd Developers.. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo 
– JavaScript Developer
– Azure DevOps Engineer

Emergn is a global digital business services firm on a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life. Want to join us? 
– Lead Developer – Javascript
– .NET Developer
– Senior Software Developer – Javascript

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results
– Senior Software Engineer (Angular/Typescript)
– Client Engagement Manager
– Senior Oracle DBA with DevOps experience

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This month, on a WEDNESDAY, we are meeting to explore a hot topic and what is often thought to be a future problem solver – quantum.

You are welcome to Quantum focused event on WEDNESDAY – September 27th 18:30, at Microsoft office – Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor

Agenda for Quantum focused 122th DevClub.lv

• Maksims Dimitrijevs from the Center for Quantum Computing Science at the University of Latvia will give a talk on “Quantum computers and quantum programming”
  Quantum computers are a hot topic, and society thinks that breakthroughs in quantum computation can help us to solve many problems and improve the quality of life. The possible usefulness of quantum computers attracts many people into the area of quantum computation, and a lot of effort is put from both theoretical and practical sides to speed up advances in quantum computation.
  Today we will have an introduction to the topics of quantum computers and quantum programming. We will first check the basics of quantum phenomena and how these effects are used to perform the computation. We will see how ideas of quantum computers emerged and answer the following questions. What is a quantum computer? How can it be programmed? Which tasks can we solve on it? Are we there yet? Regarding the last question, we will check the market of quantum computing.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Quantum Computers, Quantum Programming
  
  Maksims defended his PhD thesis on topics related to probabilistic computation, and after that transitioned to the area of quantum computation. The first steps in the direction of quantum computation were taken in courses of Prof. Andris Ambainis at the University of Latvia. The next active steps in the quantum journey started with QDrive project, where Maksims was teaching the basics of quantum programming to enthusiasts in different countries. The QDrive project resulted in the foundation of QWorld Association, and Maksims is one of the co-founders. Currently, Maksims works at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing as a docent and researcher.

• Aleksandrs Belovs from the Center for Quantum Computing Science at the University of Latvia will give a talk on “Quantum Algorithms in our Life.”
  There has been a lot of different misconceptions surrounding the field of quantum computation. In this talk, we will try to give a very high-level non-specialist-friendly explanation of the essence of quantum computation. In particular, we will touch on the Shor’s algorithm that breaks the RSA cryptosystem, and demonstrate that the main ideas behind this algorithm have been used with astonishing success for more than a century.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Quantum Computation, Shor’s Algorithm, RSA
  
  Aleksandrs is an associate professor at the Faculty of Computing and a leading researcher at the Center for Quantum Computing Science of the University of Latvia. His main research interests lie in understanding the fundamental powers and limitations of quantum computers.

• Mārtiņš Kālis from the Center for Quantum Computing Science at the University of Latvia will give a talk on “Testing quantum annealing assisted machine learning.”
  When two fields intersect, our goal is to harness the strengths of both to create something remarkable. Yet, frequently, we are severely limited by the combined constraints of those fields. This is the case of quantum machine learning. Mārtiņš will demonstrate some of the hurdles you need to overcome to use the current generation of quantum devices even in toy machine learning applications. He will also show some glimmers of hope that keep the near-term quantum machine learning dream alive.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Quantum Computing, Machine Learning
  
  Mārtiņš is a researcher trying to keep a cool head at the intersection of two hot fields — quantum computing and machine learning..

Videos from previous events you can find at our homepage and our YouTube channel. The best way to be informed about new videos is to Subscribe to our YouTube channel. 

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At Cognizant, you’ll find the opportunity to do great work. A culture that welcomes your ideas and your entrepreneurial spark. Like you, community matters to us. We value work-life balance. Think big, and come grow with us.
– Senior Site Reliability Engineer
– SR. Mulesoft Architect
– Performance Test Engineer

EPAM is a team of 57,450 technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– Junior .NET Full-Stack Engineer
– Junior Java Full-Stack Engineer
– Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

C.T.Co employs over 650 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for DevOps Engineers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and FrontEnd Developers. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– Senior Project Manager
– JavaScript Developer
– Business Analyst

Emergn is a global digital business services firm on a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life. Want to join us? 
– Lead Developer – Javascript
– .NET Developer
– Senior Software Developer – Javascript

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results
– Senior Software Engineer (Java/Typescript)
– Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer w/ DBA experience
– Senior QA Automation Engineer(Selenium)

Accenture Baltics
Ever get bored with system administrator tasks? Switch to DevOps! DevOps teams have end-to-end responsibility and use a wide range of technologies. Our Fortune 100 clients are agile, ambitious, and future-oriented  
– DevOps Specialist
– Senior Java Developer

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As summer winds down, we’re excited to invite you to our final event before fall. Join us for an insightful session focused on Agile.

You are welcome to Agile focused event on Thursday – August 24th 18:30, at Microsoft office – Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor.

Agenda for Agile focused 121th DevClub.lv

• Renārs Ronka from Cognizant will give a talk: “Agile experience in changing environments and the challenges faced. From ways of working and personalities to changes in agile teams.”
  A story of personal experience from projects in Great Brittan and Sweden, as well as the problems faced, when teams changed, expanded or were reshuffled.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Agile, Changes, Personal Experience
  
  Renārs is a Senior Business Analyst with an experience in various roles within software development and agile teams. He started his career as a web developer, followed by a role of a project manager until finally landing into the role of a business analyst. He studied Computer Science in Latvia, which was followed by a Master’s degree in Informatics from a university in Sweden. Renārs has worked in various industries with the most time spent in Financial sector. He does not position himself as an expert in Agile, but will be happy to share his own experience.

• Dmitrijs Lebedevs from EPAM will give a talk on “Cognitive biases and failure of Agile.”
  Let’s explore how those old biases still affect our ability to finish projects on time and within budget, regardless of the methodology. Dmitrijs will explain the technical side of development and how our cognitive skills help us predict upcoming challenges. Drawing from personal experience and the ideas of visionaries like Fred Brooks and others who’ve made a big impact on our field well before our time, let’s see how we can learn from the wisdom of software pioneers.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Agile, Engineering, Cognitive Bias
  
  Dmitrijs is a Software Engineer who walked a mile in almost everybody’s shoes in the industry. For the past 26 years, he rebooted from a developer and test engineer to team lead, architect, engineering manager and you-name-it. Today, as an explorer of entangled pathways of Software Development, he invites you to walk along with him during his talk.

• Hanno Jarvet from Jarvet Consulting will give a talk: “Going Beyond Agile: Influencing Business and Driving Change”
  You have experience in Agile methodologies and corporate change initiatives and find yourself in a position where you have more responsibility. You could expand Agile further and involve more of the business. Perhaps even make the whole organization Agile. How should you go about it in a non-naive way? How can you find some contextually appropriate ways to move your organization forward? Depending on your context and environment, different parts of the Agile methodology are appropriate (but insufficient).
  This talk will help you choose a contextually appropriate approach to drive change. We will look at Wardley Mapping, Strategic Sales and Business Model Canvases to understand how to look at systems and environments and act contextually appropriately to avoid running fool’s errands and pick the battles that can be won with the right tools.
  (Language – English)
  
  Hanno has helped organizations improve performance with Agile and other methods since 2009.

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We – Nine Brains offer different Agile courses (Scrum, Lean, Extreme programming, and others). Several of the Scrum course options you can see on our webpage. Courses on other themes we provide on-demand, and we can tailor-make them just for your needs.
Contact us to get to know more!

EPAM is a team of 57,450 technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– Lead AWS DevOps Engineer
– Senior / Lead SAP MDG Consultant
– Data Technology Consultant

C.T.Co employs over 650 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for DevOps Engineers and Cloud Architects. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– Azure DevOps Engineer
– Cloud Architect

Emergn is a global digital business services firm on a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life. Want to join us? 
– Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)
– .Net Full Stack Developer

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results
– Software Engineer in Test
– Senior React Developer/Architect
– Azure Solutions Architect

Accenture Baltics
Ever get bored with system administrator tasks? Switch to DevOps! DevOps teams have end-to-end responsibility and use a wide range of technologies. Our Fortune 100 clients are agile, ambitious, and future-oriented  
– DevOps Specialist
– Senior Java Developer

Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. Want to join a company that’s helping modern businesses improve lives for people everywhere? Look no further than Cognizant! Apply to the roles below:
– SR. Mulesoft Architect
– Performance Test Engineer
– Snowflake and DBT Developer

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Summer is a perfect time for socializing so get ready to have fun in this month’s event taking place at EPAM’s office.

You are welcome to “Product Management and Mindset” focused event on Thursday – July 27th 18:30, at EPAM office – Gustava Zemgala gatve 74A, building Henrihs, 16th floor LV-1039, Latvia.

Please – Register here

Agenda for Product Management and Mindset focused 120th DevClub.lv

• Roman Zatitskiy from EPAM will give a talk on “Fueling Innovation: Embracing a Product Mindset for Non-Product Heads”

Get insights into value-oriented thinking and bridge the gap between Product Owners and Tech Teams. You will also discover:

• How business value connects to product metrics and impacts customers in the long run
• Why conducting product discovery alongside product delivery is crucial for success
• What sets an MVP apart from being a clumsy scamp version of the real product
• Where to look beyond the traditional understanding of your competitors
• Why running product experiments without building it: idea vs hypothesis
• How embracing a product mindset can empower tech Heads to thrive
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Product Discovery, MVP, Lean Startup
  
  Roman is a Product Discovery Manager with 10+ years in management consulting. His expertise lies in guiding product discovery and launch, from ideation to a working business model. He has launched 3 startups and 5 corporate products across different industries, and his mentorship has helped others launch over 12 products.

• Vasiliy Popov from C.T.Co will talk about three important things that can make or break digital products: product thinking, product philosophy and product validation.
  It’s no longer enough to release your apps or services and hope for the best. You need to engage your users by establishing a communication language, development transparency, and direct feedback channels. But even if you just started working on your product or startup, thinking that you know best what the users need is a sure way to kill your startup quickly. That is why empathy mapping, prototyping, user testing and user validation should be part of your daily vocabulary.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Product Thinking, Product Management, Product Design, User Testing, User Validation, Product Validation, Product Market-Fit
  
  Vasiliy Popov is the Head of the Design Studio in C.T.Co, specializing in designing and delivering innovative digital experiences and products, passionate about good design and finding new ways to solve old problems.

• Uldis Karlovs-Karlovskis from DevOps KK will bring practical ideas on how to keep your software business successful in the talk: “Continuous Deprovement will eat your product for breakfast”
  Product Management and Mindset are crucial components for successful product development. However, even mastering those in a competitive market may not be enough. Having a growing business is a double-edged sword. At the last talk of the evening, Uldis will talk about the typical mistakes in well-managed product development companies and how to overcome them.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Culture, Metrics, Engineering, Management
  
  Uldis Karlovs-Karlovskis is an expert and coach of Agile and DevOps practices with almost 20 years of experience in software engineering and leadership, who sees beyond the data and what people try to explain. Usually, he’s the guy in the back of the room and speaks up only when others are out of ideas or start taking a completely wrong turn. He’s a founder of a Latvia DevOps & Agile Community, a small theatre, and a member of non-profit Psychodrama, Playwrite, and Theatre associations.

Videos from previous events you can find at our homepage and our YouTube channel. The best way to be informed about new videos is to Subscribe to our YouTube channel. 

Did you know that Nine Brains can help you not only with different Tailor-made In-house training almost for any IT needs but with Legacy as well? Contact us to get to know more!

C.T.Co employs over 650 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for DevOps Engineers and Cloud Architects. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– Azure DevOps Engineer
– Cloud Architect

Emergn is a global digital business services firm on a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life. Want to join us? 
– Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)
– .Net Full Stack Developer

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results
– Software Engineer in Test
– Senior React Developer/Architect
– Azure Solutions Architect

Accenture Baltics
Ever get bored with system administrator tasks? Switch to DevOps! DevOps teams have end-to-end responsibility and use a wide range of technologies. Our Fortune 100 clients are agile, ambitious, and future-oriented  
– DevOps Specialist
– Senior Java Developer

Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. Want to join a company that’s helping modern businesses improve lives for people everywhere? Look no further than Cognizant! Apply to the roles below:
– Performance Test Engineer job
– Senior Developer – Genesys Cloud job
– Sr. Mulesoft Developer job

EPAM is a team of 57,450 technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– Senior DevOps Engineer with HPC
– Lead MS Dynamics 365 Engineer
– Senior / Lead GCP Data Engineer

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As the summer starts, we are heading right to the welcoming C.T.Co office to have a lovely evening together.

You are welcome to “Frontend” focused event on Thursday – June 15th 18:30, at C.T.Co office – Meistaru Street 33, Valdlauci, Kekavas parish, Kekavas district, LV-1076, Latvia.

Please – Register here

Please note that entrance to the DevClub meetup will be located on the opposite side of C.T.Co building. You are welcome to use the parking behind the building as that is closer to the entrance you need. Look for location’s details:

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Agenda for Frontend focused 119th DevClub.lv

• Roberts Ivanovs from Provencraft — “Rust on the frontend”.
  Dive beyond JavaScript-based frontend frameworks, and explore the potential of Rust-based web frameworks. Ivanovs will detail their real-world readiness and dissect the intricate WASM-JS interplay. He will share his experiences with WASM, Rust and the Leptos web framework, discussing its strengths and challenges and how it compares with the JS ecosystem.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Web Development, Rust, WASM
  
  Roberts Ivanovs is an experienced software developer specialising in Rust, Solidity, and TypeScript. Apart from his professional work in the web3 space, he leads a vibrant Discord community of developers and entrepreneurs and engages in Rust-based networking and backend development projects.

• Edvins Antonovs will give a talk on “Maximising performance with React code-splitting techniques”
  Building web applications with React is fun, but the JavaScript bundle size can become significant with growing application sizes, leading to slow load times and poor performance. To mitigate this problem, we will use several code-splitting techniques in React that allow you to split your code into smaller chunks, reducing the initial JavaScript bundle’s size and improving your application’s performance.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: React, Web Performance
  
  Edvins has over 8 years of commercial experience working as a front-end engineer, predominantly in product companies and early-stage startups in the United Kingdom. During his career, he built products from scratch, led the front-end team, posted memes, and scaled the existing front-end applications. He enjoys writing blog posts about front-end engineering and learning in public in his digital garden.

• Boris Goriachev from Helpdesk.media will give a talk on “You might want to try Svelte”.
  We have used svelte in production for a year now. It is safe to say — svelte is an awesome peace of software, that does get a lot of things right. I will talk you through some of my favourite things in svelte and share some real life cases.
  This talk might be interesting for frontend devs who might want to explore things outside react/vue ecosystems.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: JS, Svelte, Frontend
  
  Boris has15 years of experience in web development, handling backends, frontends, and mobile applications. His preferred stack includes Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and Svelte (he switched from React a few years back).

Videos from previous events you can find at our homepage and our YouTube channel. The best way to be informed about new videos is to Subscribe to our YouTube channel. 

Did you know that Nine Brains can help you not only with different Tailor-made In-house training almost for any IT needs but with Legacy as well? Contact us to get to know more!

Emergn is a global digital business services firm on a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life. Want to join us? 
– Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)
– .Net Full Stack Developer

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results
– QA Automation Engineer
– Senior React Developer/Architect
– Angular Team Lead/Architect

Accenture Baltics
Ever get bored with system administrator tasks? Switch to DevOps! DevOps teams have end-to-end responsibility and use a wide range of technologies. Our Fortune 100 clients are agile, ambitious, and future-oriented  
– DevOps Specialist
– Senior Java Developer

Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. Want to join a company that’s helping modern businesses improve lives for people everywhere? Look no further than Cognizant! Apply to the roles below:
– Temenos T24 Developer
– Kafka Developer
If you are looking for QA-related roles, leave your CV here

EPAM is a team of 57,450 technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– Azure Solution Architect (with Power Platform)
– Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer 
– Lead Big Data Engineer 

Posti is a modern delivery and fulfillment company. Our HQ is in Helsinki, Finland. Software development center (Posti Messaging Latvia) established in Riga in 2010 to develop group products.

C.T.Co employs over 650 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for DevOps Engineers and Cloud Architects. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– Cloud Architect
– IT System Administrator / DevOps Engineer 

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