On February 24th, we hosted our 30th DevOps & AI Latvia meetup at Workland, a milestone evening filled with thought-provoking talks and great energy from our community!

This time, our speakers brought a fascinating mix of engineering practice, organizational wisdom, and real human depth:

✨Eriks Klotins, engineer and researcher at Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden), delivered his talk “Towards Continuous Everything.” Drawing from industry–academia collaboration projects with globally recognized companies, Ēriks shared honest insights and hard-won lessons on how organizations adopt continuous engineering, from planning all the way through to systematic collection and analysis of user feedback. He walked through common pitfalls, practical solutions, and concrete steps any team can take to improve software delivery. An essential talk for senior engineers, process leaders, and anyone influencing how software ships.

✨Mārtiņš Meļķis product leader and systemic coach, took the stage with something refreshingly different — “Strong, Silent, Lost: What It Means to Be a Man Today?” He explored why so many men today feel fully operational, yet strangely off-mission: caught between a script that no longer fits and a future not yet clear. Sharp, honest, and genuinely moving — exactly the kind of talk that reminds us that behind every DevOps pipeline is a human being trying to figure things out.

💡 Our Lightning Talk came from Māris and Kalvis of KALMARS, who tackled the hot topic of vibe-coding head-on. In 10 punchy minutes, they unpacked the real risks of relying purely on AI when building production-ready SaaS — and introduced HoloKRAKEN, their solution for debugging, monitoring, and protecting your stack. Early beta invitations are open!

This time, the event is sponsored by:

• Workland Telegraph as Event Partner

▶️ Missed it or want a replay? Catch the full recording here: https://www.youtube.com/live/DRchNXwuNGk?si=Rvi8MQsM_DMBoqZ9

Thank you to everyone who joined us, participated in discussions, and helped make this event a success. Don’t forget to join our Slack channel – Techies of Baltics, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for recordings of past meetups.

See you at the next meetup!