All talks

Saving on AI with local models

Speaker: Саид Авхадеев

Meetup: AlmatyJS Popup #2 — AI, local models, and an outside perspective on web development ( 30 May 2026 )

When local models help cut costs, where they can be used in development, and which trade-offs to consider.

An outside perspective on web development

Speaker: Магжан Биргебайулы

Meetup: AlmatyJS Popup #2 — AI, local models, and an outside perspective on web development ( 30 May 2026 )

How web development looks from the perspective of product, business, users, and adjacent engineering disciplines.

AI agents on speed: how to survive and thrive in the era of autonomous development

Speaker: Андрей Бойченко

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #8 x Bereke Bank ( 16 April 2026 )

AI agents ‘on speed’ and autonomous development: what's changing in the process and how to prepare for it.

Skills you haven't leveled up yet

Speaker: Никита Баев

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #8 x Bereke Bank ( 16 April 2026 )

How to build and maintain AI skills: we'll explore what really helps at work and what creates more noise.

Why many frontend developers still live in the React 16–17 paradigm and miss key features of newer versions

Speaker: Илья Ежов

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #7 x Bereke Bank ( 11 December 2025 )

A talk on why many frontend developers still live in the React 16–17 paradigm and miss key features of newer versions.

How to truly use AI in development instead of vibe coding for the hype

Speaker: Станислав Усанов

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #7 x Bereke Bank ( 11 December 2025 )

A talk on how to truly use AI in development instead of vibe coding for the hype.

Vue's fastest mode and the modern high-performance stack through an engineer's eyes

Speaker: Герман Шляйгер

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #7 x Bereke Bank ( 11 December 2025 )

A talk on Vue's fastest mode and what a modern high-performance stack looks like through an engineer's eyes.

How to formulate and design instructions for AI agents so they solve real problems

Speaker: Роман Куракин

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #7 x Bereke Bank ( 11 December 2025 )

A talk on how to formulate and design instructions for AI agents so they solve real problems.

Bun: hype or the runtime of the future?

Speaker: Марк Байдебура

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #6 x Bereke Bank ( 1 April 2025 )

An overview of the new JavaScript runtime Bun and its prospects

RTL development

Speaker: Нұржан Мейрамбайұлы

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #6 x Bereke Bank ( 1 April 2025 )

The specifics of developing interfaces for right-to-left languages

How do you prepare files for production?

Speaker: Алекс Рассудихин

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #6 x Bereke Bank ( 1 April 2025 )

Optimizing and preparing files for a production environment

Writing custom ESLint rules

Speaker: Владимир Стариков

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #6 x Bereke Bank ( 1 April 2025 )

Creating custom ESLint rules for your project

AI agents everywhere and for everyone

Speaker: Максим Титов

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #6 x Bereke Bank ( 1 April 2025 )

Integrating AI agents into modern development

FrontendOps and production for a side project

Speaker: Арман Нургалиев

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #6 x Bereke Bank ( 1 April 2025 )

Setting up CI/CD and infrastructure for personal projects

Is div a universal solution for every task?

Speaker: Рассудихин Алекс

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #5 x Altel Digital ( 28 November 2024 )

A talk on semantic markup and the proper use of HTML tags

Playwright or Cypress?

Speaker: Анастасия Проскурякова

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #5 x Altel Digital ( 28 November 2024 )

Exploring one of the most common questions in test automation

IT and business: why doesn't your manager understand you?

Speaker: Нурлан Жумахан

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #5 x Altel Digital ( 28 November 2024 )

A talk on why developers need to understand business processes

Yet Another FSD Presentation

Speaker: Ербол Султанбаев

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #5 x Altel Digital ( 28 November 2024 )

A talk on FSD architecture and its use in projects

Making AI editors your greatest allies

Speaker: Марк Байдебура

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #5 x Altel Digital ( 28 November 2024 )

How to turn AI editors into your greatest allies rather than random interns

Why do we get rejected? Interviews through an interviewer's eyes

Speaker: Илья Ежов

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #5 x Altel Digital ( 28 November 2024 )

An insider's view of the interview process from a technical specialist

Biz+Dev=❤️

Speaker: Сергей Андреев

Meetup: AlmatyJS #4 ( 21 September 2024 )

How to change the way you work with business stakeholders to reduce deadline pressure and make time for refactoring

Back to the Future? Where web development is heading

Speaker: Атай Кебеков

Meetup: AlmatyJS #4 ( 21 September 2024 )

A discussion of what the future of web development holds

Improving UX with streaming

Speaker: Павел Гасанов

Meetup: AlmatyJS #4 ( 21 September 2024 )

How to avoid losing users who are unwilling to wait for your site to load

MobX recipes: advanced practices for large projects

Speaker: Максим Титов

Meetup: AlmatyJS #4 ( 21 September 2024 )

Up-to-date information on state management approaches in React apps

Ship it to production now!

Speaker: Максим Горбатюк

Meetup: AlmatyJS #4 ( 21 September 2024 )

Why every developer should deploy their side project to production

No-console: use devtools as intended

Speaker: Адыл Жоро

Meetup: AlmatyJS #4 ( 21 September 2024 )

How to debug code effectively

Product analytics: how do you know how good your product is?

Speaker: Уалихан Оразбаев

Meetup: AlmatyJS #4 ( 21 September 2024 )

How to understand how good your product is

Is the market always right?

Speaker: Андрей Васильев

Meetup: AlmatyJS #4 ( 21 September 2024 )

A talk on how to adapt and avoid mistakes

Microfrontends: what they are and why you need them

Speaker: Алдияр Марат

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #4 ( 31 March 2024 )

A talk on the difference between a monolith and a microfrontend, and what to choose in 2024

Do we need FrontOps?

Speaker: Герман Шляйгер

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #4 ( 31 March 2024 )

A talk on DevOps practices from a frontend perspective

Client-server interaction

Speaker: Роман Куракин

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #4 ( 31 March 2024 )

A talk on the API First approach and its pros and cons

The role of business orientation in frontend development

Speaker: Алия Ермахан

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #4 ( 31 March 2024 )

A talk on the importance of developers understanding the business

HTMX: what it is and why it's the future of web development

Speaker: Мурат Купенов

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #4 ( 31 March 2024 )

A talk about a new curiosity in development: HTMX

Frontend consultations and whom to get them from

Speaker: Санжар Шахмерден

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #4 ( 31 March 2024 )

A talk to help you get past a development dead end

How to overcome your fear and make your first PR

Speaker: Никита Баев

Meetup: HacktoberFest 2023 w/ Altel Digital ( 12 October 2023 )

A talk on overcoming fear and making your first pull request to open source projects

React Native: native modules

Speaker: Аяулым Әлжанова

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #3 ( 26 September 2023 )

Working with mobile devices' native modules using React Native

Reduced motion: designing interfaces for people who prefer less movement

Speaker: Тимур Жигмытов

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #3 ( 26 September 2023 )

Creating interfaces that respect users' reduced motion preferences

Avoid five things, pursue five things, if you want to be a good FrontDev

Speaker: Қосбай Орынбасар

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #3 ( 26 September 2023 )

How to be a good frontend developer

Web Vitals: what are they, what are they for, and why?

Speaker: Дмитрий Данилов

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #3 ( 26 September 2023 )

What to optimize on a page to improve Web Vitals metrics

Generating code on the fly

Speaker: Инсан Айтқожа

Meetup: Flutter Talks #1 x Dar U ( 23 September 2023 )

Flutter code generation technology with live examples using Mason

Flutter undercover

Speaker: Владимир Ли и Нурайым Омурбекова

Meetup: Flutter Talks #1 x Dar U ( 23 September 2023 )

Integrating Flutter modules into a native app. A back-to-back talk

Flutter Web: are we going to production?

Speaker: Ерасыл Майханов

Meetup: Flutter Talks #1 x Dar U ( 23 September 2023 )

Flutter Web expectations and capabilities: a real app for six platforms from a single codebase

Tests: how routine makes life easier

Speaker: Андрей Васильев

Meetup: AlmatyJS #3 @ Smart Space SmArt.Point ( 29 July 2023 )

How well-established processes and routines make developers' lives easier

From an HTML template to pixels

Speaker: Бекжан Бөрбеков

Meetup: AlmatyJS #3 @ Smart Space SmArt.Point ( 29 July 2023 )

The subtleties of browser page rendering and the stages a browser goes through to display pixels on the screen

Fear and Loathing in GitHub Actions

Speaker: Владимир Евстратов

Meetup: AlmatyJS #3 @ Smart Space SmArt.Point ( 29 July 2023 )

CI/CD in GitHub Actions for frontend and mobile apps, with tips for improving deployment and builds

Let's do stuff right

Speaker: Максим Горбатюк

Meetup: AlmatyJS #3 @ Smart Space SmArt.Point ( 29 July 2023 )

How to organize teamwork effectively, why it matters, and how to convince colleagues of its benefits

It's time to start testing

Speaker: Андрей Васильев

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #2 @ Freedom SmArt.Point ( 1 April 2023 )

On the importance of testing and properly configuring development tools

AWS for frontend developers

Speaker: Адильхан Сатемиров

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #2 @ Freedom SmArt.Point ( 1 April 2023 )

How to use AWS services to host an app in the cloud and deliver it anywhere in the world with minimal latency

React Server Components: a new approach to server-side rendering

Speaker: Дэниз Демирсой

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #2 @ Freedom SmArt.Point ( 1 April 2023 )

A new approach to server-side rendering using React Server Components

Bad advice on unit tests

Speaker: Максим Горбатюк

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #2 @ Freedom SmArt.Point ( 1 April 2023 )

How to shoot yourself in the foot when writing unit tests

Working with data in Next.js

Speaker: Илья Дёмин

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #2 @ Freedom SmArt.Point ( 1 April 2023 )

One approach to managing data in modern web apps

Building a flexible application architecture and architectural methodologies for the frontend

Speaker: Уалихан Оразбаев

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #2 @ Freedom SmArt.Point ( 1 April 2023 )

Approaches to building flexible web app architecture

Developer experience: my experience improving developer productivity

Speaker: Лут Нурахметов

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #1 x Altel Digital ( 14 December 2022 )

Experience improving developer productivity through better Developer Experience

Getting started as a team lead

Speaker: Тахмина Шаимова

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #1 x Altel Digital ( 14 December 2022 )

The story of becoming a team lead and advice for those who want to follow this path

Basic ways to optimize a web app

Speaker: Илья Дёмин

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #1 x Altel Digital ( 14 December 2022 )

Basic web app optimization techniques for resolving slow loading

Three stories from the frontend

Speaker: Олег Брежнев

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #1 x Altel Digital ( 14 December 2022 )

Three frontend stories from a developer's experience

How often should you switch projects?

Speaker: Максим Горбатюк

Meetup: AlmatyJS Light #1 x Altel Digital ( 14 December 2022 )

Reflections on how often a developer should switch projects during their career

What's good and what's bad? How to keep interviews from becoming a nightmare

Speaker: Максим Горбатюк

Meetup: AlmatyJS #2 ( 20 November 2022 )

A discussion of how to conduct interviews properly without making them a nightmare for candidates

Geovisualization: tools and libraries, a retrospective through my own project

Speaker: Никита Купа

Meetup: AlmatyJS #2 ( 20 November 2022 )

An overview of geovisualization tools and libraries based on a real project

Serverless: JavaScript development in the cloud

Speaker: Галымжан Абдугалимов

Meetup: AlmatyJS #2 ( 20 November 2022 )

An introduction to serverless JavaScript development and its benefits

Microservices on the frontend: could they become mainstream?

Speaker: Павел Конников

Meetup: AlmatyJS #1 x Alfa Bank ( 29 June 2019 )

A discussion of microservice architecture on the frontend and its prospects

Why does a client need a dedicated GraphQL client on the client side?

Speaker: Павел Черторогов

Meetup: AlmatyJS #1 x Alfa Bank ( 29 June 2019 )

Exploring the need for a dedicated GraphQL client and its benefits

What should you know about React Native before getting started?

Speaker: Галымжан Абдугалимов

Meetup: AlmatyJS #1 x Alfa Bank ( 29 June 2019 )

Important aspects of React Native to know before you start developing

20 juniors a year

Speaker: Мария Цветкова

Meetup: AlmatyJS #1 x Alfa Bank ( 29 June 2019 )

Experience training junior developers and supporting their development throughout the year

Building a hybrid app (Preact + WebView) using a restaurant service as an example

Speaker: Бауыржан Шайхисламов

Meetup: AlmatyJS #1 x Alfa Bank ( 29 June 2019 )

Experience building a hybrid app with Preact and WebView