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- Lemonade hit 1 million customers faster than Netflix and Spotify.
- Certified B-Corp delivering social impact
- Automating a whole customer journey from sign-up / authentication through to speed and accuracy of quotes and pay-outs!
- Why Data is so key to your business and how you can make better informed decisions
- Lemonade’s Makers programme and introducing engineers into the business.

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- An intro in to Nate and the business
- Shifting from a B2B focus into a B2C platform and also a soft launch in the USA.
- We discussed four key components that make up Nate – Consumer, Automation, Partnership and Platform.
- Migration to Kubernetes
- Engineering Culture – Nate Company Values, fostering a culture free from judgement/hierarchical status to empower innovation, along with “Personal Growth Fridays” and how they spin off into real-world developing projects.
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- Challenges for building a multi-regional payment architecture.
- Compliance and Regulatory challenges that come with cross-border payments.
- Changes in customer / employee habits to accessing money.
- Leveraging their tech stack and dealing with scale and resiliency.

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We discuss Chris, Pete, and Stephen’s work at Monzo open-sourcing their incident software, and how they decide to move into starting their own company.

- What is incident management?
- Cost of an unclear incident process.
- Building a new incident process.
- What problems are the team trying to solve and why?
- A fascinating description of the technology and people risks in your business and the insights Incident can give you.
- The future of observability?

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Engineering landscape and the engineering culture TravelPerk are fostering

- Industry engineering hiring trends
- Understanding TravelPerk's talent acquisition mindset
- How are you working on retention and growth of people?
- How do you invest in engineering?
- The route to VP of Engineering.
- Challenges, failures / learnings.

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Stream are the #1 chat API for custom messaging apps and started off building activity feeds and slowly started introducing chat messaging API’s which feeds large-volumes of their traffic. Jeroen and Alexei took us on a journey to understand some of the challenges around latency, scalability and mobile performance.

A great discussion which feeds into end-to-end challenges of the platform and why they are critical to one another, especially in an API first product.

- We discuss vertical v horizontal scaling through different API/chat activities.
- Building 3 SDK’s for mobile and importance of CX.

Jeroen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leenarts/
Alexei: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexei-kozlenok-8072b21/

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