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A map of the Czech Republic marked with pins, where you can get vaccinated for COVID-19, featuring the Profinit logo.
Peter Čmelík

Where can I get vaccinated? The application from OpenDataLab will tell you!

Go to the website ockovani.opendatalab.cz to get an overview of the openings to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The goal of the application is to give Czechs a quick overview of vaccination capacity, which, until now, hasn’t been available anywhere. The application…

Floating 3D cubes with the React logo and text, highlighting dynamic configuration, and the Profinit Software Engineering logo.
Antonín Teichmann

Build once, deploy many in React: Dynamic configuration properties

Build once, deploy many is an essential principle of SW development. But it has not received support in front-end development, and React is no exception.

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Lukáš Dvořák

How using data helps banks minimize the risks of loan default

Automation of your scoring mechanism using predictive models enables a shift from reactive to proactive credit risk management

Colorful diagonal stripes with Java and Profinit Software Engineering logos—a theme related to Kotlin and project modernisation.
Štěpán Poljak

How Kotlin can help with old project modernisation

Kotlin has all the glamour we need. It has many of the cool features of the latest Java, it can also be used alongside existing Java code in the same project!

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Barbora Fuksa

Reflections on Insurance Forum Austria 2020

Earlier this month, before the second wave of COVID-19 properly hit Central Europe, I was very excited and lucky to be able to attend my second live event of 2020: Insurance Forum Austria by Business Circle. Organized in Rust near the beautiful Neusiedler See, we spent one and…

Petr Paščenko, Profinit's Head of Data Sicence giving lecture on Social scoring and credit forecasting with Profinit logo in the corner.
Lukáš Dvořák

Social Scoring and Credit Forecasting: Data Science Breakfast

We held another professional breakfast, this time on the topic of credit forecasting. The breakfast was mainly directed at professionals from the fields of AI, data analysis, and modelling, but we also gladly welcomed directors and managers, especially from the banking sector as they are…

A Swiss Army knife labeled Software Engineering & Computer Science with various full-stack tools extended with Profinit logo in the corner.
Michal Petřík

Full-stack, T-shaped, M-shaped, comb-shaped, … can we stop it, please?

History tends to repeat itself. It is a simple fact to embrace, especially in IT. Principles defined 70 years ago and nearly forgotten 40 years ago are trending again. Yes, I am talking about functional programming, for example. All modern programming languages support…

DevOpsCon London and Profinit logos on a blue abstract background, highlighting Profinit presence at DevOps conference.
Filip Dyrčík

DevOpsCon London 2020: The Online Conference

Profinit was to participate in DevOpsCon for the first time in April 2020. The conference was supposed to take place in the heart of London, but the COVID-19 pandemic prevented that from happening.

A view of Earth from space with orbital lines symbolising the information paradox of stories with Profinit logo in the corner.
Petr Hájek

The Information Paradox of Stories

According to a quote attributed to American poet Muriel Rukeyser, “the universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” Perhaps surprisingly, this opinion is supported by astrophysicist Brian Greene in his recent book Until the End of Time. While our “objective” external world really seems…

Webinar titled Banking transactions predictive analytics by Dominik Matula, Senior data scientist, hosted by Profinit.
Peter Čmelík

WEBINAR: Revealing clients’ behaviour from transactional data

We are living in a world of relations. Every click on a link, every article, image or video you have seen, every like you have given – those all make relations between you and some content. This fact is not applicable to social media exclusively.