Since the emergence of Taylorism and of the specialized worker executing one specific task, working methods never stopped to evolve. Nowadays, in the era of self-management, we make sure that every employee has been given the keys to participate in the decision making process and to perform his mission.

Once a week, Havas Blockchain interviews key people of the blockchain ecosystem. Sébastien Bourguignon, our Principal & Lead Digital Influencer, accepted to participate in this initiative. Discover his interview:

Paris Containers Day (PCD) took place, perhaps not surprisingly, in Paris on June 26th. About 300 people, including both speakers and attendees gathered at the New Cap Events Center to discuss Orchestration. The day started with a surprise keynote where an orchestra played a few pieces including Mozart, Holst & Arensky. The point was to prove that synchronization and good use of resources is at the essence of productivity.

Regarding the blockchain technology, observers are endlessly debating many points which are, for the most part, totally false or at least only a very small side issue. And if there is one subject that has been debated for many months, it is for sure the energy-consuming aspect of blockchain. Thus, many experts argue about the misdeeds of blockchain on the environment, assuming that it is a real energy calamity for our planet. But then, who is really right in this battle between pro and anti blockchain on its energy consumption? Is there only one truth?

TalkingData, China’s largest independent big data service platform, covers over 70% of active mobile devices nationwide. Their current approach to prevent click fraud for app developers is to measure the journey of a user’s click across their portfolio, and flag IP addresses who produce lots of clicks, but never end up installing apps. While successful, they want to always be one step ahead of fraudsters and have turned to the Kaggle community for help in further developing their solution.

TensorFlow is a software library, open source since 2015, of numerical computation developed by Google. The particularity of TensorFlow is its use of data flow graphs.

Do you know the Lamport clocks? Devoxx France 2018 was the opportunity, during the very interesting talk of DuyHai DOAN , to discover or rediscover this algorithm formalized by Leslie Lamport in 1978, more than ever used today in the field of distributed systems, and which would have inspired the Kafka developers in the implementation of the pattern of Idempotent Producer .

You finally have your favourite notebook, your Spark cluster is well configured and powerful, and your HDFS contains everything you need in data. And yet, do you know that you can boost the added value of your data, thanks to the power of OLAP? At the Devoxx France 2018 conference, Antoine Chambille, R & D Director at Activeviam , came to present the Sparkube project that has just been launched.

Since the release of Android 1.0 in 2008, the Android ecosystem has evolved enormously, but especially in recent years, with the new contributions of the Java language, changes related to terminals and the appearance of new tools. Recommendations and good practices have evolved accordingly.

Margo Consultants participated in  Devoxx France 2018 , the conference for Passionate Developers, organized from April 18 to 20, 2018 in Paris. Discover a synthesis on reactive systems illustrated by a concrete use case.

On Tuesday, April 17th 2018, the Margo HR team attended the French Digital Women Day (Journée de la Femme Digitale), thought up by Delphine Remy-Boutang. It was a great opportunity to meet inspiring, bold, innovative and creative women. On the agenda: CEOs, Senior Officials, intra and entrepreneurs, Heads of Communication, General Managers, Secretaries of State. Many profiles with various careers and one common goal: innovation for all and by all.

When you start a Kaggle challenge, a computer is usually needed to hold all dataset in the memory and accelerate the training with your GPU. Rather than purchasing a new computer, I'd like to do it free with 300$ credit offered by Google Cloud Platform.

Reinforcement learning is considered as the science of decision-making: trying to understand the optimal way to make decisions. Nowadays, it is applied in many different fields and has achieved many distinguished accomplishments.

Google offers about 50 different products in its Cloud solution, from storage and computing infrastructure to Machine Learning, including massive data analysis and transformation tools. These solutions are mainly quick to set up (around 10 minutes or less) and cheap compared to standard on premise softwares.

Paris, February 12, 2018 - Margo, a French Consulting company created in 2005 and historically specialized in IT and in the Financial Markets, changes its business model in order to accompany new industries in their transformation plans. This is also the opportunity for Margo to reveal its new original brand identity, using a customizable logo.

Margo was able to offer me interesting missions with transparent relationships with the clients. I felt in a bond of trust right away.

The project to regulate packaged retail investment and insurance products (PRIIPs) started in 2012. With good reason: they are at the core of the retail investment market and represent 10 trillion euros in Europe.

To sum up Margo in a word, I would say 'innovation'. We aren't happy just doing what we already know how to do. We always try to find and put new ideas into place. One example is the transformation currently taking place at Margo.

These three letters were the focus of the meet-up on 9 June last at the Microsoft offices. Domain Driven Design: not a framework or a methodology but a software development approach driven by the domain. This is what the three speakers undertook to show us during this afternoon of live coding.

Since 2013, we have chosen Ecovadis to assess our CSR policy. Ecovadis operates the first collaborative platform providing Sustainability Ratings for companies.

Babacar, a Margo consultant, gives us his definition of Craftsmanship. An interesting view which focuses on the main principles of Software Craftsmanship, an essential everyday tool for today's developer.

François-Xavier joined Margo on leaving the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne. He tells us how his career has developed through training and missions.

Meet our team in charge of a client-oriented web application.

At the beginning of 2016, there were already eight Margos working in this department. Today, they are 11, and it’s not even the end!

I joined Margo straight after engineering college as a junior. I was soon able to start my first mission, thanks in particular to the support and interview preparation I benefited from - that's incidentally why I chose Margo. My first mission was as a Java and C developer on a Back Office application covering the entire Forex field. I also had a role in technical support. After a year and a half on a mission, I want to move into a contract owner type of role to learn more about financial markets.

I got to know Margo through a friend who co-opted me. I particularly liked the focus on quality, not only around clients but also consultants: their management and their missions.

Margo puts its developers in the spotlight and invites you to find out more about their daily life, the challenges and technical pressures facing a C++ developer in the financial market.

Margo starts an exclusive partnership with Stackoverflow. With a “enterprise” profile, Margo is able to advertise job offers, especially for C#, C++ and Java Developers.