Diatom Enterprises expands the React/Node.js development team
Diatom is a company – experts in react Development Services. Our main goal is to expand Diatom Enterprises development team with new strengths and invite new developers to an existing international project, related to European railway communication. Our business development director, Darja Krizska-Popova says, “This project is a great opportunity for us to meet new […]
Baltic Outlook about the the company Diatom Enterprises and Robot Pepper
A polite and pleasant host, an attentive and compassionate listener… Already sounds like you’d want to hire this person as your company’s receptionist, salesperson, or client assistant? First of all, this is not a person, but a robot. Pepper is the first humanoid robot capable of reading and responding to human emotions. Pepper will interpret […]
Diatom’s 2017 Year in Review
This is actually one of our favorite activities, because memories, words, sometimes even things done are forgotten and lost over time. However, that which is written with a pen – or in today’s world, with the keyboard – stays if not forever, at least for a long time. The year of 2017 has been varied. […]
The 4th episode of the Pepper vlog is out
It is so incredible to see how the robot Pepper has developed. When we first met, the only thing he could do was to say ‘Hello’ to everybody. Now, we can see him talking to himself, joking or even predicting the future, just like a human being. Of course, this is thanks to those who […]
November Events: Riga Comm 2017
The two-day Riga Comm 2017 event will be held on November 9–10, 2017, at Kipsala International Exhibition Centre in Riga, Latvia. We will be glad to welcome you to the A15/A17 booth and tell you more about our custom software development services. Additionally, we would love to introduce you to our special team member, Robot Pepper, […]
November Events: ELM workshop at Diatom
The event will take place on November 4 (Saturday) in our office, which is located at Straupes iela 5, k-1 in Riga. We are very excited that this meet-up will be organized together with Google Developers Group Riga (GDG Riga). We have long been dreaming of organizing something useful and fascinating together since both organizations […]
Must Visit: Top IT Events This Fall/Winter 2017
We at Diatom Enterprises strongly believe that one of the best ways to learn more about innovations and changes in your industry (in our case, software development and everything related to information technology) is to attend events such as exhibitions, seminars and conferences. In a small city like Riga, developing yourself in this manner used […]
Latvian companies are a reliable partner for the U.S. businesses
We are frequently asked by people about the business reason for Diatom’s membership in the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia (AmCham Latvia). Today we would like to share some of the clear benefits of being members of AmCham Latvia, describe our experience collaborating with US companies, and describe why, in our opinion, those companies […]
Diatom has successfully upgraded the ISO certification!
We are glad to inform you that Diatom Enterprises has passed the quality system re-audit and as a result moved to the new ISO 9001:2015 standard. ISO abbreviation stands for “International Organization of Standardization”, so when a company is ISO 9001-certified, it is recognized to have a high-level, quality management system. The new version of […]
New Vlog Episode, “Team Work”, is released!
We continue to shoot our vlog about Pepper Robot’s life in the Diatom office. As we predicted, Pepper continues to meet new challenges working here as an intern and being surrounded by so many people. For instance, last time in Episode 2, Pepper had to meet all our colleagues and integrate into the working process. It was not […]
US Independence Day Picnic Celebration 2017
For many years, Diatom Enterprises has been honoured to work with US companies on custom software development projects. Due to its tight connections with the United States, Diatom has been a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia for more than 10 years, almost from the very first days of the company. Last […]
Internal TechMeeting on Docker
Almost every month Diatom organizes Technical Meetings (or TechMeetings), where our developers talk about new technologies, what they learned recently and how it can be applied to current projects, and what problems or solutions have been recently discovered. Alexander Semionov, our Technical Lead, before the presentation about Docker Last week we held a TechMeeting dedicated to […]
Software Development for the Pepper Robot
Pepper is one of the first humanoid robots on the market that is capable of identifying the principal human emotions: joy, anger and surprise. She is able to scan non-verbal language, such as the angle of a person’s head. Pepper is a very friendly robot who reaches out to communicate with humans But one of […]
New Episode “Getting Around” of our Vlog is released!
As you might remember, we have recently started a vlog series about Robot Pepper becoming Diatom’s employee. The previous episode seemed to cause a lot of interest among our subscribers. In the first episode “Arrival” you could see how we have brought Pepper to the office, how she has met us and how she was […]
New Vlog series “Robot Intern at Diatom Enterprises”
Being deeply interested in AI and robotics we learned that no one should get cosy at the work chair. The intelligent machines are on the march and becoming so sophisticated that this is quite naive to think that they would not outperform humans one day. Which is not a problem but an opportunity in our […]