DevOps Research for Professionals: from Tools to Best Practices

Navigating the agile landscape: Modern agile solutions for recurrent challenges

In this talk, we will embark on a journey through the ever-evolving world of agile methodologies, evaluate its applications, and challenges and identify the right processes for our multiple engineering teams. We will review and share strategies to overcome recurrent challenges faced by agile practitioners. Join us to discover innovative solutions and gain a deeper understanding of modern agile methodologies that can revolutionise your team's approach to software development. Speaker With a background as a C# developer, William Mendes is specialised in leading teams through critical challenges and delivering solutions for top e-commerce companies in Brazil, Latin America, and Europe. William has excelled in technical leadership, mentoring, and teaching, while also spearheading innovative teams at renowned companies including Farfetch, and currently Feedzai, where he works as an Engineering Manager for the SRE team.

Breaking Stereotypes - How DevOps empowers an analytics consulting company (Português)

==== Em Português ==== Discover how LTPLabs, an analytics consulting company, has embraced DevOps to improve how to deliver and develop analytical projects. They will show how they create performant data science environments, streamline development processes, and leverage a wide range of open-source tools for observability, GitOps, and orchestration in a hybrid cloud approach.

DevOps Research for Professionals: from Tools to Best Practices

“Scientific research” is often perceived as far from the everyday practice of professionals developing, shipping, and running software systems. Yet, this is hardly true for much research. This meetup will look at some examples of DevOps research projects. We will start with well-known examples such as DORA and look into some of our research at FEUP with results that professionals can use to significant effect, including novel tools and proven best practices.

DORA Metrics (PT)

Bio Fernando Ike é Gerente Senior de Tecnologia no PicPay (Head of Production Engineering), trabalhou como liderança técnica ou de pessoas em diferente indústrias como: Governo, Startups e empresas tradicionais. Trabalhou em startups como QuintoAndar (Real Estate), Zup (IT Consultant), Nuveo (Computer Vision), Escola Mais (EdTech), Akamai (CDN) e StackPath (CDN). Colaborou com projetos Open Source como Pydantic, PostgreSQL, Debian e Hoursec. Sumário DORA Metrics deu visibilidade ao ciclo de desenvolvimento de software e Operação de TI de forma a vê-los de forma única, como parte fundamental do fluxo de valor de organizações exponenciais. As métricas em si podem não significar muito se não houver uma estratégia direcionada de usá-las para validar experimentos, adoção de tecnologias e/ou dar visibilidades aos gargalos. Esta apresentação é um pequeno ensaio de como foi implementar DORA Metrics nas organizações e algumas lições aprendidas.

Are Platform teams the next DevOps?

Platform teams were defined in the seminal book Team Topologies [https://teamtopologies.com/book] (by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais) and are quickly becoming the new standard for teams working in Infrastructure. But what exactly are Platform teams? What does it mean to work on a Platform as a product? Talk + Discussion "Platform as a product" by Manuel Pais Savvy organizations are discovering the value of treating their internal platforms as products. But what does it mean to treat a "platform as a product"? What benefits does this give, and why would an organization adopt this approach?In this talk, Manuel Pais, co-author of the book Team Topologies, explains why the platform-as-product approach can be a game-changer for organizations building and running software-enabled products and services. Using ideas & patterns from Team Topologies - including Thinnest Viable Platform, team cognitive load, and the evolutionary team interaction modes - Manuel explains how organizations like Uswitch and Adidas have successfully used the platform-as-product model to accelerate and simplify the delivery of software at scale. Talk + Discussion Accelerating large engineering organisations with Internal Platforms by João Alves João Alves is an Engineering Manager at Adevinta in Barcelona. Adevinta [https://www.adevinta.com/our-brands]'s portfolio spans more than 40 digital brands, covering one billion people and attracting approximately three billion average monthly visits.João has helped to implement the Platform team model at Adevinta and will be sharing the lessons learned from creating a successful Platform team with us.