Last July at PortoData event I made my first co-presentation with my friend Miguel Alho (@MytyMyky) and the explored topic was the relationship between databases and applications in the development process.

After doing some presentations about database developing process and DevOps, this presentation was the “missing link” that allows the audience to see the “big picture”.

The presentation chosen title was “Delivering changes for applications and databases” and its content is the result of the shared experience by me and Miguel at Celfinet. The challenges of the interaction/dependency between applications and databases were the main topic. We also explored the tools and process that helped us to overcome that challenges.

A good communication protocol between development and database/operations and automation, a lot of automation in the process definition, were the key factors to achieve our goal: a development pipeline which included source control, continuous integration and continuous delivery.

I presented my perspective of  database development while Miguel presented the application development perspective, we represented the common division between applications and operations. The audience reaction and questions about the way Miguel and I established a communication protocol and a development process that included databases and applications was very interesting. At the end of the presentation we were happy with the audience feedback, an experience to repeat I say!

Here are the slides from our presentation: