Roadmap review and retrospective 2022: Business Operations

The Roadmap Managing Goals Certification Reading Writing Community Open-source Training The Review The year 2022 started with a new challenge – managing business operations (BizOps). My mission was to support all the necessary operations to develop the company’s business. To achieve that missing I needed to align activities and information between areas like finance, marketing, sales, people, and of course engineering. Despite liking working at the business level, I missed engineering. So, in September I decided to change company –

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Roadmap review and retrospective 2021: Managing Operations

The Roadmap Programming Language(s) Certification Reading Writing Community R&D The Review With the Operations team growing and the business also growing, 2021 was dedicated to managing and scaling operations in order to support the company’s quick growth. I’m quite good at managing work, managing people was a new challenge. Managing people is hard, but when you start to get the hang of it is very rewarding. Programming Language(s) I continued using and improving Python. I wasn’t able to dedicate some

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Roadmap review and retrospective 2020: MLOps

The Roadmap Architecture MLOps Python Cloud Providers Kubernetes Monitoring DevOpsDays Portugal 2020 edition Reading Blog The Review New year in a new company with a lot of new things to learn. The main topic is Machine Learning since it’s the core discipline of Deeper Insights, my new company. Architecture I improved my knowledge of systems architecting since this year’s work included: MLOps In order to do a good job as an Operations Engineer, it was important to acquire knowledge about

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Roadmap review and retrospective 2018: Azure Power

2018: Azure Power Azure Resources Monitoring PowerShell Build functions and modules Testing Infrastructure (Pester) Database (tSQLt) Docker Add containers to the deployment pipeline Open Source Create a open source project: OctoDeployPower (Octopus Deploy + PowerShell in order to get a pipeline was code) I started 2018 with a new work achievement by writing an article for InfoQ: Why and How Database Changes Should Be Included in the Deployment Pipeline. The article’s title couldn’t be more explicit regarding the article’s content.

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Roadmap review and retrospective 2017: DevOps way

DevOps DevOps as Code Pipeline – the ultimate cultural tool Delivering changes for databases (including databases in the DevOps routine) Database Data masking Data generation Source Control Redgate SQL Source Control Migrations vs State Continuous Integration Jenkins 2 TeamCity Travis CI VSTS Build Continuous Delivery Octopus Deploy (@ Linux) VSTS Release Management Configuration Management Puppet Logging Elastic stack (Logstash, Elastic Search, Kibana) Monitoring Azure Monitor Datadog Azure Azure Resource Manager Web Apps SQL Database AWS The basics – resources creation,

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Roadmap review and retrospective 2016: DbOps definition

Source Control Mercurial (TortoiseHg) vs Git (SourceTree) Flyway Redgate (Source Control, DLM Automation Suite) ReadyRoll Continuous Integration Jenkins TFS Build vNext (2015) Database unit/integration tests tSQLt DbFit Continuous Delivery Octopus Deploy TFS Release Management (2015) Infrastruture as Code Chef Puppet Powershell DSC Azure Resource Manager During 2016 the main focus around DevOps was the its definition. My DevOps definition was built around databases operations and development (hence the title “DbOps”). The plan was to cover the 3 stages of the

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Roadmap review and retrospective 2015: Hello WordPress

Introduction to WordPress My first wordpress post: SQLSaturday#429 Porto 2015 experience Recovering an old post: Arduino Christmas Lights My first Porto.Data presentation: XIV Porto.Data 15 December 2015 In the end of 2015 I decided to create this blog with the purpose of documenting and sharing the acquired knowledge during my professional and personal journal. Writing what I learn is a good habit and helps me to structure my knowledge. Plus, is good to share with more people and even better get some feedback

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