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 2019: DevOps Enterprise

2019: DevOps Enterprise Organization Team organization, communication and collaboration Community build and growth Scale knowledge DevOps maturity Work Management Workflow visibility DevOpsDays Portugal Organize the DevOpsDays first edition in Portugal Reading Read at least 6 books The 2019 year was dedicated to DevOps Enterprise. I was really keen to know if challenges described in books like The Phoenix Project were true. Guess what!? They are. Organization Team organization, communication and collaboration A team is probably the most dynamic element in

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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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