DevOpsDays Copenhagen April 24th 2018, Deployment pipeline for databases

DevOpsDays Copenhagen was my first DevOpsDays event and it was my first time in Copenhagen. I really enjoyed Copenhagen, it doesn’t feel like a big city. It’s very organized, cozy and everybody is very friendly. The all logistic for me was very simple:  5 minutes by train from airport to city center, 5 minutes walking from the train station to the hotel, 15 minutes walking from hotel to conference venue. The mornings were rainy and at the afternoons the sun

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DevOps Lisbon June 19th 2017, Operations for databases – The agile/devops journey

In June I made the presentation “Operations for databases – the agile/devops journey” at DevOps Lisbon. This talk is the combination of the different moments of my agile journey through Scrum and Kanban and the operations scope at three different levels: database, application and infrastructure. It was great to present to DevOps Lisbon community and I’m hoping to repeat in future.

SQLPort 22 September 2016 @ Aveiro, Database source control: Migrations vs State

This was the first SQLPort event held in Aveiro. I was invited by Niko Neugebauer to deliver a session and I chose to explore the topic migrations-based approach vs state-based approach for database source control. The purpose of my talk was to let audience know about the two existing approaches to start with source control at database level. After presenting the advantages and disadvantages of each approach I promoted a discussion with the participants so they could understand how, where

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Agile, Scrum and DevOps – The workshop

The workshop “Agile, Scrum and DevOps – Let’s Play with LEGO” is part of  TugaIT 2017 conference schedule and will happen at May 18th. TugaIT 2017 is one the greatest Portuguese IT conference and will happen between May 18th and 20th – 3 days with sessions and workshops to provide the highest possible quality training and knowledge to the community, on a variety of topics. My friend and agile coach Nuno Rafael Gomes (@nrgomes) challenged me to take his original

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#c9d9 Continuous Discussions, Open Source and DevOps

During my vacations in August I participated on a Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) episode about Open Source and DevOps. Continuous Discussions is a community initiative powered by Electric Cloud, and consists of a series of community panels about Agile, Continuous Delivery and Devops. This formate, a discussion panel that debates different perspectives about a specific topic, surprised me with the interaction and fun that was to make part of this event. So, well done #c9d9, I really enjoyed. Following, some insights

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Porto.Data 28 July 2016, Delivering changes for applications and databases

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

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Agile Connect and the DevOps challenge

“How about the operations?” This was a recurring question in the conversations that I had with Nuno Rafael (@nrgomes). After several discussions about agile methodologies and his effects and challenges on the operations world I accepted his challenge to deliver a session at Agile Connect community about DevOps. I decided to give my session, made at June 29, the following title: “DbOps, DevOps and Ops” because my first contact with operations was at database level (as DBA), then I progressed to infrastructure

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