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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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 …
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 …
I enjoy planning because when planning anything seems possible.On the other side, I don’t like plans because they represent the clash between our expectations and reality. To be precise, what I really don’t like is plan adherence, especially when used as success measure. Plans are nothing; planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower When I joined Deeper Insights the first step was to learn the way of work and the way of managing work, we can call it company culture. After …
2019: DevOps Enterprise Organization Work Management DevOpsDays Portugal Reading 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 Work Management DevOpsDays Portugal Reading
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. …
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 …
Last January 30th I made at PortoData user group a presentation how to use the framework tSQLt to add unit tests to the database. You can check the slides here:
To give a talk for the community that you helped to create is something special and this happened to me in January this year. It was the first DevOps Porto meetup of the year and the selected talk was about my favorite topic: “Operations for databases : the agile/devops journey”.
I was very happy to be invited to make the presentation “Delivering changes for databases and applications” for the NetPonto community. The interaction with the audience was great.