#3 Cloud Native Porto | Cloud Native Porto 🤝 AWS UG Porto

🚀 Cloud Native Porto is back for its third meetup — and this time, we’re joining forces with our friends from AWS User Group Porto to support their relaunch in Porto!

After two amazing editions, we’re excited to keep building momentum in the local Cloud Native scene — and what better way than teaming up with another passionate community?

This edition is organised by Cloud Native Porto and AWS UG Porto, with the support of CNCF, Cleva, and Synvert xgeeks — all coming together to bring you another high-quality evening of Cloud Native content and networking.

Expect a solid lineup of talks, deep technical insights, real-world use cases, and plenty of chances to connect with fellow engineers, developers, architects, and cloud enthusiasts. Whether you're all-in on Kubernetes or just starting to explore observability, this evening has something for you.

📍 Location: Cleva Offices, Porto
📅 Date: May 21, 2025
🕡 Time: 18:30
NOTE: 👉 This event will be in-person only. Let’s meet face-to-face and make the most of the hallway track!

🗓 Agenda:

18:30 – Check-in & Welcome 👋

19:00 – 🎤 "OTel Collector in Practice"
Speaker: Juraci Paixão Kröhling – Co-Founder @ OllyGarden & CNCF Ambassador
📄 In this session, Juraci will walk through how the OpenTelemetry Collector works in practice, sharing some useful “recipes” for common use cases. Get ready for a hands-on tour into observability pipelines, the kind you can take back to your own setup and apply directly.

19:30 – 🎤 "Automated Workload Evaluation with Python and CloudWatch"
Speaker: Gabriel Alves – Senior Cloud Security Engineer @ Scopely
📄 Learn how to automate workload evaluation across multiple AWS accounts and regions using a Python script integrated with AWS Organizations. Gabriel will guide us through collecting data from EC2, containers, and Lambda using Boto3, transforming that into measurable workloads, and publishing custom metrics to Amazon CloudWatch to improve visibility, decision-making, and operational efficiency.

20:00 – 🎤 "Limitless Possibilities, Consistent Design: Crafting Dashboards With Perses DAC"
Speaker: Nicolas Takashi – Tech Lead, Observability Unit
📄 Managing dashboards at scale can be challenging. Nicolas will introduce how Perses and Dashboard-as-Code (DAC) help simplify and standardize dashboards, no matter the size of your stack. With Go and Cue SDKs, the CLI tool percli, and reusable mixins and panels, you’ll see how to create flexible and consistent observability experiences. Live demo included!

20:30 – 21:30 – Networking, Food & Drinks 🍕🍻

🎤 Interested in speaking at a future Cloud Native Porto meetup?
We provide the stage — you bring the talk!
👉 Submit your proposal here

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👉 Cloud Native Porto Slack

We’re excited to see you again — let’s keep growing the Cloud Native community in Porto together! 🌍