DevOps Braga #32 | First of 2026 🤝 AWS User Group Porto

🚀 DevOps Braga is back — and this time, we brought friends.

Our first event of 2026 is getting a special upgrade: we're joining forces with AWS User Group Porto for a joint edition right here in Braga, hosted at Mercedes-Benz.IO.
Two communities. One night. Zero excuses to miss it.

📍 Venue: Mercedes-Benz.IO, Braga 📅 Date: April 16, 2026 ⏰ Doors open: 18:30

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### 🎙️ Agenda

18:30 — Check-in & Networking

19:00 — Welcome & Intros

Talk 1 — Honey, the Audience Broke My App Running in EKS: Reproduce & Fix Live with mirrord 👨‍💻
🎤 Jake Page – DevRel Engineer @ mirrord

You'll get a QR code. Most attendees generate normal traffic. A few… don't. Together, we'll watch a real app crash in a real Kubernetes staging environment — and then fix it live, without a single redeployment. No mock demos, no pre-recorded failures. Just raw debugging with `kubectl debug`, mirrord, and a room full of engineers who made it happen. Come prepared to break things.

Talk 2 — Spec-Driven AI Development with Kiro
🎤 Luiz Otávio Rodrigues – Product Solutions Architect @ Kantar

What does it take to turn AI into a reliable software developer? This talk explores Spec-Driven AI Development with Kiro, showing how clear, structured specs enable agents to build code incrementally, and produce maintainable results—avoiding the chaos of prompt-based development and bringing AI closer to real engineering practices.

Talk 3 — Shift AI: Real-World Patterns for AI-Augmented Incident Response
🎤 João Aires – Site Reliability Engineer at Mercedes-Benz.io

What does it take for an AI agent to investigate a production incident like an SRE? This talk looks at how harness engineering can turn agents into effective production investigators, helping teams triage faster, correlate signals across complex systems, reducing time to root cause from tens of minutes to just a few.

20:30+ — Catering, drinks & community networking 🍕🍺

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A huge thanks to Mercedes-Benz.IO for hosting, synvert xgeeks for the ongoing support, and to AWS User Group Porto for making this collaboration happen!

👉 Register now, bring your crew, and let's kick off the year the right way.

See you on the 16th!