DevOps Research for Professionals: from Tools to Best Practices

DevOps Porto's mission is to build bridges, and what bridge needs more work than the one between companies and academia? With this in mind, upon the start of the next school year, we're going to the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto to see a set of lightning talks about DevOps-related research projects. Join us!

Structure

• DevOps Porto Intro (~5min)
• Filipe Correia's intro to the lightning set (7~10min)
• 5x Presentations (5x8min=40min)

Summary
“Scientific research” is often perceived as far from the everyday practice of professionals developing, shipping, and running software systems. Yet, this is hardly true for much research. This meetup will look at some examples of DevOps research projects. We will start with well-known examples such as DORA and look into some of our research at FEUP with results that professionals can use to significant effect, including novel tools and proven best practices.

Bios
Filipe Correia is a professor of Software Engineering at the University of Porto / FEUP and a researcher at INESC TEC. In the past, he played other roles, from software architect to coach, to developer.
His research interests tend to revolve around software design, architecture, and agility. Most recently they focus on microservice-based architectures and the highly maintainable and flexible systems they allow to create, and on applying liveness principles to activities of the software development lifecycle.

Carlos Albuquerque is a Master in Informatics Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He is especially fond of Software Engineering topics, such as design patterns, software architecture and cloud computing. His master thesis, titled Monitoring design patterns for cloud applications, formalized eleven monitoring and observability best practices as design patterns for the industry.

Tiago Maia is a Master in Software Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He is currently working for Farfetch and his main interests orbitate around cloud architectures and service meshes.

Paulo Marques is a Master in Informatics Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. His main interests are topics from Software Engineering, such as design patterns, software architecture and DevOps.

João Maduro is a Master in Informatics Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He has a deep interest in Cyber-Security and low-level technologies like the ones we can find in Operating Systems, which motivated him recently to research more about Docker Containers.

(Bio for David Reis to be added closer to the meetup).

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