#5 AWS UG Porto | CNP 🤝 DevOps P 🤝 AWS UG P – Platform & Engineering Mng

🚀 Start 2026 connected with the AWS Community in Porto!

#5 AWS UG Porto comes with an amazing partnership: AWS UG Porto 🤝 DevOps Porto 🤝 Cloud Native Porto! Our first meetup of the year kicks off 2026 with learning, networking, and good vibes—made possible with the support of our sponsor, Critical Manufacturing.

📍 Location: Critical Manufacturing – R. Eng. Frederico Ulrich 2650, 4470-605 Moreira da Maia
📅 Date: February 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 18:30

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### Agenda & Talks:

19:00 – Collaboration Hub - Cloud Development Environments powering Project Performance
🎙 Speakers:

• César Meira – Principal Software Engineer | R&D Area @ Critical Manufacturing
• Marco Silva – Principal Software Engineer | R&D Area @ Critical Manufacturing

📄 Description:
We're sharing our journey building Cloud Development Environments (DevBoxes) for multi-organizational collaboration in Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).
The Challenge: Managing development across Critical Manufacturing teams, partner developers, and customer developers — all with different hardware, security policies, and network constraints — while multiple MES projects run simultaneously (different factories, different versions). Onboarding new developers originally took 3–5 days.
Our Solution: Cloud-based DevBoxes with:

• Devcontainers for version isolation
• VS Code Server for browser-based development
• Unified OIDC authentication with automatic token rotation
• Observability-first architecture

The Impact: Developer onboarding dropped from 3–5 days to less than an hour. Teams can now transition between projects seamlessly, regardless of location or organizational boundaries.
Join us for a 30-minute deep dive into how we’re reducing onboarding time using DevContainers and remote development. We’ll cover motivations, key architecture decisions, a quick workflow/demo (from onboarding to PR), and challenges faced when keeping environments reliable and secure at scale.

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19:30 – Management is a Hard Job. That’s Why You Should Do It Like an Engineer
🎙 Speaker: William Mendes – DevOps Team Lead @ Coralogix
📄 Description:
When engineers move into management, they often feel like they’ve entered a chaotic, ambiguous world that no longer rewards their technical instincts. But what if the same principles that make systems reliable could also make teams successful?
In this talk, William explores how to manage like an engineer — designing human systems with the same rigor we apply to distributed ones. He’ll cover how to:

• Build autonomous, observable teams that don’t depend on micromanagement
• Apply system design thinking to managing up, down, and across
• Use metrics, feedback loops, and postmortems to improve trust and delivery
• Treat communication breakdowns like outages — measurable, fixable, and preventable

You’ll walk away with practical, battle-tested methods to make leadership feel less like chaos and more like production engineering, because people systems deserve the same reliability as your infrastructure.

💬 Come connect with the community, share ideas, and network at the offices of our sponsor of the night, Critical Manufacturing! Thanks to their support, we’re starting the year strong and bringing together Cloud Native, DevOps, and AWS enthusiasts for an evening of learning and fun.

See you there