The Quest for Engineering Excellence: Reliability, Observability & Testing

We're thrilled to invite you to the second Grafana & Friends Lisboa Meetup! Many thanks to our friends from Pipedrive, who have kindly offered this joint event 🫶

In this event we will explore several aspects of software delivery, mainly focused on building reliable and secure products in ever-growing software companies.

We will have three talks, followed by a networking session. Come and have some 🍕 🍺 while exchanging ideas and engaging with the community.

You can RSVP through this event or in Pipedrive's Meetup event.

This event will be held in English 🇬🇧

Talks & Speakers:
🔈 Talk 1 - Building Reliable Customer Experiences, The Pipedrive SRE Journey 🗺️

• Nelson Gomes - Senior Software Engineer - Pipedrive
• Pipedrive has an unique infrastructure, hundreds of thousands of customers, many more users, thousands of databases, serves billions of requests per month, executes billions of queries per month, a few years ago it was rare to have customers with a hundred users, now we have plenty of customers with hundreds of users. A tale about the challenges SRE team faced while handling such a massive infrastructure as the one Pipedrive has, solutions implemented and results obtained over the course of recent years and the impact SRE has made.

🔈 Talk 2 - Learnings and turnings of RBAC at Scale in Grafana 👀

• Eric Leijonmarck - Software Engineer - Grafana Labs
• This talk is going to talk about what "access" actually means in the world of identity and access management (IAM). We will share our experience with setting up RBAC in Grafana – the good, the bad, and why we had to rethink our approach. Other big players like Netflix and Google design their access models. Basically, it's a real-world look at our journey with access and some cool ideas we've picked up along the way.

🔈 Talk 3 - Handling Technical Challenges of Security Scanning in CI/CD 🧪

• Tiago Mendo - Director of Product Strategy - Snyk
• Have you ever tried to add a web application security scanner to a CI/CD pipeline? I intend to draw attention to some of the challenges that teams experience when trying to automate security tests. The objective is to make the audience aware of these problems so that they can solve them as soon as possible, increasing the success of the tests, and the adoption by the teams, which in the end, will lead to greater security for the organization.

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Agenda:
18:00 – 🚪 Doors open and initial networking
18:30 – 🔈 Talk 1 by Nelson Gomes, Senior Software Engineer at Pipedrive
19:00 – 🔈 Talk 2 by Eric Leijonmarck, Software Engineer at Grafana
19:30 – 🔈 Talk 3 by Tiago Mendo, Director of Product Strategy at Snyk
20:00 – 🍕 Food, drinks and more networking!

🏢 Location

The Meetup will happen in the Pipedrive Office at Saldanha!
Address: Av. Casal Ribeiro 16, 1000-013 Lisboa
The presentations will start promptly at 18:30.
The Meetup will be photographed and recorded, so it's important to let us know when you arrive if you don't want to be included.

We are looking forward to seeing you!