The Quest for Engineering Excellence: Reimagining production releases in 2025

Event:

We would like to invite you to the first Meetup of 2025!

In this event, we will have another episode on the ongoing quest that different companies have taken in order to achieve Engineering Excellence. Different companies follow different paths, there isn't a single way to reach it, and no silver bullet.

In this episode, we will dive into the several aspects of software delivery mainly focused on the benefits of platform standardization, streamline of developer workflows with GitOps and automated testing, achieving higher quality and confidence in software delivery and new standards for softwares releases in ever-growing software companies.

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

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Talks & Speakers:

🔈 Talk 1 - Dead to Jenkins, Long live to Mona. The tale of a CICD migration

• Stéphane Moser - Senior DevOps Engineer - Pipedrive
• Tired of wrestling with Jenkins upgrades and cryptic Groovy scripts? We'll share our journey of escaping the Jenkins jungle and embracing the sleek, modern world of GH Actions. Discover how we streamlined our pipelines using JavaScript, improved developer velocity with a vast community-based code, and adopted a GitOps approach—where our clusters now pull changes. Plus, see how we created a unified UI for all our organization's builds and deployments, right within our developer portal. Prepare for a paradigm shift that will revolutionize your deployments!

🔈 Talk 2 - Beyond code: How Platform Engineering is revolutionising the developer experience in 2025 🪄

• Tiago Barbosa, Head of Developer Relations - [Rely.io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/relyio/)
• Learn how internal development portals are revolutionizing software development by providing a centralized, self-service platform that simplifies workflows, reduces complexity, and dramatically improves team productivity. Don’t miss the exclusive reveal at the end on how Agentic workflows will transform your development processes.

🔈 Talk 3 - Testing at Scale: How We Run Over 500 Thousand Tests Every Day 🆙

• Miguel Duarte, Senior Software Engineer - SingleStore
• Building a database means there’s no room for mistakes. At SingleStore, we take testing very seriously, as even the smallest data loss can damage the reputation of a product like this. In this talk, Miguel Duarte, a Senior Software Engineer at SingleStore, will explain how we manage our own private cloud to handle over 500 thousand tests a day and ensure our database performs flawlessly.

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Agenda:

18:00 – 🚪 Doors open and initial networking
18:30 – 🔈 Talk 1 by Stéphane Moser, Senior Software Engineer at Pipedrive
19:00 – 🔈 Talk 2 by Tiago Barbosa, Head Of Developer Relations at Rely.io
19:30 – 🔈 Talk 3 by Miguel Duarte, Senior Software Engineer at SingleStore
20:00 – 🍕 Food, drinks and more networking!

Where:

The Meetup will happen in the Pipedrive Office at Saldanha!

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 don't want to be included.

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About us:

At Pipedrive we love building great products while having fun doing it!
It all started with a five-person team to a truly international company, representing more than 50 nationalities with ten offices distributed across Europe and the US.
We work daily to be the #1 sales-first CRM and intelligent revenue management platform for small businesses in the world.
Today, Pipedrive is trusted by over 100,000 companies and used in 179 countries.
We have been learning a lot along the way and we started Pipedrive Talks Lisbon to contribute to the community by sharing our learnings and also some of our pitfalls, our unique ways of working, technologies, and systems that fuel Pipedrive daily.
Let's make this journey together. We grow by sharing and learning from each other.
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