DevOps Porto #11: What do you want to learn for Christmas?

Welcome to our #11th meetup about DevOps and its culture, values and practices. This meetup will be hosted by our friends Bitmaker (https://www.wearebitmaker.com/).

It’s almost Christmas, the present year is ending, it’s time to celebrate what we learned in 2017 and to plan what we want to learn in 2018.

Our team mate, and invited speaker, Miguel Alho (@MytyMyky (https://twitter.com/MytyMyky)) will help us to define a learning plan for 2018. Continuous learning is essential to all knowledge workers, especially IT pros who are key stakeholders in an industry where tech is constantly changing and evolving. How that learning happens varies from person to person, and company to company. Work activities, personal lives and general firefighting often leave our learning tasks on the backlog of life. Also, unfortunately, not every company invests adequately in training, which only helps promote skill obsoletion.

In this talk, Miguel will remind you the importance of learning and skill development and look to challenge you to ramp up your learning habits in 2018. He'll offer some topics to look into next year and offer some tips to help you follow through with that effort that have helped him along his own career.

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Miguel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-alho-9982331/) is a full-time, 13-years-in-the-making, software engineer with a DevOps and Craftsmanship mindset. He currently works at FARO Technologies, in Gaia, and is part of the platform team that is bringing supportive services of the core products into the cloud. Previously, he worked mainly as a freelance consultant through his own company, but also worked as a school teacher, trainer and media producer.

He's a proponent of TDD as a development practice, very fond of microservices, and of automating as much as possible in every part of the product pipeline. Finding ways to augment individual and team learning experiences is a special interest of his. He hopes to someday bring some life back into his blog at miguelalho.pt (http://www.miguelalho.pt/).

Agenda:

• Welcome

• Ramp up your learning habits in 2018. The 2018 DevOps Porto Learning Challenge by Miguel Alho

• Networking break

• Open space forum

• Closing

We will have a great event with lots of interesting discussion topics. Join us!