Cloud & DevOps Events in Porto

We're back home.

After heading north to Braga for our 6th edition, AWS User Group Porto is back in the city, and this time we're joining forces with DevOps Porto for a joint edition you don't want to miss.
Two communities, one evening, two practitioner talks covering what really matters when you're building and running modern systems: how to think clearly under pressure, and how to make AI a reliable partner in software development.

Hosted at Kuehne+Nagel, one of the great tech spaces in the city.
📍 Venue: Kuehne+Nagel, Porto 📅 Date: May 20, 2026 ⏰ Doors open: 18:30

18:30 Check-in & Networking

19:00 Welcome & Intros AWS User Group Porto, DevOps Porto & Partners
Talk 1 🎤 Clear Thinking Under Pressure: Practical Tools for Better Decisions
In high-pressure situations, such as incident response, debugging, or critical deployments, decision-making can become slower, narrower, and more error-prone, even for highly skilled professionals.
This session explores how pressure impacts cognitive performance in real technical contexts and, most importantly, how to counteract it. The focus is on practical, immediately applicable tools you can use during high-stakes situations, including:

• Simple pause protocols to reduce reactive decisions
• Decision checkpoints to avoid common cognitive traps
• Techniques to reduce cognitive load during incidents
• Clear rules to improve judgment under pressure

You'll leave with concrete strategies to think more clearly, reduce errors, and make better decisions when it matters most.
Speaker: Teresa Limpo

Talk 2 🎤 Spec-Driven AI Development with Kiro
What does it take to turn AI into a reliable software developer? This talk explores Spec-Driven AI Development with Kiro, showing how clear, structured specs enable agents to build code incrementally, and produce maintainable results, avoiding the chaos of prompt-based development and bringing AI closer to real engineering practices.
Speaker: Luiz Otávio Rodrigues, Product Solutions Architect @ Kantar
20:30+ Catering, drinks & community networking 🍕🍺

A huge thank you to Kuehne+Nagel for opening their doors, synvert xgeeks for the continuous support, and to DevOps Porto for joining us on this one!

👉 Spot secured = future self grateful. Register now!

See you in Porto on the 20th! 🚀

Welcome to our meetup where we explore and share DevOps values, practices, and culture.
This time we’re joining forces with our friends from AWS UG Porto.

Talk 1
Clear Thinking Under Pressure: Practical Tools for Better Decisions

Summary
In high-pressure situations—such as incident response, debugging, or critical deployments—decision-making can become slower, narrower, and more error-prone, even for highly skilled professionals.
This session explores how pressure impacts cognitive performance in real technical contexts and, most importantly, how to counteract it. The focus is on practical, immediately applicable tools that can be used during high-stakes situations, including:
- Simple pause protocols to reduce reactive decisions,
- Decision checkpoints to avoid common cognitive traps,
- Techniques to reduce cognitive load during incidents,
- Clear rules to improve judgment under pressure.
Participants will leave with concrete strategies to think more clearly, reduce errors, and make better decisions when it matters most.

Speaker

• Teresa Limpo: PhD Psychologist, Business Consultant and Scientific & Professional Mentor at Teresa Limpo Psykhé

Teresa began her journey in scientific research in 2006. Four years later, she became a psychologist, and in 2014, she completed her PhD in Psychology. Teresa served as a faculty member at the University of Porto from 2018 to 2025. After 20 years in academia, she has decided to bring her expertise into practice to enhance the growth of individuals and organisations—combining rigour, humanity, and direction.

Talk 2
Spec-Driven AI Development with Kiro

Summary
What does it take to turn AI into a reliable software developer? This talk explores Spec-Driven AI Development with Kiro, showing how clear, structured specs enable agents to build code incrementally, and produce maintainable results—avoiding the chaos of prompt-based development and bringing AI closer to real engineering practices.

Speaker

• Luiz Otávio: Product Solutions Architect at Kantar

Luiz has more than 30 years' experience primarily in infrastructure solutions, with a broad knowledge in networks, storage, servers, security and operational systems. One great part of his job was working with companies that provided a wide range of services to customers, he worked integrating all elements above to deliver services aligned with IT and business necessities. All of this was made to several companies around the world.

Agenda

• 18:30 - 18:45 Opening
• 18:45 - 19:30 Clear Thinking Under Pressure: Practical Tools for Better Decisions by Teresa Limpo
• 19:30 - 20:15 Spec-Driven AI Development with Kiro by Luiz Otávio
• 20:15 - 20:45 Networking

Location
Kuehne + Nagel Porto IT Hub
R. de Latino Coelho 142, 3rd floor, 4000-039 Porto, Portugal

Where to find us
Web: devopsporto.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/devopsporto
X: x.com/DevOpsPorto
Slack: devopsporto.slack.com

Calls
Organizers: tinyurl.com/callfororg
Proposals: tinyurl.com/callforprop

DevOps na Praia: Edição de Maio/2026 - Escalando Fronteiras e Performance! 🌊

O sol está a brilhar e o DevOps na Praia está de volta para mais uma edição imperdível! No dia 21 de maio de 2026, voltamos a reunir a comunidade em Matosinhos para uma noite de partilha técnica profunda, networking de qualidade e aquela energia descontraída que só o nosso meetup oferece.
Desta vez, mergulhamos no universo de Platform Engineering com dois especialistas da Wellhub, trazendo casos reais de escala global, automação de infraestrutura e otimização inteligente de recursos no Kubernetes.
Se te interessas por Service Mesh, conectividade Multi-cluster, eficiência de custos ou simplesmente queres saber como as grandes plataformas operam nos bastidores, este evento é para ti!

Um agradecimento especial à nossa parceira e patrocinadora VML por continuar a apoiar o crescimento da nossa comunidade. 🙌

DevOps na Praia — onde a tecnologia encontra o espírito da praia! 🏖

• Local: VML Office, Ed. Transparente – Matosinhos
• Data: 21 de Maio de 2026
• Hora: 18:30
• Nota: Este é um meetup presencial.

18:30 – Check-in & Welcome 👋

19:00 – 🎤 "Pods mais rápidos, custos ocultos: Kube Startup CPU Boost como feature de plataforma"

• Idioma: Português
• Speaker: Lucas Anjos – Platform Engineer @ Wellhub

Muitos já viram isso: uma aplicação JVM no Kubernetes consumindo vários cores durante a inicialização e depois ficando idle quando finalmente atinge seu estado Ready (se atinge). O desenvolvedor tenta resolver aumentando CPU requests/limits dos pods de forma agressiva e o resultado é um pod que passa a maior parte do tempo com CPU alocado sem fazer nada. Nessa talk, vamos analisar como o Kube Startup CPU Boost ataca esse problema com over-provisioning temporário de CPU, explorando os trade-offs em rightsizing de infraestrutura, confiabilidade de plataforma e sua interação (e concorrência) com outros autoscalers.

19:30 – 🎤 "Do 0 à Produção: Uma jornada com Istio Multi-cluster Multi-Primary em Redes Flat"

• Idioma: Português
• Speaker: Guilherme Bravi – Platform Engineer @ Wellhub

Nesta sessão, Guilherme apresenta a implementação de uma malha Istio Multi-Primary sobre uma Single Network (Rede Flat) em escala global. O foco é a eliminação de East-West Gateways para simplificar o plano de dados e viabilizar um Service Discovery nativo entre regiões.
Ele detalhará como o uso de IPv6 e AWS VPC CNI facilitou essa conectividade direta, enquanto o AWS Private CA (PCA) garantiu a confiança mútua (mTLS) entre clusters. A automação da infraestrutura é sustentada pelo Crossplane e pela orquestração do Karmada, com destaque para o Wellsync Controller — uma solução customizada para sincronizar recursos locais e garantir a consistência de configurações em toda a frota (fleet).

20:00 – Networking, Snacks & Drinks 🍻

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DevOps conference in Porto, Portugal