Title

a(SSH)ymmetric keys made easy

Abstract

Nowadays with the fastest pace that people are joining and leaving companies, every system administrator wants to be able to control and audit the accesses to his infrastructure. In this talk, we're going to have a brief explanation of how asymmetric keys works and it can be used to establish secure connections to instances shells at large scale

Speaker Name

Marcelo Almeida

• https://twitter.com/marcelo0almeida
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/msalmeida/
• https://github.com/marceloalmeida

Speaker BIO

Highly passionate about automation, monitoring, and reliability. Always looking forward to building ultra-scalable and highly reliable and resilient systems. And also love to ride bikes 🏍.

Speaker Company

Talkdesk

Title

KDD: Kubernetes Driven Development

Abstract

Kubernetes is becoming the standard in container orchestration but tooling is still lagging behind more mature environments. This talk aims to introduce tools like Telepresence to improve development by allowing easy interfacing with Kubernetes deployed services, Skaffold to automate builds and deploys and Helm to manage deploys.

Speaker Name

Ricardo Castro

• https://twitter.com/mccricardo
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-castro-9a039126
• https://github.com/mccricardo

Speaker BIO

Lead DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer at Uphold building highly performance, reliable and scalable systems. Strong believer in culture and teamwork. Open source passionate, taekwondo amateur and metal lover.

Speaker Company

Uphold

Title

A friendly introduction to word embeddings

Abstract

We will discuss the limitations of traditional textual data representation methods and explore how we can do better.
In the process, we will learn how to encode words into vectors and apply simple arithmetics to discover the secret identity of superheroes from the Marvel Universe and build a cross-language search engine to recommend questions from Quora.com.

Speaker Name

Arian Pasquali

Speaker BIO

Arian Pasquali is a researcher associated to University of Porto and the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Laboratory at INESC TEC - INESC Technology. He has MSc in Computer Science by the University of Porto with specialization in Data Mining and published research on topics like information retrieval, social media analytics, topic modeling, and summarization.
The early years of his career he spent building Enterprise Resource Planning software in Progress, VisualBasic, ActionScript, Objective-C, and Java before moving to the academy to focus on Text Mining.
Today his research interests involve machine learning applied to natural language processing, in particular, information retrieval. He also naively hopes to fix fake news.

Speaker Company

INESC TEC

Title

How to push data to Frontends with SSE

Abstract

Realtime in web applications is a challenge that developers face, and one hard decision is what technology/architecture to use. In this talk you will have an hands on building a Streaming API in NodeJS for your frontend. This is possible with SSE and HTTP2, and is so simple that you will question if you really need to pay Pusher or other service to push data.

Speaker Name

André Freitas
https://twitter.com/p_andrefreitas

Speaker BIO

André Freitas is from Madeira Island and is a Software Engineer at Talkdesk where he is building a Data Platform. In the last years, he founded and sold a company, worked for NDrive, collaborated with Google as Student Ambassador and was an active IEEE volunteer. Loves to code in Ruby, Python, Go and started learning Elixir in the last months.

Speaker Company

Talkdesk

Title

Row row row, your code, gently down the stream!

Abstract

Reactive is a buzz word. Everybody on Mobile wants to at least try to jump on that boat. But what does it really improve, and what are some crazy stuff you can do with it?
Let's go down the stream rowing with some RxJava (and Kotlin ofc!) and see where it takes us!

Speaker Name

Pedro Vicente

Speaker BIO

Pedro Vicente is an improver. “What kind of bs title is that?” - you probably were asking yourself. Well, he thrives by (trying - sometimes a lot - until he successfully) improves the processes around him either it being human or software related. He has been developing mobile apps since 2008ish. Currently he is a Mobile Software Craftsman at Mindera, created LoopGain and organizes stuff at GDG Porto.

Find him at:
https://twitter.com/neteinstein
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neteinstein/
https://github.com/neteinstein

Speaker Company

Mindera

Title

How is possible to push the HTML canvas to the browser limits?

Abstract

In this talk, I'm going to show you some strategies that you could use to render (smoothly) thousands of linked data points in an HTML canvas. This talk will be based on a graph use case, but most of the strategies could be applied to other scenarios.
Also in this talk, I'll show you how is possible to improve your web app performance by using efficient data structures and how it's possible to avoid heavy computations

Speaker Name

Victor Fernandes
https://twitter.com/victorfern91

Speaker BIO

My name is Victor Fernandes and after doing my first website at fourteen's I realized that I've found what I would like to do in my professional career. After taking the Electrical and Computer Engineering course I've worked as a Software Developer at MOG Technologies. And was here where I've found what I really like to do as Software Developer, the front-end of products. Now, I'm working at Feedzai where I'm helping to build products that help to make commerce safe.

Speaker Company

Feedzai

Title

To the infinity & beyond of a scrum team

Abstract

Most of teams who are using scrum struggle to evolve on its practices with time, they stall and their productivity doesn’t goes further. The purpose of the talk is to exploit how can we bring happiness to those teams and start to be not productive but hyperproductive. Let’s find out how using scrum patterns, the teams starts to find a way to go to its infinity & beyond!

Speaker Name

Pedro Almeida
https://twitter.com/pfsalmeida
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pfsalmeida/

Speaker BIO

Having the crazy motto “Changing the world every day”, Pedro is passionate about teams, its people and its interactions. Passionated about agility and engineering. Pedro has started working in Telecommunication area as a developer with amazing teams from Maisis, PT Inovação, and Nokia where he discovered Agility. And the last 4 years being an Agile Coach at Farfetch and now at Talkdesk - where he is building the most amazing product of the world for call centers!

Speaker Company

Talkdesk