#6 Cloud Native Porto – KCD Porto Warm Up Edition
We’re back — and this time, it’s a special one! Join us for the KCD Porto Warm Up Edition of Cloud Native Porto, as we gear up for Kubernetes Community Days Porto 2025 - Cloud Native Porto is a proud Community Partner and Visionary Ally
This edition will bring together speakers from Portugal and beyond, featuring insights on cloud-native architectures, observability, integration platforms, and more.
📅 Agenda
18:40 – Intro & Welcome 👋
Quick intro to kick off the evening and set the stage!
18:45 – 🌍 Introducing Cloud Native Valencia
🎙 Luiz Bernardo Levenhagen, Jade Lassery & Chad M. Crowell
Our friends from Cloud Native Valencia will join us remotely to share their story, what they’re building, and how their community is growing across Spain.
19:00 – 🔍 Getting Started with Observability in ETL on AWS
🎙 Ana Sofia Dias Gonçalves – Geek Girls Portugal / Critical Techworks
In this talk, Ana Sofia will cover practical starting points for implementing observability in ETL infrastructures on AWS — sharing tips and lessons learned from real-world experience.
19:30 – ⚙️ Integration Platforms – A Hybrid Multi-Cloud Integration Architecture with a GitOps Philosophy
🎙 José Flávio Saraiva – MC Digital
As we move toward hybrid multi-cloud environments, integration capabilities must evolve. José will explore how a GitOps-first mindset and reusable, product-oriented Integration Platforms can bring automation, observability, and DevSecOps practices together in a modern integration ecosystem.
20:00 – 21:00 – 🤝 Networking & Coffee Break ☕
Time to connect, chat, and exchange ideas with the community.
📍 Location
Kuehne + Nagel Porto IT Hub - Rua de Latino Coelho 142 · Porto
🗓️ Date: 29 October – Thursday, 18:40–21:00
👉 In-person only! Come meet the Cloud Native community face-to-face.
💡 About this Edition
This meetup is our warm-up for KCD Porto 2025, happening next 3 and 4 of November at Alfândega Congress Center. We’ll celebrate community, collaboration, and everything cloud native — just a small taste of what’s coming at the big event!
🎤 Want to speak at a future meetup?
We provide the stage — you bring the talk!
👉 Submit your proposal here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKIpo2gUiTgUz9GXdoQgtEwhT\_EZZHFsy7yz56tEAFTgmyZQ/viewform
💬Stay connected
Join the Cloud Native Porto Slack space via Cloud Native Community Slack - https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C088H34U0TF
👉 Secure your spot and register now! See you there
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6:30 PM WET
Check in
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6:40 PM WET
Welcome to Cloud Native Porto
in-person -
6:45 PM WET
Introducing Cloud Native Valencia
in-person🎙 Speaker: Chad M. Crowell, Jade Lassery, Luiz Bernardo Levenhagen A short intro to Cloud Native Valencia, who we are, what we do, and how you can be part of it.
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7:00 PM WET
Getting Started with Observability in ETL on AWS
in-person🎙 Speaker: Sofia Gonçalves In this talk, I’ll cover some starting points for implementing observability in ETL infrastructures on AWS. I’ll share helpful tips and what I’ve learned so far to achieve observability and support our day-to-day work.
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7:30 PM WET
Integration Platforms - A hybrid multi-cloud Integration architecture with a GitOps philosophy
in-person🎙 Speaker: José Flávio Saraiva As we evolve towards a hybrid multi-cloud architecture and adopt a GitOps philosophy, it becomes essential to transform the integration capabilities currently supported by legacy solutions. The proposed vision is the creation of modular, reusable, and product-oriented Integration Platforms, designed to consistently support the main integration patterns across distributed environments. These platforms will provide capabilities such as API management, event streaming, orchestration, file transfer, and integration with legacy systems, all operated in a declarative, version-controlled, and auditable way. The GitOps-first approach ensures automation, traceability, and continuous integration with DevSecOps practices and end-to-end observability. This presentation outlines the technical foundations of this transformation, how it aligns with modern architecture principles (EDA, API-first, self-service), and the initial building blocks that will shape this new integration ecosystem.
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8:00 PM WET
Snacks and Networking
in-person
