Data Analytics Bootcamp

I have always dreamed about doing some contribution towards improving the gender balance in technology, which as you may know, is far from ideal.

Fortunately the opportunity arose, when Katrina Walker has invited me to teach the “Data Analytics”  bootcamp at CodeOp, an international code school for women and TGNC individuals.

Over the 6-month course, I will share my hands-on experience with the various stages of the data analysis pipeline, specifically on how to apply various technologies to ingest, model and visualize data insights.

Rather than focusing on a specific technology, I will leverage on the “best tool for the job, approach”, which is what I do when I want to analyse data. This means learning different tools, such as Python, R, SQL or QGIS, and often combine them together.

For me “data analytics” is like a journey, where we start with a high-level problem, translate it into data and algorithms, and finally extract a high-level idea. At the start and the end of journey, we should always be able to communicate with people that are not “data geeks” and this is one idea that I would like to pass in the course.

I will not add anything else, apart that I am really excited to get started!

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Docker for Programmers

In some ways, docker can be seen as the holy grail of DevOps: develop locally, ship everywhere.

Although it is still a relatively recent technology, docker’s adoption curve has been so steep that it has become almost a standard-de-facto in the software industry, for shipping software applications.

Companies such as CloudBees or Elastic, and Free and Open Source projects such as PostgreSQL or Debian, all make their applications available through the official repositories of docker hub, the largest public container repository, where you can find anything from a text parser to an operating system.

Are people really using docker in production? The answer is “yes”, and perhaps the best use case is Spotify, who is not only using it, but also contributing to its usage, by making available their client Java libraries.

As an earlier adopter, I consider myself as an enthusiast, although I already had some “oops” moments which made me question if I want to be always riding on the “crest of the wave” (specially on production). Overall, I think it is a fascinating technology and I would recommend every programmer to at least know it, and apply it even if just for the simplest use cases: quickly try a software application without “polluting” your local environment, and test your software in a “clean” environment which mimics the customer’s settings. A more serious use of docker could be facilitating a continuous deployment and testing pipeline, in a cloud platform.

I recently took the challenge of Kato global to start teaching a series of docker courses, specially aimed at programmers. The first course will be an introduction, and thus it will not require any prior knowledge of docker, and subsequent courses will build on this knowledge to take students one step further. The idea is to share my first-hand knowledge of using docker in production, by doing “hands-on” courses, for people working in the software industry, with real life challenges. The first course is schedule for September, in Lisbon.

BrainGym: Docker for Programmers Class 01

Monday, Sep 17, 2018, 7:00 PM

LED’s AND CHIPS – MILL
Calçada do Moinho de Vento, 14B, 1150-236 Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon, PT

6 KATOnians Attending

Docker has the power to turn infrastructure into code, and to turn developers into devops. This course is designed to teach developers how to take advantage of one of the most revolutionary technologies in recent years. Book your space here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/braingym-docker-for-programmers-2-day-course-tickets-48117883886 This is an 8 h…

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/braingym-docker-for-programmers-2-day-course-tickets-48117883886

If you are a developer, don’t miss this opportunity to extend your skills set as a DevOps, and find in which ways docker could make your life easier.

Hope to meet you in September!