Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025
as the organisers put it
Join Porto Tech Hub Conference on October 7th, 2025, at the iconic Alfândega do Porto for a day packed with innovation, inspiration, and connection.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| It AI-n't What You Think! | Venkat Subramaniam | 58m |
Claims that large models are accelerated inference not reasoning are backed by examples: asking for a Java stream to count occurrences produces usable code… | ||
| Lessons Learned on Building Data Aggregators: an engineering perspective | Xabier Burgos Gimeno | 33m |
Revolut onboards businesses by merging data from 7 now growing to ~11–12 external sources into a single internal model, achieving a record under six minutes… | ||
| Streaming Platforms in Event-Driven Systems: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Performance | Stephan Schiller, Leandro Damascena | 51m |
Architecture shows a concrete pipeline: DynamoDB CDC streams feed Kafka (MSK), Apache Flink reconstructs logical ordering and updates Aurora, and an… | ||
| The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Programming Language | Stefan Baumgartner | 49m |
Argues that Rust’s trait system is the practical win: traits as glue let code express relationships, hook into language features (Result + ? operator, Future… | ||
| Preventing, Diagnosing & Curing Bad Data | Shailvi Wakhlu | 44m |
Explains how bad data enters each stage of the data lifecycle and gives concrete fixes: detect pipeline logging gaps by comparing source volumes, catch… | ||
| Back to Basics: Crafting Quality Software in the Age of Complexity | Scott Gerring | 49m |
Keeps it concrete: a sample Quarkus Java microservice (sticker catalog) uses Spotless (Google Java format) and ErrorProne to auto-fix/style and catch trivial… | ||
| The Zen of Programming. A personal journey towards writing beautiful code | Sander Hoogendoorn | 55m |
Argues for shaving complexity: a single-stack of TypeScript/React/Node, a team of 13, and about 170 repos organized by domain; favors single-statement… | ||
| Welcome | Samuel Santos | 09m |
Porto Tech Hub marks its 10th anniversary with concrete logistics and numbers: 1,600 participants, 32 sponsors, invited universities and community hubs at the… | ||
| Closing Session | Samuel Santos | 11m |
New Porto Tech Association branding debuts and a volunteer team gets onstage for applause while a community raffle names winners: community raffle winners… | ||
| Get to know GDG Porto | Tiago Lucas, Gláucia Esppenchutz, Cristina Martins | 19m |
GDG Porto revives an eight‑year chapter that has run 30+ events and claims a 2.3k developer reach, with two 2025 meetups so far: a Google I/O watch party and a… | ||
| Women in Leadership Fireside Chat | Inês Silva | 30m |
Community founded in 2016 runs awards, mentorships and a conference and shifts focus to leadership since last year, promising a Saturday event on leadership… | ||
| Project Management Lean Coffee Light | Viviana Pinto, Eduardo Espinheira | 22m |
A facilitated Lean Coffee session for project managers where participants propose topics, use a 5-minute rapid networking vote to select the top topic, then… | ||
| How to build a tribe? Creating an International Community Across 10 Countries Through Events | Victoria Zhurbas | 23m |
Built an events-first network that runs 30+ meetups across 14 cities in two years and expands into 10 countries using WhatsApp/Telegram groups, volunteer local… | ||
| Multi-Tenant Frontend Architecture with Nuxt.js | Rui Posse | 22m |
A Nuxt monorepo powers multi-tenant SaaS using pnpm workspaces, Nuxt Layers, and a wrapped shadcn + CVA UI so tenants inherit base code but can override CVA… | ||
| Generative AI-Powered Automated Workload Evaluation with Python, CloudWatch, and Amazon Q | Gabriel Flávio Alves (he/him), Luiz Oliveira Rodrigues (he/him) | 28m |
A Python script using Boto3 + AWS Organizations and AWS CLI scans multi-account, multi-region environments with STS role assumption and multithreaded listing… | ||
| React Realism: Is there another alternative? | Luis von Rondow | 20m |
React wins for hiring and tooling—Next, Remix, React Router, countless libs—but useEffect pitfalls cause real failures (mid‑September Cloudflare outage traced… | ||
| Bugs That Made Headlines – and What They Reveal About How We Build Software | Paulo Oliveira | 22m |
Seven headline bugs: Boeing 737 MAX MCAS causes two crashes and 346 deaths after undocumented automation; Robinhood glitch lets $4,000 turn into $1,000,000 per… | ||
| AI is Eating the World, But Without AX, It’s Just Code | Marta Fernandez | 27m |
Claims a practical 7-Pillar AX Framework (now at v2.0) that treats trust as the primary UX metric and gives seven concrete pillars: human context… | ||
| You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See: Tales from the Observability Frontier | Paulo Dash | 26m |
Advocates build observability around OpenTelemetry and pragmatic rules: use tail sampling in the collector to keep all traces with 4xx/5xx or long spans and a… | ||
| Building Reliable and Resilient Workloads in Kubernetes | Ricardo Castro | 02h 01m |
Hands-on workshop builds a tiny Go web app into a Docker image, loads it into a kind cluster and runs it as a pod, then replaces the pod with a replica set and… | ||
| Building Bridges: Fostering Open Source Community and Collaboration in the WordPress Ecosystem | Ana Freitas, Carolina Osório Pinho | 17m |
WordPress powers about 40% of the web with a new site launched roughly every two minutes and a plugin/theme ecosystem plus WooCommerce powering commerce; the… | ||
| Golden Entanglements | Viviana Pinto, Eduardo Espinheira | 17m |
A Porto Tech Hub event features a demo session by Douro Toastmasters Club showing how Toastmasters trains communication and leadership. Participants tell true… | ||
| The Human Side of Modularity: Communicating Complexity with Clarity | Pedro Campos | 42m |
Argues that clear communication is the operational tool that makes modularity work, showing Bosch use of a Bosch heat pump control box module and reusable… | ||
| Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing | Nicolas Fränkel | 51m |
Shows a concrete e‑commerce demo that instruments a multi‑language service graph (Spring Boot/Kotlin catalog, Python pricing, Go and native JVM warehouses… | ||
| React: Internals and Advanced Performance Patterns | Matheus Albuquerque | 02h 50m |
Explains that React fibers are component stack frames and shows a working micro scheduler built with generator+Suspense scheduler that yields every few… | ||
| Vibe Coding for Production | Muntis Rudzitis | 49m |
Vibe coding speeds prototypes: feed a one‑page PRD into Lovable (Supabase + React stack) and get clickable UIs in a day, great for niche UIs but brittle as… | ||
| Modernizing and Optimizing Applications for the Cloud | Miguel Silva, Davi Garcia | 01h 14m |
Workshop shows a hands‑on path: port a dummy LLM chatbot (with a C++ shared library) to ARM64, recompile binaries, build multi‑arch container images and… | ||
| Designing Reality: How Immersive Technologies Are Shaping the Future of Human Experience | Maria Vilar | 47m |
Timeline shows hardware (Oculus Rift, MetaQuest 2/3, HTC Vive Pro, Apple Vision Pro) enabling software and game engines; Immersiv Studios builds a classroom VR… | ||
| Developing a clean architecture-inspired React application with MVVM | Marc Brehmer | 49m |
Shows a working React + TypeScript to‑do app that combines clean architecture with MVVM, implements view models as hook-based adapters, and wires dependencies… | ||
| The Angular Renaissance - Key New Features | Lance Finney | 51m |
Covers concrete changes in Angular 16–20: standalone components remove most NgModule files and change bootstrapping (default since v17), the new control‑flow… | ||
| Build Next-Generation Applications with Language Models using LangChain and Python | Karol Horosin | 41m |
Shows how to build LLM features with LangChain and Python using OpenAI-style function calling, tool decorators and agent loops, plus concrete tactics… | ||
| Reverse Engineering Cloud Native: Interoperability and Community | Katie Gamanji | 25m |
Kubernetes spawns interfaces that enable real interoperability: CNI (2017) for networking (examples: flannel, Calico, Selium), CRI (Kubernetes 1.5 alpha) to… | ||
| Can we turn Language into a Financial Product? | Gonçalo Pereira, Diogo Mónica | 56m |
Claims that money moves at the speed of data and that LLMs can turn language into deployable financial products are grounded in concrete work: stablecoins… | ||
| TanStack Router: Beyond the Basics | Joana Santos | 24m |
Live demo builds a mini-dashboard using TanStack React Router with file-based routing and dynamic routes like $cityId, integrating tRPC and TanStack Query for… | ||
| Going Full-Stack with Astro | Elian van Cutsem | 30m |
Shows Astro 5 features and concrete recipes: enable server rendering with pre-render: false for per-request HTML (works on Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify but not… | ||
| X-Raying Your Redis App: SDK Tuning with a Performance Engineer’s Eye | Elena Kolevska, Paulo Sousa | 51m |
Starts with a Flask app that issues 100+ Redis round trips per feed request and shows concrete fixes: use pipelining to collapse 100 RTTs into one — latency… | ||
| Replication as a First-Class Citizen: The Art of Global Resilience | Eduardo Pinto | 48m |
Argues that multi-region success depends on concrete tradeoffs: measure MTTD/MTTR (49s allows ~53 minutes downtime), avoid synchronous replication beyond ~100… | ||
| StructuredTaskScope And ScopedValue - Get The Most Out of Virtual Threads | Christian Woerz | 49m |
A live‑coded Spring Boot app uses Java 21 virtual threads plus preview features from Java 25 to replace blocking REST calls with concurrent subtasks, showing… | ||
| Designing Human-AI Experience | Christian Kuhn | 57m |
Presents six concrete HAX principles and seven anti-patterns and shows real outcomes: an AI-powered banking agent (voice cloned from a real employee) that… | ||
| Surviving Crypto Volatility: How to Build Resilient Infrastructure | Diogo Torres | 27m |
Uphold runs on Cloudflare fronting EKS with Aurora and ElastiCache and a single production cluster of ~100 namespaces, 265 services, 1,000 deployments, 3,000… | ||
| Securing LLM-Powered Applications: Overcoming Security and Privacy Challenges | Brian Vermeer | 53m |
Demo shows a rental app and a shopping assistant where uploaded terms and a crafted file overwrite canonical docs, then a vroom vroom trigger plus RAG… | ||
| LLMs, Meet Your Tools: The Magic of Model Context Protocol | Alex Shershebnev | 43m |
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a JSON‑RPC 2.0 based standard introduced Dec 2024 and already adopted by major providers, letting LLMs call JSON-RPC 2.0… | ||
| Orchestrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with CrewAI | Alessandro Romano | 51m |
Crew AI is a Python framework that wires agents, tasks, tools and crews so LLMs become orchestrated workers rather than one-off prompts; it is LLM-agnostic and… | ||
| Agentic AI: Build a Multi-Agent Application with CrewAI | Alessandro Romano | 01h 53m |
Hands-on build using the open‑source Python CrewAI library: a two‑agent prompt optimizer that outputs a single enhanced prompt for a target LLM, a content… | ||
| In Conversation With Samuel Santos | Samuel Santos | 03m |
A conversation with Porto Tech Hub Vice‑President Samuel Santos explaining what the Porto Tech Hub Conference is, what attendees can find at these events… | ||
| A Glimpse of the Porto Tech Hub Conference | Luís Silva | 02m |
A short preview highlights plans and expectations for the next Porto Tech Hub Conference and promotes a full interview with the organisation’s president, Luís… | ||
| The Best Moments Of Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | 02m | |
Conference marks a decade of growth with 10th anniversary celebration and membership rising from 3 to 40 companies, claiming the largest edition yet at ~1600… | ||
| Hear the voices from the crowd of the Porto Tech Hub Conference | Afonso Bernardino | 01m |
Venue and organization are praised as well run, and the attendee says they moved into the city not long ago to learn the local software development community… | ||
| Uncover the Story of Emergn at the Porto Tech Hub Conference | João Ferreira | 01m |
Emergn presents its team and experiences at Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025, focusing on insights from João Pedro Ferreira, Portugal Location Lead and Product… | ||
| First - Hand Experience | Cláudia Silva | 01m |
Attending for a third time and working on the IT team for 3 years brings a practical lens: dozens of booths mix legacy firms and startups, conference food and… | ||
| Bosch and Their Experience at Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | IHÊS PINHO | 02m |
Bosch describes its partnership with Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 and the measurable impact that collaboration had on the event. The piece highlights Bosch’s… | ||
| Learn More About PTH Conference | Marco Oliveira | 01m |
Uphold is using Porto Tech Hub to stop operating behind the curtain and actively hire across levels, reporting 10 years of operation and 200 people in Portugal… | ||
| An Inside Look With Anchorage Digital | FRANCIESCO AZEVEDO | 01m |
Anchorage Digital commits to invest in Porto and describes Porto as one of its most important engineer hubs, backing the conference as a track sponsor. Two… | ||
| Relive the highlights of Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | Maria Vilar | 01m |
Conference highlights focus on the rise of spatial computing and practical work coming out of immersive studios, with emphasis on real-world hardware and… | ||
| In conversation with Scott Gerring | Scott Gerring | 02m |
Describes a shift from ad hoc observability to continuous profiling that continuously records and measures performance in production and then feeds that data… | ||
| Inside the Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025: Interview | Brian Vermeer | 02m |
Second visit reports a packed venue of 1,600 people and a room full for an early security session that unexpectedly drew sustained Q A, prompting followups for… | ||
| Anchorage Digital | Track Sponsor | Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | Francisco Azevedo | 02m |
Anchorage Digital is the first and only crypto-native federally chartered bank in the United States, regulated by the OCC, and offers custody, staking… | ||
| Blip | Platinum Sponsor | Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | Mariana Magalhães | 01m |
Blip builds production-grade websites and mobile apps for the online sports industry, operates as part of the Flutter Entertainment Group, and staff more than… | ||
| Bosch | Track Sponsor | Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | WAHESSA ERANDÃO | 01m |
Bosch Portugal is presented as the track sponsor for Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025, highlighting Bosch as a global technology and services supplier active in… | ||
| Emergn | Track Sponsor | Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | João Ferreira | 02m |
Emergn claims it helps the world’s biggest brands bring products to market faster and more consistently by transforming businesses through defining your… | ||
| Uphold | Track Sponsor | Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | Marco Oliveira | 01m |
Uphold presents itself as a fintech that bets on onchain services as the future of finance and delivers a usable stack: Apollo platform powering payments… | ||
| Voices From Last Year | 03m | |
A highlights reel of attendee reactions that reports concrete details: the exhibition hall is packed all day, there are five concurrent sessions with technical… | ||
| Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions [Portugal] | Platinum Sponsor | Porto Tech Hub Conference 2025 | ERUHO SANTOS | 01m |
Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions [Portugal] explains that the team builds end to end digital products, moving from ideation to implementation and into… | ||
| nothing matches | ||