To share knowledge and expertise across teams, KLx created the K-Talk Communities. With daily activity on Microsoft Teams, these communities aim to gather KLxians around a specific tech topic, improving everyone’s skills. This month, the DevOps Community organised the first-ever on-site event, opening up an interactive discussion that brought together more than 80 participants in-person and online.

Led by Luís Dinis, Head of Architecture and DevOps, and Hugo Gomes, Senior Developer, the first K-Talk held at KLx started with the presentation of DevOps’ origin and pillars.

The speakers explained that DevOps approach means a continuous loop of improvement that is commonly based on six main practices and processes: continuous planning, collaborative development, continuous testing, continuous release and deployment, continuous monitoring, and collaborative customer feedback and optimisation.

This approach and culture help teams accelerate software delivery, improve code quality and build a culture of collaboration, eliminating the silos between software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops).

Soon after the introduction, the audience of developers, scrum masters and project managers started to ask questions about testing, automated testing, mainframe environments, code control, observability and tools. The goal was to share daily challenges and experiences while learning from each other. As Luís Dinis said during the session:

This is not a one-direction talk. I’m also learning with you. The only thing I know is to work in this culture: working collaboratively and sharing. For me, it’s all about ‘keep it simple and share it'.

The K-Talk Communities follow KLx investment in training and focus on its people. At the moment, there are four active communities: Agile, DevOps, Java, and Testing. Each will have its on-site events, further promoting a culture of exchange of knowledge and expertise across the company.