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Marzee Labs celebrates 5 years this month

Marzee Labs celebrates 5 years this month

Let's celebrate!

It has been already five years that Marzee Labs was legally created. What a journey!

Marzee Labs was born as a freelancers collective back in 2012. Our co-founders, João Belchior, Nuno Veloso and Peter Vanhee were working together as freelancers and after getting a big project with one of our main clients they decided to create the company.

At the time, Nuno and Peter were living "la vida loca" in Barcelona and Marzee Labs was legally instituted in Spain. From Barcelona to the world, a lot has happened in those 5 years.

We increased the number of projects. We expanded frontiers working with new countries like the US and Japan. We hired a full-stack developer called Luís and when he decided to go for a new professional experience, we hired another Luís. João has found his copy - a web designer with mad frontend skills (our Pedro). Peter became a dad and moved to London, so we now have a virtual office there too. And after a lot of trials, we finally hired a girl, our business developer Ana.

We have learned so much during the past years and we have grown not just as a company but also as persons.

To celebrate our journey we decided to launch a series of monthly clippings with news from the team, articles we find useful and events our team will attend. We believe that inspiring each other is very important for us to evolve as a team and we want to share this with our partners, clients and friends.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

[Porto] Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - DevOps Porto #22: Build Automation in a DevOps way!

In this session Guilherme Ferreira, our invited speaker, will explore the Build as Code concept and will use Cake (http://cakebuild.net), a build automation solution based on C#, to help us.

[Porto] Thursday, November 29, 2018 - Cozinhando o WordPress para um site 'pro'

Um dos recursos mais atraentes do WordPress é sem dúvida a sua flexibilidade. Será que o podemos "cozinhar" de forma a o tornar num prato ainda mais apetecido?

[Lisbon] Thursday, November 29, 2018 - The Way Of The Microservices - Technical & Business Perspectives in Real Project

Listen to the stories and experiences behind a small team of developers and architects which set their goals on trying this new development architecture pattern, with our own José Carlos Rodrigues as one of the members, one of the very few members of the Oracle ACE family to live in Portugal.

[Porto] Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - Machine Learning Porto #1 - One-Shot Learning & Active Learning

We will have the pleasure of having Tiago Freitas and Pedro Costa who will be teaching us about One-Shot Learning using Siamese Networks and how to use Active Learning to help labeling your dataset.

[Porto] Friday, December 7, 2018 - Impactful Communication

In this session we Norberto Amaral will share the main characteristics of successful presentations along their four pillars – message, structure, feel and performance – and which behaviours should be avoided and which should be adopted.

[Porto] Friday, December 7, 2018 - OPO.js Meetup #8

The year is ending, but not without one last free Porto JavaScript Community meetup, supported by the ScaleUp Porto initiative.

[Lisbon] Saturday, December 8, 2018 - Code in the Dark + DevFest'18

Então achas que sabes Frontend? Desafiamos-te a lutar pelo troféu do Code in the Dark!

[Porto] Thursday, December 13, 2018 - Porto Codes

Porto Codes is a meetup for local and international programming enthusiasts. The talks are recorded and published with the presenters' consent as one of our goals is to provide programming resources to the community.

[Webinar] Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - Creating a world-class editing experience for Drupal 8

Creating and customizing the DX8 editing experience - Create the most powerful editing experience available in Drupal 8 and find out how you can now give content editors and marketers the tools to create amazing digital experiences for their customers.

NEWS FROM THE TEAM

![He is on fire](/images/processed/tickets_luis.jpg "He is on fire") He is on fire 🔥 Guess who already has tickets for another metal concert in 2019?

![Mascots birthday](/images/processed/Akira.jpg "Mascots birthday") ![Mascots birthday](/images/processed/Simba.jpg "Mascots birthday") **Happy Birthday, Simba and Akira!!** Our mascots also celebrate their birthday this month too!

![Halloween shenanigans](/images/processed/luis_halloween.jpg "Halloween shenanigans") We take Halloween very seriously around here - at least Luís does. Did you get scared? His colleagues did!

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