API Hackday PDX brings developers together for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps and mashups with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on existing projects, start new ventures, and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with.

Free admission: Lunch, Dinner and post-hack beer included.

Hackers will also hear from some of the country's top API-focused companies on tips, tricks, and tools for building the next big app. At the end of the day, teams and/or individuals get a chance to present their work to a panel of judges and win kickass prizes.

Brought to you by Twilio, SendGrid, Urban Airship, Cloudability & Mashery

The year is slowly coming to a close and we are celebrating with an end of the year happy hour! You undoubetedly have a zillion holiday plans--but don't stress. You don't have to wear anything ugly and you definitely don't have to wrap any half hearted Secret Santa presents for this one. You just need to drop by, grab a pint or a mason jar and fill 'er up. So, before you head over to the mall for a last minute gift for your dog walker, grab a handful of tasty bites and a drink. (Or if you have to pick up the kids, you can drop by for a Kombucha. Safety first.)

Summer has left the building, football has taken center stage and now we're researching who has the best hay ride in town....All that's left is a cinnamon brown farmer tan, a trunk full of river rafts and too many tomatoes from the garden! Autumn is haunting us with those oh so familiar gray days and a halo of chilly drizzle. Drop by the office for a beer, 'buch and some snacks---word on the street the Dump Truck is hooking up a line of Cheeseburger dumplings...woot!

Cloudability has a new Sales guy, Andy, a new marketing addition, Arwa and we're in the throes of Trade Show Season---come blow off some steam with us!

Happy Halloween! The way the holiday falls this year, it seems as if everyone is doing their party tonight! With that in mind, how about you drop by our office beforehand for some autumn themed bites (Lamb's Table Catering) and a beer or two before you have to eat some fake blood? Sneak a peek at our Cloudability carved pumpkins, the winners and....ahem...the "good tryers"! ;) Drop in, see what's new, meet our new faces and come up for air after a long week!

And if you need to legitimize your daydream of actually wearing your Stormtrooper helmet to work all day, here is your excuse! Any and all costumes welcomed and encouraged, but not required. :)

In town for OSCON? Take timeout from the convention center to meetup + drinkup outside on the back deck at Momo's. PDX API Hour with your friends from SendGrid, Urban Airship, Twilio and Mashery lasts from 4:30pm-6:30pm, so you can make sure to get back before the State of the Onion at 7pm!

Getting there: From OSCON convention center, take (free as in beer) MAX rail system Red or Blue line heading west to the Galleria/10th Street station. Momo's is 1/2 block away!

Join PIE alum and longtime PIE mentor Mat Ellis, founder of Cloudability, for a conversation about his experience as a founder growing a startup from an idea to a successful exit, all of the lessons learned along the way, effectively engaging with and supporting the Portland startup community, and maybe just maybe, what's next.

According to The Oregonian, "Cloudability was among the most prominent of a generation of startups that emerged in Portland in the aftermath of the Great Recession. It helped clients such as BP, Sony and Siemens manage what they spent hosting their data in third-party data centers.

"Before its sale, Cloudability said it managed more than $9 billion in spending at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud."

RSVP / Submit questions: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/founder-story-mat-ellis-cloudability

Agenda:

6pm-6:30pm Arrive and mingle - Enjoy food and beverages

6:30pm-7:00pm "Intelligent decisions about cloud usage with Cloudability’s FinOps platform" presented by Patrick Zumar- Senior SE @ Cloudability

A new operating model for the cloud, called FinOps, is emerging that enables a shift — a combination of systems, best practices and culture — to increase an organization’s ability to understand cloud costs and make tradeoffs. In the same way that DevOps revolutionized development by breaking down silos and increasing agility, FinOps increases the business value of cloud by bringing together technology, business and finance professionals with a new set of processes.

FinOps has several fundamental building blocks we’ve seen high performing organizations put in place to gain competitive advantage. Patrick Zumar will share what we’ve learned from guiding hundreds of large and small cloud adopters on their journey to adopt FinOps.

7:00pm-7:30pm "Reducing Cost & Risk via Automation with Terraform on AWS" presented by Chris Dunlap- Sr. Solution Engineer @ HashiCorp

Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. This talk will focus on how customers can leverage Terraform to eliminate unnecessary cloud spend by 30-40% and reduce risk by baking guardrails and best practices into their automation.

7:30pm-8pm Networking

Datadog, PagerDuty, and Cloudability are headed to Portland on Wednesday, Feb 6 for an evening of tech talks, bites, and beers at Cloudability HQ. Learn how you can increase your visibility into critical systems, infect your organization with humane ops, and use Cloudability’s new integration with Datadog APM to balance performance and cost optimization.