Cloud Native PDX July: An API for Linux and Learning OTTL

This July is all about infrastructure: Your systems infrastructure and your monitoring infrastructure.

Date: Thursday, July 16, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Location: ProFocus Technology, 10200 SW Eastridge St #100, Portland, OR 97225

Recording: Talks are typically recorded (opt-in by speakers)

A big thank you to New Relic for sponsoring food & beverage, and to ProFocus, our venue host.

First Presentation: An API for Linux (Speaker: Justin Garrison, Sidero Labs)

We treat infrastructure and application as code thanks to cloud providers and Kubernetes, but we're still SSHing to Linux machines and running shell scripts. What if Linux had an API? How would it change how we manage servers? What would it do, and how would we secure it? Talos Linux has been building an API for Linux to create a new way to manage your operating system. Let's see why an API is better than SSH and what parts don't

Second Presentation: Devs, Transform (Your Data) and Roll Out!: Learning and Leveraging OTTL (Speaker: Reese Lee, New Relic)

The OpenTelemetry Collector is OTel's power tool for ingesting and processing your app and infrastructure data, but there's even more you can do with your data before it reaches your backend! Learn how to start leveraging OTTL, or OpenTelemetry Transformation Language, to manage your data volume and quality. We'll explore the syntax basics and its underlying architecture within the Collector, where its strength really comes into play, when to use it (or not!), and more.