BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RDATE:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260107T001352Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260122T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260122T173000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260107T001352Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260107T001352Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250482384 DESCRIPTION:Let’s kick off 2025 with another great evening of cloud-nativ e learning\, real-world talks\, and hallway conversations with Portland’ s platform-engineering community. \;\n \;\nDate: Thursday\, Januar y 22 \;\nTime: 5:30–7:30 PM \;\nLocation: Reperio Health\, 4784 SE 17th Ave Suite 120\, Portland\, OR \;\nRecording: Talks are typicall y recorded (opt-in by speakers) \;\n \;\nThe Observability Reset: 4 Foundational Principles for O11y That Scales by Noam Levy\, CTO at gro undcover \;\n \;\nLet’s face it\, collecting metrics\, logs\, and traces isn’t enough anymore. Most o11y stacks today are drowning in tele metry\, buried in cost overruns\, and spread so thin across tools that t hey’ve become more noise than signal. The classic SaaS-based model is cr acking. \;\n \;\nThis talk lays out 4 foundational principles for building a sustainable observability posture - that scale with infra and budget: \;\n \;\n* Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC): SaaS o11y is fina ncially unsustainable at scale. \;\n* Consolidate or Bust: DevEx suff ers when visibility is fragmented- consolidation isn’t a luxury - it’s a requirement. \;\n* Standardize Everything: Open protocols\, pluggabl e pipelines\, and vendor-neutral APIs are the only way forward\, or your o11y is a ticking liability. \;\n* Self-Reliance: You can’t rely on app-level instrumentation forever - eBPF enables scalable o11y without c omplexity \;\n \;\nThis session pulls from real-world deployments and lessons learned helping engineering teams scale visibility without c ompromise. \;\n \;\n### \;\n \;\n“What It’s Like to Learn Cl oud-Native Today — A Beginner’s Kubernetes Story” by Kelis Hightower \;\n \;\nWhen given the chance to explore cloud-native development\, I chose not to avoid the unfamiliar. With no prior Kubernetes experience and only a few weeks to learn\, I took a hands-on approach by building a small burnout-aware study tool to ground abstract concepts in somethin g tangible. \;\n \;\nThis talk shares what it’s like to learn clou d-native technologies today from a beginner’s perspective. Through exper imentation with containers\, Kubernetes\, and cloud services\, I’ll refl ect on the mental model shifts\, early misconceptions\, and “aha” moment s that emerged from learning by building. Rather than focusing on expert ise\, this would offer an honest look at what beginners actually take aw ay from a short\, modern introduction to cloud-native systems. \;\n&# 13\;\n## Agenda \;\n \;\n5:30–6:00 — Check-in\, snacks\, networkin g \;\n6:00–6:30 — The Observability Reset (Noam Levy) \;\n6:30–7:0 0 — Beginner’s Kubernetes Story (Kelis Hightower) \;\n7:00–7:30 — Net working (and games if anyone wants to bring some!) \;\n \;\n## Who Should Attend \;\n \;\nPlatform engineers\, SREs\, DevOps\, app/p latform teams\, OSS maintainers\, beginners learning cloud-native\, and anyone curious about observability\, Kubernetes\, modern infra\, or deve loper experience. \;\n \;\n## Sponsors \;\n \;\nVenue Sponso r — Reperio Health \;\nF&\;B Sponsor — groundcover \;\n\n\nTags : kubernetes\, containers\, cloud\, observability\, programming\n\nImpor ted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482384 URL:https://www.meetup.com/cloud-native-pdx/events/312652759 SUMMARY:January Cloud Native PDX Meetup: Observability\, Kubernetes\, and the Beginner’s Journey LOCATION:Reperio Health: 4784 SE 17th Ave Suite 120\, Portland OR 97202 U SA SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR