Profocus

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.

This is an in-person meetup.

Modern developer experience on WildFly

Has your view of Enterprise Java evolved with the platform? In this session, James R. Perkins (Jakarta EE & Jakarta REST Co-Lead) dives into the modern developer experience on WildFly.

We will explore the latest in Jakarta EE and how WildFly has transformed its provisioning model.

You will learn how to build slim, cloud-ready runtimes using the WildFly Bootable JAR and Galleon, moving away from the traditional "full server" installation. Finally, we will look at a new approach to integration testing using wildfly-testing-tools, demonstrating how to easily spin up environments and test Jakarta REST endpoints with confidence.

Speaker: James Perkins is a Software Engineer at IBM and a longtime open-source contributor. He currently leads the RESTEasy project and helps drive the future of enterprise Java as a co-lead of Jakarta EE and Jakarta REST. A WildFly committer for over 15 years, he also leads several WildFly integration projects focused on simplifying the testing and development experience for modern Jakarta EE developers.

Event Agenda 5:30 PM: Assembling, Pizza 5:40 PM: "Modernizing WildFly" by James R. Perkins

This month's topic: Java 25 Features Deep Dive

Java 25 is set to release on September 16, and it's packed with exciting new features that take the platform to the next level. Join us for a focused deep dive into what’s new, what’s changed, and what it means for Java developers.

At our last meetup, Tyler Van Gorder gave us a high-level overview of what’s coming. This time, we’re going deeper—examining the key features, practical use cases, and the rationale behind some of the biggest updates in this release.

Speakers:

Tyler Van Gorder Biju Kunjummen