Name: Cloud Native PDX
Start: 2025-05-22T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-22T20:00:00-07:00
Location: ProFocus Office

Come out and join us to network with local cloud native peers.

**Agenda:**
**5:00pm to 5:30pm – Pizza and Networking!**

**5:45pm -** **Playing Super Mario made me a better Platform Engineer -** **Ramiro Berrelleza @ Okteto**

I grew up playing videogames. I still remember that morning where Super Mario, the og platformer, was waiting under the Christmas tree and I had to beat my brother to it. And now, I’m a grown up that talks all day about Platform Engineering. Coincidence? I think not!

In this talk, we’ll explore how Platformer games and Platform Engineering have a lot more in common than we think. Let’s breakdown some of Super Mario’s decades old best practices and see how we can use them to build better platforms that helps us beat our big bad boss: developer friction and cognitive load.

**6:15pm - Using Simulation to Understand Kubernetes - David Morrison @ Applied Computing Research Labs**

Do you ever wish you could understand what's going on in your Kubernetes cluster? Do you wish that you could safely make changes to your cluster without "experimenting in prod"? Have you ever tried to reason about cost savings or capacity planning and gotten stuck?

SimKube is an open-source tool to help you answer these questions. It is a record-and-replay simulation environment that lets you collect data about your production environment(s) and then replay them locally on your laptop to debug, experiment, and make predictions about your infrastructure. In this talk you'll learn why simulation is an important tool for understanding your infrastructure, and how you can start using SimKube in your own environments.

**6:45pm to 8:00pm – Networking and Board games!**

None of this would be possible without our amazing sponsors:

* Thanks to [ProFocus](https://www.profocustechnology.com/) for sponsoring the meetup space!
* Thank you to [Applied Computing Research Labs](https://appliedcomputing.io) for sponsoring the pizza and drinks too!

Want to speak at a future meetup? Fill out the form [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLdONn0cjC6EpVYdeHK_11ps52POttPaN3n9r-bJX2H-I1BA/viewform?usp=header)!

We can't wait to see you there! Until then, join us on the "cncf-pdx" Slack channel in the [CNCF Slack](https://communityinviter.com/apps/cloud-native/cncf).

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