What we’re about
PDX JUG is a community of users of the Java programming language located in Portland, Oregon. We welcome speakers from diverse backgrounds who want to explain Java related technologies that our members can take back and use right away. We ask speakers who are in part describing their company's product to also give the audience information that they can use regardless of whether they use said product.
Various companies located in Portland sponsor our meetup by purchasing food, beverages, and/or providing meeting space. This sponsorship helps them increase brand recognition and attract high quality job applicants, but also helps establish Portland's tech scene as an active and diverse community of people who enjoy sharing knowledge about cutting edge technology.
Thank you to our sponsors, Oracle, New Relic, Zoom Care, and TekSystems!
Upcoming events (1)
See all- April PJUG Meetup!107 SE Washington St #700, Portland, OR
Hello Everyone!
We are back for an April meetup in person! We have secured a venue with our friends over at Graybox. If you have any web design/development or digital marketing needs, you can visit them at https://graybox.co/.
Graybox shares a building with Olympia Provisions. There are entrances on Stark Street and Washington Street. Use code #2505 at the callbox to get into the building. Follow signs to the tower, and take the elevator up to floor 7.
Call or text me at 503-887-9553 if you need help finding us!
Ian Downard is a community-driven full-stack software engineer at AWS, specializing in machine learning, data science, and data streaming. Renowned for publishing impactful AWS solutions, he empowers some of the world's largest ad-tech companies in privacy-safe advertising, computer vision, and natural language processing. With a tech toolkit spanning AWS, Python, Java, Spark, and Hadoop, Ian's influence extends beyond code — his blogs and open-source projects engage thousands monthly. Passionate about innovation and community, Ian embodies a dynamic approach to software development and technical advocacy.
A Cloud Practitioner's Guide to Self-Hosting Prebid Server
Have you ever wondered about the intricate world of online advertising and the technology behind it? Join us for a fascinating exploration into Prebid, a little-known yet powerful piece of advertising software that orchestrates auctions for the ad space that permeates our existence online. This technology, rooted as a community-led response to Google's dominance in the ad server field, emerged to provide better control, transparency, and higher revenues for publishers and advertisers.In this presentation, Ian will unravel the layers of Prebid, focusing on the Java version of Prebid Server for server-side header bidding. Ian will share his experiences planning production-grade deployments of Prebid Server in AWS, offering insights into strategies for containerization, autoscaling, load testing, instrumentation, networking, and security. The session will also delve into Prebid's use of Logback and explore how metrics and logs can be ETL'ed from ephemeral compute to persistent storage where publishers can analyze header bidding operations, record GDPR compliance, and more.
Whether you're interested in advertising technology, AWS architecture, or Java-based workloads, this presentation promises to deliver practical knowledge applicable to a wide range of scenarios.