Arrested DevOps

2017 in Review

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Matt, Trevor, Bridget, and Joe discuss 2017.

What were some of your favorite episodes?
  • Bridget: the GOTO Chicago eps were fun! And I love the 1-1 fireside chats.
  • Trevor: I enjoyed the Twitter banter around getting the live call show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren going, sad I had to miss it! There’s also a ChefConf episode sitting on my Surface that I just found the charger for!
  • Matt: The Live call in show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Also the recent fireside chat with J. Paul Reed. And the crazy-go-nuts overload show of Windows Stuff.
  • Joe: Live eps were easier to edit.
    • Let’s talk numbers
    Website
    • 22K visitors to the website (up from 16K visitors in 2016)
    • Little less than half of traffic comes from search
    • Twitter still accounts for about 6% of all traffic
      • Episodes
      • 263,558 listens in 2017 (232,200 listens in 2016; 204,001 listens in 2015)
      • Most listened-to episode in 2017 (and also the most-watched YouTube Video!) was Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/)
        • What happened with you in 2017?
        Matt
        • Got a new job (recently). Now DevOps Evangelist with PagerDuty
        • Spoke at DevOpsDays Denver. Went to DevOpsDays Hartford and MSP and Madison.
        • Pulled off an acceptable DevOpsDays Chicago
          • Bridget
          • New job in September! Microsoft dev advocate
          • Kept scaling devopsdays up (51 events on 6 continents)
          • Way less conference speaking; was on more conference program committees
            • Trevor
            • Wrapped up first year at Chef!
            • Spoke at DevOpsDays Dallas
            • Moved back to Chicago!
              • Joe
              • Iceland!
              • Tesla roadtrip!
                • Referenced in this ep:

                • Old Geeks Yell at Cloud

                • Fireside chat with Bryan Cantrill

                • The Oatmeal on Tesla

                • Clued In escape rooms

                • GoTime podcast (AMA episode mostly about BBQ)

                • ADO ep 1

                • Mary Thengvall book

                • Bridget’s “getting into devops” blog post

                  Past year-in-review eps:

                  • 2016

                  • 2015

                  • 2014

                    Community & Event Stuff

                    If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf

                    Upcoming conferences
                    Open CFPs
                    • lots of DevOpsDays
                    • SREcon - March 27-29 2018 - CFP closes Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 11:59 pm PST
                    • ScaleConf Colombia - April 27 - 28th 2018 - CFP closes Jan 15
                    • Velocity San Jose - June 12-14 2018 - CFP closes Jan 17
                    • ChefConf 2018 - May 23-26, CFP open now, closes Jan 10th

                      • Discount codes: ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf

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                      Arrested DevOpsBy Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, Jessica Kerr, and Bridget Kromhout
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