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!
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Past year-in-review eps:
Community & Event Stuff
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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
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