2015 in Review

We’ve made it through two years of ADO! It seems like only yesterday that we recorded our first year-end episode (which you can listen to at arresteddevops.com/27). And we’re back again to talk about what 2015 was for us, in the world of DevOps, and the world of ADO. Plus, Matt and Bridget wax nostalgic about cable management from when we managed data centers.

Events

ChefConf (all three hosts were speakers, and we actually were in the same place at the same time!)
DevOpsDays Rockies (Matt was a speaker)
ALM Forum (Matt gave his 5 love languages talk)
DevOpsDays Minneapolis (Bridget was an organizer, Matt did an ignite about @petechesbot)
ThatConference (Matt gave a talk)
DevOpsDays Detroit (Matt gave a couple talks)
Bridget spoke at about 23 events, including oscon, velocity NY and Amsterdam, Chef Conf, QCon, and more. And she’ll be giving a tutorial at oscon in May.
Bridget also went on tour with her team, which was pretty awesome.

Memorable Episodes

Dave Zwiebeck and Mike Rembetsy joined us to talk about Blamelessness (Matt points customers to this episode all the time)
Jefferey Snover and Jessica Devita came on the show to chat about Microsoft stuff
We talked Docker with James Turnbull
We finally got around to having Andrew Clay Shafer on the show
Talked about culture change with Bill Joy (Matt also sends customers to this episode all the time)
Discussed the basics of ITIL and how it can work (or not) with DevOps
Bridget enjoyed such moments as talking cognitive neuroscience with Courtney Nash & Lindsay Holmwood and talking about failure in distributed systems with Kyle Kingsbury.

ADO Updates

No new hosts added this year, but it’s the first full year being “staffed up”, whatever that means
We sometimes do eps without all the hosts! Which allows for a bit more scheduling flexibility
Redesigned the website! This means now if you find errata in the show notes, etc, you can go right ahead and send the fixes to us via pull requests at github.com/arresteddevops/ado-hugo
Stats!

14,361 visits in 2014
24,293 visits in 2015
76,655 listens in 2014
204,001 listens in 2015
Most listened to episode - the Docker episode (devops means docker, right?)
In 2014, averaged between 2,500 - 3,000 audio listens/downloads
In 2015, we now average between 5,000 and 7,000 downloads (double!)
Most watched YouTube video was the Microsoft episode

We’ve had a lot of awesome linkage this year, and we appreciate everyone who links to our epsiodes!

Links

The Chef Prince of Azure - Trevor’s talk at ChefConf 2015
Cooking Up Drama - Bridget’s talk at ChefConf 2015
DevLOLOps: How To Automate Your DevOps Hilarity - Matt’s talk at ChefConf 2015
Velocity 2016 Call for speakers
DevOps In The Machine - Matt’s DevOpsDays MSP talk about @petechesbot
That Conference (Summer Camp For Geeks)
Matt on Channel9 at That Conference
The Audacity to Podcast

Check Outs
Bridget

https://cloud.gov/ - if the us government can innovate, you can too.

Trevor

Fallout 4 was pretty cool

Matt

The Force Awakens. Period.
devopsconferences.org You can follow the list at @devopsconfs. This account tweets alerts about CFP dates.
Speaking of people who got promoted after being on the show, recommend Sasha Rosenbaum’s talk “Single Person of Failure” at Devopsdays SV

Podcast Recommendation

Software Defined Talk (they need a more memorable URL)