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