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2017 in Review
Episode 100

2017 in Review

Matt, Trevor, Bridget, and Joe discuss 2017.

Arrested DevOps · Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, Bridget Kromhout, and Joe Laha

January 8, 2018Explicit

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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!

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