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Arrested DevOps

2015 in review

31 december 2015
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Matty, Trevor and Bridget record the second year-end episode together, with Trevor and Bridget in the same room in Minneapolis, and go through conferences, favorite episodes, site stats and what they saw in the wider DevOps world. Trevor opens by noting they've made it through two years, slightly over. The cold open is Bridget: "Pink-haired thought leadership as a service is valuable enough for Pivotal to pay me to do it."

Delight and Animated GIFs

Matty spoke at ChefConf, the first time all three hosts were in the same place and all spoke, with a talk on automating animated GIFs in HipChat. Bridget's case for it is that people dread swapping a heavyweight process for a new terrible one, and animated GIFs in a chat app make them realize "I could actually have fun with this DevOps thing." Matty ties it to Adam Jacob's ChefConf keynote on bringing delight: the one feature Adam required in Chef Delivery was support for animated GIFs, and the system profiler being called Ohai adds no technical value but makes people grin. Matty shows embedded YouTube videos and GIFs in Chef Delivery demos, and even the stodgiest enterprise loves them.

A Year on the Conference Circuit

Matty went to DevOpsDays Rockies, which was held in a data center, and the talk of tours prompts Bridget and Matty to trade data center stories: Bridget recalls a designed-as versus built-as floor plan mismatch that meant moving two racks days before a $5 million supercomputer delivery, and Matty still likes pretty cable management. Matty also spoke at ALM Forum, enjoying non-DevOps audiences because "you don't have to be super insightful," and gave The 5 Love Languages of DevOps, which works well at agile and app dev events. Bridget's counter is that many people attend Velocity for the first time and gravitate to the culture track, with the CFP deadline on January 11th.

The best story is DevOpsDays Minneapolis. Bridget pushed Matty to submit an Ignite talk about Pete Chessbot, a Markov bot that mangles Pete Cheslock's tweets, and Matty confirms, on the record, to be the bot's owner. To keep the talk funny, Matty asked Pete to fill the slides with bot tweets and send them to Bridget so Matty wouldn't see them. The first slide appeared with no warning, so the first words of the talk were "fucking Cheslock." Pete insisted no instructions had arrived, and Matty pulled up the sent email from the front row. The email said: "dude, how do you DevOps while you're illiterate?" Bridget thought the real surprise made it better.

Matty also praises That Conference in the Wisconsin Dells, "summer camp for geeks," where 60 to 70 people came to a talk about Chef at a .NET-focused audience and Channel 9 interviewed Matty. Trevor made a speaking debut at ChefConf with the Fresh Prince of Azure rap, which now serves as an icebreaker with every client, then spoke at DevOpsDays Chicago on contributing to open source and at Days of .NET about Chef, twice, after a coworker took a job at Microsoft. Bridget spoke at about 23 events, including OSCON, Velocity New York and Amsterdam, ChefConf and KubeCon, and co-presented with former and current coworkers, preferring the conversational format, which "feels more like a podcast."

Jobs After the Show

A running joke is that being on the show gets people new jobs or promotions, with Trevor, Bridget, Katherine Daniels and Jill Jablinski cited, and a listener tweets that getting mentioned got them a new job too. Matty's proposed fee for a promotion is a high five, a tweet or an iTunes review. Bridget notes that being a regular host helped with moving to Pivotal, and that Kyle Kingsbury opened a consultancy around Jepsen after the distributed systems episode.

Memorable Episodes

The hosts call out the Microsoft episode with Jeffrey Snover and Jessica DeVita, which became the most viewed YouTube video, the Docker episode with James Turnbull, which was the most listened to, finally landing Andrew Clay Shafer during a day and a half in Minneapolis, and an episode with John Willis that hadn't been released yet. Bridget's highlight is the cognitive neuroscience episode with Courtney Nash and Lindsay Holmwood, and Matty discovered that episodes without Matty were fine, after resisting them at first. Matty says "I don't think we had any turkeys this year." Bridget and Trevor also credit Matty for the editing, the site overhaul and the feed wrangling.

The site is now statically generated from a GitHub repository, so pull requests with fixes are welcome, and Matty fixed a title typo pointed out weeks late. Visits went from 14,000 to 24,000, listens from 76,000 to 204,000, and per-episode averages doubled to between 5,000 and 7,000.

What They Saw in DevOps

Bridget now visits customers, including government types working hard to change, and some who want DevOps "without changing anything." Matty says it's the year the C-levels get it, as part of strategic planning, but organizations balk at "the right hard thing." Trevor sees Windows shops adopting test-driven infrastructure. Matty fields the question "what's your container story?" from people with no plan, comparing it to asking "what's your computer strategy?" A manager at Bridget's Agile Day open space said a VP had decided the company was doing microservices and asked about the downsides.

Matty says enterprise DevOps as a separate category faded in 2015, credit to DevOps Enterprise Summit, and reminds everyone that under 15 percent of organizations do configuration management, so the echo chamber is "1% of 1% of 1% of IT in the whole world." Bridget adds that "there is no such thing as greenfield," since what ships yesterday is legacy today, and that a vendor's answer should be "I don't care which one you use, just use something." Matty says the real question is how to do the thing and not which tool, and that the best thing about the year is companies like Target talking about what's behind their firewall. Bridget describes Target's dojo, where groups get a 30-day challenge and come back to spread the change: "It's practice."

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

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

Check Outs

Bridget

Trevor

  • Fallout 4 was pretty cool

Matt

Podcast Recommendation

Software Defined Talk (they need a more memorable URL)

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