2018 Year-End Wrap-Up
Posted on Friday, Dec 21, 2018
Show Notes
Favorite Episodes
Matty
- Let’s Be Careful out There with J. Paul Reed and Mary Thengvall
- Punk Rock DevOps with Jay Gordon
- Shouting at the DevOps with Corey Quinn
Bridget
Trevor
- Ignite 2018 Catch Up With Jessica Deen
- Ignite 2018 Catch Up With Ed Thomson
- Ignite 2018 Catch Up With Steven Murawski
- Ignite 2018 Catch Up With Donovan Brown
Numbers
- We passed 1,000,000 listens this year
- Most listened to episode of 2018 - Punk Rock DevOps with Jay Gordon
- Second most listened to episode of 2018 - Theatre Geeks Unite and Tech Over the World
What happened in 2018?
Bridget
- Travel. And plenty of it.
Matty
- Moved to SF and a bunch of personal stuff
- Visited 8 countries for work
- Spoke at like 20 events or something
- 5 new tattoos
Trevor
- Lot’s of time with Microsoft
- Launched a product (preview)
- Learning guitar! Formally, finally!
Podcast Recommendations
Bridget
Matty
Trevor
Joe
Guests
Bridget Kromhout
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if ‘cloud’ can be considered tangible). After 15 years as an operations engineer, she traded being on call for being on a plane. A frequent speaker and program committee member for tech conferences, she leads the devopsdays organization globally and the devops community at home in Minneapolis. She podcasts with Arrested DevOps, blogs at bridgetkromhout.com, and is active in a Twitterverse near you.
Trevor Hess
Trevor Hess is a Partner Solution Architect focusing on Microsoft at Chef Software, working with Microsoft to ensure that Chef is delighting customers and prospects on Windows and the many parts inside Azure!
Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.
Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.
Matt Stratton
Matt Stratton is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty, where he helps dev and ops teams advance the practice of their craft and become more operationally mature. He collaborates with PagerDuty customers and industry thought leaders in the broader DevOps community, and back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”.
Matt has over 20 years experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase and internet firms, including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including ChefConf, DevOpsDays, Interop, PINK, and others worldwide. Matt is the founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, as well as a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
He lives in the Chicagoland area and has three awesome kids - Henry, Joey, and Sophia, who he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phô in the world.
Hosts
Joe Laha
Joe Laha is an event technology professional and devopsdays Minneapolis organizer; he usually edits ADO instead of appearing on it. He enjoys cycling, homebrew, heavy metal guitar, and arguing about sci-fi TV of the 1990s.
