2020 Year-End Wrap-Up
Posted on Friday, Dec 18, 2020
Show Notes
Favorite Episodes
Matty
Trevor
Jessica
Bridget
Jeff
What happened in 2020?
Trevor
- A year of PM land
- Streaming fun with Shuffleboard (and a little DevOps). Check out the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Shufflinsanity, or look at some shuff.io livestreams.
- Virtual conferencing!
- A doggo (Friday)
Jessica
- Jessitron, LLC
- Cut my hair
- Last Keynote Codebeam March 7&8 last talk with Avdi
- systemsthinking.dev
Bridget
- I planned to travel less. Sorry for causing (points to everything).
- Fewer events but playing with the pre-record format
Jeff
- Got a new gaming table
- Wrote a book! Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions
Matty
- Last in-person conference was DevOpsDays NYC
- New job at Red Hat!
- DevOps Party Games
- Took over from Bridget as global chair for devopsdays
- Did “less” speaking this year (“only” 9-10 talks)
90s Sci-Fi Roundup
Joe’s Babylon 5 talk at DevOpsDays Madison 2016
Joe’s Top Babylon 5 Episodes
- Season 1, ep 3: Born to the Purple, Great Londo episode.
- Season 2, ep 20: The Long, Twilight Struggle. End of the Narn/Centauri War. One of the best FX shots of the whole show. One of the best Londo/G’Kar eps.
- Season 3, ep 20: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place. More good Londo/G’Kar.
- Season 4, ep 14: Moments of Transition. End of the Minbari Civil War. Good Delenn ep, better Neroon ep.
- Season 5, ep 8 Day of the Dead. Duh.
Joe’s Worst Babylon 5 Episodes
- Season 1 ep 10: Believers. Basically Christian Scientists in space. I could have chosen TKO (Bloodsport in Spaaace!) or Infection (“He took a pretty bad hit!”). Believers is super-preachy and it has the pedigree of being written by David Gerrold (wrote the tribbles ep of original recipe Trek)
- Season 2 ep 18: Confessions and Lamentations. A deadly plague threatens the Markab. Another weak Dr. Franklin ep. Also, a deadly plague, read the room B5!
- Season 3 ep 18: Walkabout. Hey, look! It’s Wallace’s mom from Veronica Mars but oh, god, the songs!
- Season 4 ep 10 Racing Mars. Marcus AND Dr. Franklin together on Mars! Nuts and gum, together at last. Honorable mention: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars.
- Season 5 ep 11: Phoenix Rising. Fucking telegoths.
Guests
Bridget Kromhout
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on the open source Kubernetes ecosystem. 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 Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”.
Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsDays, Interop, PINK, and others worldwide. Matt is the founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, as well as the global co-chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phở in the world.
Jessica Kerr
Jessitron is a consultant as Jessitron, LLC. You can hire her to symmathesize with your team. She is into resilience engineering, domain-driven design, and of course DevOps – all the systems-thinky things. She works remotely from St. Louis, MO, where she raises two daughters. Find her also on >Code, and at conferences around the world.
Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith has been in the technology industry for over 20 years, oscillating between management and individual contributor. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Production Operations for Centro, an advertising software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Jeff is passionate about DevOps transformations in organizations large and small, with a particular interest in the psychological aspects of problems in companies. He lives in Chicago with his wife Stephanie and their two kids Ella and Xander.
Jeff is currently writing a book Operational Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions with Manning publishing due out in Spring of 2020, but available now via their early access program. He’s also the chapter president of Blacks in Technology where he strives to introduce the community to the different opportunities in the technology field.
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.
