Devops Weekly, the first 200 issues

Ignite talk given at #devopsdays Gent, about how the #devopsweekly newsletter is created and some facts and figures from the first 4 years.

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1. Devops Weekly,
   The First 200 Issues
   Devopsdays, Ghent, 2014
   Gareth Rushgrove
   4 years of community news
   

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2. @garethr
   

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3. I missed the first
   Devopsdays. Dean Wilson
   told me about it. I went to
   Hamburg.
   Gareth Rushgrove
   

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4. 4 years later, 199 Issues,
   13,909 subscribers, all
   since November 2010
   Gareth Rushgrove
   

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5. 2532 links in total!
   530 of them to GitHub!
   from 1067 different hosts!
   about 13 links a week
   Gareth Rushgrove
   » find . -type f | grep html | grep -v archive | xargs lynx -dump -listonly | grep -v
   References | grep -v '^$' | sed -E 's/^.{6}//' | grep -v mailto | grep -v '^file' | grep -v
   brightbox | grep -v morethanseven | grep -v devopsweekly | grep -v rubyweekly | grep -v
   'heroku.com/$' | wc -l
   

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6. Instapaper everything.
   Twitter, IRC, emails.!
   Read everything on
   Sunday. Sent with
   MailChimp
   Gareth Rushgrove
   

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7. Gareth Rushgrove
   Issue 1
   

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8. “It’s safe to say Devops
   means different things to
   different people at this
   early stage”
   Gareth Rushgrove
   Gareth Rushgrove, 2010
   

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9. Gareth Rushgrove
   CAMS
   

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10. “Docker is the soon to be
    open sourced container
    runtime from the folks at
    dotcloud”
    Gareth Rushgrove
    Issue 115, 17th March 2013 Docker
    

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11. Gareth Rushgrove
    Devopsdays
    

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12. Gareth Rushgrove
    Government
    

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13. Most popular words
    Gareth Rushgrove
    

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14. Docker, Puppet, Chef,
    Jenkins, OSv
    Gareth Rushgrove
    Most popular tools
    

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15. Interesting, nice, good,
    useful, open
    Gareth Rushgrove
    Adjectives
    

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16. 2. John Alspaw www.kitchensoap.com!
    3. Patrick Debois jedi.be!
    3. Lindsey Holmwood holmwood.id.au!
    3. John Vincent blog.lusis.org!
    3. Jeff Sussna blog.ingineering.it!
    3. Damon Edwards dev2ops.org!
    4. Mathias Meyer paperplanes.de!
    4. Jason Dixon obfuscurity.com
    Gareth Rushgrove
    Nearly most posts
    

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17. 1. Ernest Mueller theagileadmin.com!
    1. R.I. Pienarr devco.net
    Gareth Rushgrove
    Most posts
    

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18. Devops is marketing.!
    This is a good thing.
    Gareth Rushgrove
    

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19. Gareth Rushgrove
    

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20. If all you remember is…!
    Never put the word
    weekly in the title of
    anything
    Gareth Rushgrove
    

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