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Cheers to 10 years of the Red Hat Developer blog

January 23, 2023
Mike Guerette
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    I was excited and amazed to learn that the Red Hat Developer blog is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month. It's come so far, but let me share how it all started.

    The prequel

    In 2012, there were plenty of Red Hat-sponsored blogs for community projects, but nothing that covered our products from an application development perspective. So management came to me and said, “Hey Mike, we need a developer blog. We know you've never done one before, but have at it.”

    Chapter 1

    The good news was that I knew what a blog was (and could even spell it). Fortunately, Kimberly Craven had just joined Red Hat and was able to get the new blog set up. From there, the challenge was finding good content—and a lot of it.

    Around the same time, Langdon White (who's now a Boston University lecturer) joined Red Hat and started writing articles while I recruited 28 other Red Hatters to contribute. The very first article was published on January 21, 2013, followed by another 90 or so that first year.

    I'd like to say it was my great selling skills that persuaded so many people to write a blog that first year—but it was probably the free hoodie that closed the deal. A free Red Hat jacket also helped motivate new contributors to publish three articles. I still have the jacket and the hoodie with this on the back:

    A jacket with text on the back: "Up for some geekspeak? Meet me at developerblog.redhat.com."
    The swag that helped attract new contributors back in 2013.

    A bit cheesy at the time, but it was voted on by the contributors. (Lesson learned: Some things should be left to professionals).

    Chapter 2

    Year 2 began with an excellent base of contributors who were now wearing “stylish” Red Hat outerwear. Then peer pressure took over: Those contributors' teammates, desiring to be part of the in-crowd with cool wardrobes, joined in with submissions of their own. Content and readership grew. Rinse and repeat.

    Chapter 10

    Fast forward over ten years, hot industry topics came to feed our content backlog: OpenShift, Kubernetes, containers, microservices, Quarkus, RHEL 8 and 9, and a whole lot more.

    Today, the Red Hat Developer blog is managed by professional editors. The site continues to deliver great development-related content, including Developer Sandbox activities, tech talks and events, learning paths, e-books, and cheat sheets.

    Mike's top picks

    Looking back, here are my top five picks from the past decade:

    • Biggest surprise: Improving math performance in glibc. I just needed something to fill space on a Friday, but this became big on Hacker News, bringing in 20,000 views over the weekend.
    • Best that was my idea: How to install Python 3 on RHEL. Good thing Rob Terzi was around to write it.
    • Best by a rookie (and #1 overall): How to find and fix memory leaks in your Java application. At the time, Leo was a Red Hat intern.
    • A list that fulfilled all expectations: 10 things to avoid in Docker containers by Rafael Benevides.
    • Best ghostwritten by me: No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription now available. This was an important new item for Red Hat.

    Congrats and thanks to the authors, who have earned their bragging rights.

    Epilogue

    I ran the Red Hat Developer blog for the first three or four years, and then I ran it again for a couple of more later on. So, I guess I reared this child for about half its life. It appears that this is my 305th article for the site, and I hope you've benefited from some of them.

    Many thanks to the hundreds of Red Hat Developer contributors over these ten years, as well as the millions of readers.

    Happy reading.

    Mike out

    Last updated: August 14, 2023

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