“K8S Ecology Weekly” has been a year! Thank you for your attention and support!

It has been exactly one year since the first “K8S Ecology Weekly” was published on March 25, 2019, and 52 articles have been published. On this special day, I would like to share with you my feelings, as well as the original intention and development of K8S Ecology Weekly.

origin

Those who contact K8S ecology or container ecology are not difficult to find that the whole ecology involves a lot of things, every day there are countless new news, new changes, a little careless will miss a lot of valuable content.

This is an era of information explosion. At the same time, most people, including me, have certain “anxiety”, so they always hope to quickly screen out valuable content in the face of massive information.

At the beginning of last year, when I made a personal summary, I found that although I was exposed to a lot of information every day, there was not much that was really valuable, or worth my continuous attention.

And because there is no filing, some things may be forgotten if you just memorize them by yourself. You may later spend time learning or learning about it again, which is another form of waste.

Therefore “K8S ecological weekly” is the idea began to publish the first article K8S ecological weekly | 2019.03.25 ~ 2019.03.31.

Process improvement

After the first “K8S Ecology Weekly” was published, I thought it was worth doing. At the same time, in order to improve efficiency and simplify some manual operations (automation is the primary productivity), I wrote a tool during the weekend and added weekly reports to my TODO.

Specifically, due to years of participation in open source projects, I am used to using GitHub issue to manage my personal TODO, and GitHub provides the function of Project management, so it looks like this now:

There are weekly automated tasks to help me manage these issues and add them to my weekly schedule to keep track of progress. The weekly “K8S Ecology Weekly” draft is also completed in the issue, and the content will be sorted out and published at the weekend.

The task for managing such issues is hosted on GitLab. The implementation is as follows:

This set of tools has been running stably for one year without any adjustment, which can still improve my efficiency.

Stage of development

“K8S Ecology Weekly” was only published on my blog, public account (MoeLove), Zhihu column and Nuggets at first, and later added SegmentFault and Weibo. I also got a lot of support and feedback from my friends.

Last month, considering that the text version was not detailed enough, I added a video version with more detailed content with the support of my little cute, which was simultaneously posted on BiliBili, Watermelon video and wechat video. Thanks to my little cutie

harvest

Simply share the data of “K8S Ecology Weekly”. The basic situation is as follows:

You can see that it is very consistent with the update frequency of my weekly report, and there are obvious fluctuations from week to week. I kept pushing on my official account on Monday morning.

The numbers don’t mean much, but it’s nice to watch them go up and know that more people see what you’ve written, so I’m just sharing a trend here.

The real gains are the following:

  • I have been insisting on the weekly newspaper, so it is another way to force me to solve the problem that the previous information was not “archived”;
  • In addition, due to the need to explain the content clearly, so also deepen the impression and understanding of the information;
  • Personal time is less, to spare time to write a complete article will be more troublesome, through the form of weekly, you can also incidentally want to say a little content added, also convenient a lot;
  • When I participated in KubeCon last year, some of my friends said that they kept reading my “K8S Ecology Weekly” every week.
  • Opened a communication group, but also a lot of small partners to join;
  • In a large amount of information can quickly screen out effective information, and continue to pay attention to it, it is very good for personal growth;

Looking forward to

“K8S Ecology Weekly” mainly contains some recommended weekly information related to K8S ecology that I have come into contact with. Welcome to subscribe zhihu column “K8S Ecology”.

This is written in every “K8S Ecology weekly” fixed content, but also introduced the positioning of “K8S ecology Weekly”. Each week’s content contains recommendations that I’ve come across.

If you have been paying attention to “K8S Ecology Weekly”, you should have noticed that sometimes the updated content is very little. There are two main reasons for this. I was too busy to pay attention to it. 2. There is really nothing worth paying attention to. The positioning of “K8S Ecology Weekly” will not change in a short time, and all the contents are produced by me. Maybe I will include some contents that I do not have time to write a complete article. If you have any recommendations, such as technical articles/open source projects, please feel free to contact us

In the future, I will continue to update. In addition, as the introduction of the official account says, “Not only Container, Docker, Kubernetes and other technologies, I will share with you more used and promising technologies.” Welcome to follow!

Thank you for your support!