Solutions Architects Content Calendar

Content calendar for Solutions Architects.

Introduction

The purpose of this effort is to consistently create content that:

  • Helps customers be successful in an async manner
  • Supports our GTM efforts by scaling the solutions architecture knowledge and reach
  • Builds thought leadership across the solutions architecture community
  • Enables solutions architects to spend more time having meaningful conversations with customers

This is not meant to limit creativity. It’s a boring solution to systematically and consistently create content beneficial to our customers.

Content process

  1. Sign up as an author by adding your username to the calendar table next to the publish date of your choice. Multiple people are welcomed and encouraged to post during the same week.
  2. Choose a topic from the demo wishlist(internal only) or framework tutorials(internal only) list. Add the topic to the calendar table next to your username and publish date. Feel free to bring your own topic!
  3. Create your video or blog post. Please store all code examples in the Guided Explorations group to share with customers.
  4. If creating a video, please add your video to the Solutions Architecture GitLab Unfiltered Playlist.

Blog post generator

For easy creation of a blog post and all the items behind the scenes, use the blog post creator.

FY24 Q2 Calendar

Publish Week Author Topic Content Type
2023-05-08 Noah Ing & Sophia Manicor Managing Multiple Environments with Terraform and GitLab CI Blog
2023-05-15 Sam Morris Getting started with your first Docker app + container registry and scanning Blog
2023-05-22 Jeremy Wagner How To Deploy NextJS to Vercel Blog
2023-05-29 Cailey Pawlowski
2023-06-05 Julie Byrne How GitLab can help you with your SOC2 audit Blog
2023-06-12 Julie Byrne Preparing for a Migration to GitLab.com Blog
2023-06-19 Michael Balzer Blog
2023-06-26 Jeremy Wagner & Sophia Manicor React + Cypress Tests Blog
2023-07-03 Joe Randazzo
2023-07-10 Siddharth Mathur
2023-07-17
2023-07-24

Example Blogs & Videos

Here is a list of example posts and videos to serve as an inspiration for getting started. You do not need to add your post to the list once you’re finished.

Publish Date Author Topic Content Type
2022-01-27 Sarah Bailey All About The Merge Request Video
2022-08-02 Madou Coulibaly and Joe Randazzo How to provision dynamic review environments using merge requests and Argo CD Blog
2022-09-23 Joe Randazzo CI/CD Modernization with GitLab Video
2022-10-06 Jeremy Wagner How to automate testing for a React application with GitLab Blog
2023-01-03 Joe Randazzo and Noah Ing Keeping Your Development DRY Blog
2023-01-09 Julie Byrne Migrating from Self-Managed to SaaS Video
2023-02-06 Siddharth Mathur Setting Up OIDC to Get Credentials from Google Cloud Video
2023-03-01 Jeremy Wagner How to Deploy React to Amazon S3 Blog
2023-03-06 Siddharth Mathur Automating Deployments to ECS with GitLab CI/CD Video
2023-03-13 Noah Ing and Sam Morris Actioning Security Vulnerabilities in GitLab Premium Blog
2023-03-15 Julie Byrne Getting Started with GitLab Application Security Blog
2023-03-21 Siddharth Mathur How to automate a Twitter bot using GitLab CI/CD Blog

DRI rotation

Every quarter, the DRI for maintaining the calendar will rotate. The main responsiblity of the DRI is finding volunteers to fill the calendar to ensure consistent content creation and to identify the next DRI.

FY24 Q2 DRI: Jeremy Wagner

FY24 Q3 DRI: Open to volunteers

How to contribute

Everyone can contribute. This effort was started to combine multiple initiatives to get content to help customers. Have an idea? Submit an MR and improve the process.

Some easy ways to contribute to this effort are:

  1. Volunteer for a spot on the calendar
  2. Volunteer to be the DRI for a quarter
  3. Adding requested demos to the 5 minute demo wishlist
  4. Add frameworks to the frameworks tutorial list
  5. Expand the deployment options for various cloud providers
  6. Identify the best way to share content with the GTM team so they are aware to share with customers
Last modified June 27, 2024: Fix various vale errors (46417d02)