The DevOps Writing Contest: Round 3 Results Announced!

We’re back! Aptible and HackerNoon bring you the DevOps Writing Contest, round 3 results. In the third round, we published 50 #devops stories, generating 11 days of reading time. Shoutout to all the writers who have participated in this contest! Your active participation will help us bring more sponsored tags for the community.

Reading about the DevOps Writing Contest for the first time?

The DevOps Writing Contest aims to explore expertise, projects, experiences, learnings, and challenges around reliability, scalability, automation, and infrastructure.

Here’s the Message from the Aptible team:

"Aptible's mission is to enable developers to do more with less infrastructure. We also know that when it comes to infrastructure, there are a myriad of opinions and strong opinions at that. And that’s why we’re excited to partner with HackerNoon, to get more content written, opinions out in the open, and spur active discussion and knowledge sharing of how infrastructure is being built and utilized."

Share your #DevOps expertise and win the DevOps writing contest! $18,000 worth of prizes await you!

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The DevOps Writing Contest: Round 3 Finalists

For selecting the nominations, we picked all the stories with the #devops tag on HackerNoon, published in October. Then, we chose the top stories weighing in the following factors:

1. Number of hours read
2. The number of people reached
3. The originality of the content
4. Relevance to the topics shared by the sponsor. See the contest’s writing prompt here.

Here’s the list of the Round 3 finalists:

1. Confessions of a DevOps Guru: How I Would Learn Devops If I Could Start Again by @abrahamdahunsi.
2. How to Dockerize And Deploy Django Applications by @abrahamdahunsi.
3. Stateful vs. Stateless Applications in Containerized Environments by @faithadeyinka.
4. NoOps: The Future of DevOps or a Mythical Utopia? by @ezikielemmanuel.
5. Simple Database Migration Scripts On Your CI/CD step by @mindsky.
6. Enhancing DevOps Efficiency With ChatOps by @vladislavbilay.
7. From DevOps to NetDevOps: Where Are We Now in Networking? by @verlainedevnet.
8. Netflix's Secret Sauce: The DevOps Behind Your Binge-Watching by @abrahamdahunsi
9. The Software Deployment Checklist You've Never Seen by @ayoibrahim.
10. Build a Movie Streaming App Like Netflix Using Node.js, MySQL, and Deploy on Aptible by @wise4rmgod.

Round 3 Winners of The DevOps Writing Contest by Aptible

With overall 27% of the votes, the article that has won the first place is:

Have you ever wondered how Netflix manages to deliver thousands of hours of content to millions of users across the globe without any glitches or delays? How do they keep up with the ever-changing demands and preferences of their customers? How do they ensure that their service is always available, reliable, and secure?

Well, the answer lies in their secret sauce.

Well deserved, @abrahamdahunsi! You have won $1500!

With 16% of the overall votes, the second position is won by:

Imagine watching your favorite movies and TV shows anytime, anywhere, without worrying about slow loading times. That's the power of a movie streaming web app like Netflix.

But what if you could build your movie streaming web app without managing the infrastructure? That's where Aptible comes in.

Another win, @wise4rmgod! Congratulations! You have won $1,000.

In the third place, we have:

I've seen a lot of outstanding, high-level work in several of the submissions to the DevOps Writing Contest. However, few individuals consider how to keep the database up to date on common standbys (dev, stage, prod, etc.) while working every day. This article is intended for novice developers. I used Spring as an example to demonstrate a simple technique for introducing a database migration system into the CI/CD process.

We will require Liquibase and GitLab CI/CD tools for this deployment. Assume for the moment that a database is up and running. I will be using PostgreSQL.

Congratulations,@mindsky, you have won $500!

Congratulations to all the winners of the DevOps Writing Contest! Here are the next steps to claim your prize

• [ ]Please contact [email protected] and [email protected] using the email ID attached to the winner's hackernoon account.
• [ ]We will validate your claim and share a form requesting your bank details for reward distribution.
• [ ]You will receive your winnings in 2-4 weeks after filling out the form.

Please note that you must contact us within 60 days after the winners’ announcement date.

Visit contests.hackernoon.com to learn more about running and upcoming contests.