Solutions Architects Content Calendar

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