Hello Google Cloud Community! We’re deviating slightly from our regularly scheduled monthly Community Roundup series to take a look back at not just what happened in December, but everything we’ve accomplished together in 2022.
We’re featuring top contributors, the most active conversations, popular events, learning challenge winners, and more. Let’s dive in!
Google Cloud Community 2022 stats at-a-glance
The Google Cloud Community welcomed 49,367 new members
4.3 million minuteswere spent by members on the Community
There were 1.9 million visits to the Community
Members contributed 25,905 posts and gave 12,112 kudos
Top contributors
The Community would not be what it is without our invaluable members. We appreciate each and every person who visits and contributes - making it a friendly, helpful, and rewarding place to be.
Below are a few shoutouts to folks who go above and beyond. Share your appreciation with a comment below!
Cloud Forums
Solution authors: @API-Evangelist @VishalBulbule @Arnaduga @RC1 @SebastianG
Kudos (likes) received: @API-Evangelist @Bodya @naveen4b3 @Arnaduga @Yaudim
Visits: @aramkrishna6 @API-Evangelist @Aravind_1 @Giupo @priyashikhar
Kudos (likes) given: @optimism @stewypunk @Clouds @Yazz @BOAVENTURA
Honorable mentions and shoutouts:
@glen_yu has been a longstanding pillar of the Google Cloud Community, consistently showing up for other members, providing helpful and thoughtful responses, and crushing Google Cloud certifications and credentials. Thank you Glen for all you do!
@DamianS Thank you for your contributions across the Cloud Forums. In just a few months of joining the Community, you’ve helped answer a ton of questions, and even provided feedback around the Community site. We appreciate all your help!
@morpheus Thank you for asking and answering questions in the Data Analytics forum!
@VishalBulbule Big thank you for helping fellow Community members across Infrastructure and Data Analytics.
Learning & Certification Hub
Solution authors: @Abhishek213 @brlikhon @Akshat512 @SidVjSingh @saumya_prasad
Kudos (likes) received: @Abhishek213 @smitop @Richard_Rivero @SidVjSingh @Bholoubi
Visits: @Babar_Ali @dehscardoso @Abhishek213 @Richard_Rivero @SidVjSingh
Kudos (likes) given: @Bholoubi @kim_nilsson @Abhishek213 @Richard_Rivero @davidregalado25
Googlers
Here our top contributing Googlers! This is not including Community Managers (more on those folks is further below 
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Solution authors: @dchiesa1 @ErnestoC @strebel @grobledo @comaro
Kudos (likes) received: @dchiesa1 @msoss @strebel @omkarsuram @Teresa_Pato
Visits: @dchiesa1 @HectorArturo @Jagadeeshm @ErnestoC @comaro
Kudos (likes) given: @dchiesa1 @kumards @dionnenoella @dknezic @markjkelly
Honorable mentions and shoutouts:
Thank you @alexmoore for your contributions to the Cloud Forums - answering questions and taking time out of your day to support users goes a long way. Thank you!
Thank you @knet and @etaim for helping out with Serverless-related questions. We all appreciate your time and dedication to the Community!
Special thanks to @kolban ! You have been a pillar to the Community since launch. Thanks a ton!
A BIG thank you to @abdelfettah . Your help across the Cloud Forums is invaluable!
Thank you to @ghh for helping out with Dataform questions!
Thank you @cameronperon for leading the charge with the Apigee Community events, content, and advocates!
Google Cloud Community Conversations
In 2022, there were 25,905 posts published to the Google Cloud Community. Wow! Let’s break down what these were all about and highlight some of the most popular topics.
The most popular Cloud Forum by page views in 2022 was Apigee, followed by the Cloud Hub, Infrastructure: Compute, Storage, Networking, Data Analytics, and Serverless.
Breaking it down even further, here’s a word cloud with some of the most popular topics from the Cloud Forums. The size of the word indicates how often it was discussed.
Google Cloud Community Events
We held 19 Google Cloud Community events in 2022 on topics ranging from serverless to cost optimization and many more in between (see all our events on-demand here!)
Our most viewed events in 2022 were as follows:
- Learn to earn cloud challenge preparation (watch here now) Thank you @carrie !
- Careers in cloud: Getting started on Google Cloud (watch here now) Thank you @brianrice !
- Site Reliability Engineering Fundamentals (watch here now) Thank you @pamcanova !
- Ask Me Anything: System Design Best Practices (watch here now) Thank you @omkarsuram !
- Ask Me Anything: How to Optimize Cloud Performance (watch here now) Thank you @abambah1 and @leesd !
Is there a topic you want us to cover next? Please let us know by leaving a comment below. We’d love to hear from you!
Google Cloud Community Blogs
We published 15 Google Cloud Community blogs in 2022, including best practices, certification guides, tutorials, and much more (see all our blogs here!).
Our most viewed blogs in 2022 were as follows:
- 3 Next '22 Sessions for Designing Best Practice Architectures on Google Cloud Thank you @omkarsuram !
- Google Cloud Community Learning & Certification Hub Newsletter Thank you @carrie @emily927 and @Yugali !
- How to Optimize Google Cloud Costs: Compute, Networking, and Cloud Storage Thank you Dan Sheppard, Nishant Kohli, Brandon Bouier, and @Moazzam !
- Simplify Day 2 Cloud Operations with Google Cloud Solutions and Architectural Design Best Practices Thank you @omkarsuram and Rakesh Dhoopar!
- Guide to Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Certification Thank you @taviam @msoss and @mccormickh !
- Bonus
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Fundamentals Thank you @pamcanova !
Is there a topic you want us to cover next? Please let us know by leaving a comment below. We’d love to hear from you!
Learning & Certification Hub
The Learning & Certification Hub was busy this year! In 2022, there were more than 10 learning challenges, nearly 1,000 posts in Cloud Learning Logs, and hundreds of newly-certified Cloud professionals sharing their accomplishments in the Cloud Certified Group forum.
Other highlights include a new Google Cloud Certified digital toolkit, the first quarterly Learning & Certification Hub newsletter, Certification prep webinars, and a new Google Cloud Skills Boost Annual Subscription offering.
A few of the most popular challenges in 2022 were:
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge
Learn to Earn Cloud Security challenge
GO! A startup and growth mindset challenge
No-code November Challenge
Qwiklabs Express
Other challenges included the Diwali Challenge, #GoogleClout, the Spring Cleaning Challenge, Sports Data Challenge, the Halloween Challenge, and most recently, the Holiday Express.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in 2022. We’re looking forward to even more to come in 2023 and can’t wait to see what you can do!
Did you have a favorite challenge from 2022? or a favorite prize? Please let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Thank you from the Google Cloud Community team
On behalf of the Google Cloud Community team, thank you to everyone who has made the Community such a rewarding place to be - members, visitors, customers, partners, Googlers… thank you all.
And we can’t forget our Community Managers. Thank you @cloud_spanner @willie @shanefeely @Roderick @carrie @emily927 @Michelle and @kasey .
We couldn’t do it without you!
We’re looking forward to even more to come for the Google Cloud Community in 2023, including new ways for members to get involved, shiny new badges, improved user experiences, more live events and how-to blogs, and much more.
Have ideas or feedback? Please let us know in the comments or by creating a post in the feedback forum. We’d love to hear from you.
Thank you and happy new year!
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