Cloud evolution, steps for getting started, and more OpenStack news

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OpenStack around the web

There is a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack. Here's a sampling from some of our favorites:

Evolution of a cloud as seen through Gerrit: A look back at OpenStack through the years, review by review.
5 easy steps to get started with OpenStack: What's the best way for a beginner to jump in?
Ceph, TripleO and the Newton release: Some notes ahead of OpenStack's next major version increment.
Leading India e-commerce site launches OpenStack hybrid cloud: Snapdeal welcomes cost savings, performance gains with 100,000 core OpenStack deployment.
20 reasons why web hosting companies should embrace OpenStack: Features galore make OpenStack a strong sell to hosting providers.
Meet the "gardeners" of OpenStack: The requirements team PTL talks about "awesome tomatoes" and weeding.
Google's Diane Greene is on the verge of scoring a huge I-told-you-so: Why Google's alignment with OpenStack may be helping their public cloud platform.
Inaugural OpenStack Days event in China draws thousands: Open source cloud computing aficionados gathered in Bejiing for the two-day event.

OpenStack discussions

Here's a sample of some of the most active discussions this week on the OpenStack developers' listserv. For a more in-depth look, why not dive in yourself?

Rolling upgrades database triggers and oslo.versionedobjects: A thread on consequences of database use decisions.
Coordination between actions/WGs: Continued coordination work for massively distributed architecture planning.
Next steps for resource providers work: Planning updates in Nova.
Reliable way to filter CI in Gerrit spam: Getting only the information you need.

For more from the developer email list, check out Mike Perez's digest of the OpenStack Developer Mailing List (not updated weekly) or Hugh Blemings' Last week on OpenStack Dev.

OpenStack events

Let's take a look at a few of the global events happening this week. Did we miss an important one? Email us and let us know, or add it to our events calendar.