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Take the 2022 Rewind Challenge! 🥇‌

Michal_Gebacki — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:30:36 GMT

It's time to present you this year's last Community Challenge! 🎆

The "2022 Rewinder" Badge

2022 is slowly reaching its end, making it a good time to sum up the previous 12 months. Globally, this year was a big mess, that's for sure, however, our personal lives didn't lack smaller or larger accomplishments here and there.

We'd love to ask you to share some of your achievements, things that made you proud or simply excited! Sky is the limit - pick anything that pops out in your mind 🎉

Every participant gets a unique "2022 Rewinder" badge and +100 bonus points.

Let's start with my little-big success: I've finally driven a left-hand car during my holidays in Cyprus. It wasn't as stressful as I've expected, even though the traffic was super busy! Now I feel ready to explore with rental cars New Zealand, South Africa, Japan... 😎

"Keep the left lane, repeat"

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Kenny_Gillette — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:25:18 GMT

My two accomplishments for year (one Dynatrace related and one not)

1.) Setup Monaco to backup Dynatrace for two companies

2.) Started playing tennis again as I hadn't played since high school (many years ago)

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Mike_L — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:32:30 GMT

I like the one Dynatrace related and one not accomplishment of Kenny, I'll stick with that.

1) Managed to bring the whole extension services team together for the first time, with people from all the way from North America to Europe to Australia.
2) Started eating healthier lunches (fruit and yoghurt!)

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Kenny_Gillette — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:33:29 GMT

thanks, eating healthier this year too. I should add to mine 🙂

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pahofmann — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:59:26 GMT

Was really excited about building my first (and then 2nd, 3rd, ..) 3D Printer from scratch. Had built a few from kits before but sourcing all the parts and building it from scratch was really great experience and lot's of fun.

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AntonioSousa — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:53:12 GMT

Oh my, I understand you @Michal_Gebacki ! I had the same sensation some years ago after driving 500 miles in the UK for the first time 😁

Lots of good things this year for me to remember. I do love gardening a lot, and I would say I became a banana producer this year! 113 (not that big) bananas from the Madeira subspecie. They are more sweeter and tastier than the Cavendish subspecie that you might know, but are smaller.

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Shirai — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:54:29 GMT

Some are related to Dynatrace and some are not. Both are exciting events.

1) Selected as “the Community Member of the Month for September 2022”. I received a backpack as a prize, which I use for commuting.

2) Looking back on 2022, it's a new topic, but Japan's historic victory🙌 over Germany and Spain at the FIFA World Cup 2022⚽.

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Malaik — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:45:50 GMT

Heyyyy Everyone

My big achievment this year is to be a part of Dynamight .

The second is, I joined the biggest customer in the MiddleEast for some achievement and the ENV is too huge.

Hope 2023 reserve best things.

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dannemca — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:18:30 GMT

2022 was a great year to me, despite the COVID (and its side effects in general).

- Got my Dynatrace ACE certification and was invited to be part of 1, 2, 3 videos.

- Got my Kyndryl SRE Level 2 certificaiton and am even more engaged in the SRE community there.

- Decided to take a great step in my personal life x work balance, working at home, in my home town, where I left 16 years ago to seek my career. I am now close to my old friends and family.

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Ana_Kuzmenchuk — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:26:32 GMT

Wow, a lovely garden indeed Had to do a quick research about Madeiras, is it true that you can't get those anywhere except Portugal?

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Kenny_Gillette — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:28:33 GMT

Yummy, I want some 🙂 We eat many bananas in this household

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Michal_Gebacki — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:55:09 GMT

Wow, that's a truly inspiring story! Always great to see how people consequently try to seek proper work and life balance 😊

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dannemca — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:18:20 GMT

I will follow your steps!! Me and my sons eat an average of 15 bananas/day, can you imagine how helpful would be having a bananeira at home? 🙊

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AntonioSousa — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:44:33 GMT

Not a specialist in International Law, or European law, but seems that in the past some have defined what a "normal" banana is. And bananas from Madeira are not normal, so they can't be sold elsewhere than in Portugal. This might have evolved, not even checked for this post, but I have heard some strange things about bananas in the past. BTW, there is a good reason for the expression "banana republic"...

I also knew nothing about banana plants before a neighbors mother (from Madeira) brought 3 little banana babies for me. They have replicated into something very nice.

BTW2: I was really expecting that some keen eye would have noticed the bananas I posted in the following comment 🤣

https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Community-challenges/Take-the-Commuter-Challenge/m-p/187144/highlight/true#M1042

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Michal_Gebacki — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 08:23:14 GMT

Observing people's reactions worldwide, I feel that this historic victory of your national football team is important not only for Japanese people! 😄

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Karolina_Linda — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 08:27:35 GMT

Huge kudos to the Japanese team! ⚽
On the other hand, Poland made it out of the group by losing the last match 0:2! That's an achievement! 😄

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Karolina_Linda — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 08:29:14 GMT

Nice! So what was the first thing you printed on your very own device, Patrick? 🙂

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Mizső — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:14:07 GMT

Hi Folks,

This year I changed a side from client to provider (dark side 😉) to share my DT experince with other clients. I started to follow my dream and I could focus only on DT in 2022.

I became a DynaMight. 😍

With the Community Team we launched the Hungarian user group which is growing.

I organaized the first Dynatrace PUB for our client's SREs.

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kurt_aigner — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:23:31 GMT

Wow, that is an awesome challenge! Let's see what comes to my mind ....

3 vacations with my family!

Skiing in February
Summer vacation in Italy
And a remarkable trip to Paris in October

Mission accomplished: We did catch up on vacations after the pandemic!
Same is true for socializing events with my one-of-a-kind Dynatrace colleagues:

Summer Party
Christmas Party

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richard_guerra — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:58:00 GMT

Got some outdoor ice time with the grandkids. Tim Hortons coffee cups for goal posts! Was a late season thing last winter, but looking forward to many more of these skates this upcoming season!