Developer relations

A framework for building high gravity communities 🪐 - orbit-love/orbit-model

I recently discovered the Orbit model thanks to a recommendation from Claire Carroll. The Orbit model is a self described "framework for building high gravity communities," but I was fascinated with the idea of applying the same concept to a movement organization. I'm obsessed with understanding how we measure people power as a way of helping us organize smarter. I've done some work to measure our movement's power and translate the findings into tangible actions organizers can take, but I was cu

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Last week, Abi Noda (DX), Dr. Storey (University of Victoria), Dr. Forsgren (Microsoft Research) and Dr. Greiler (DX) published an article on development productivity, identifying three core d…

I'm no English major, but as a writer and consumer of loads of educational (mostly tech) writing, I've come to notice a number of words and phrases that come

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The importance of understanding company context.

To focus more on developer experience (DX), we created a team that wakes up every day thinking about how to improve the SendGrid experience for developers.

Developer advocates help external communities make the best of your techno

The end-to-end life cycle of a developer within your DevRel program.

We like to think the git config repository is equivalent to how things change, but in reality, there is a gap between these static definitions and what actually happens.

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As developer advocates, avoid becoming extensions of other teams by closely learning metrics: the different types you'll encounter and when to use them, which are trusted and untrusted, and how to build them effectively to support your team's goals.

Recently I've noticed some good discussions in the API community around what API Product Management actually is and what it entails. Of the ...

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Learn to integrate the craft of writing with the craft of programming. This book teaches you how to create documentation for each step in...

This book provides a broad perspective about the essential aspects of creating technical documentation in today's product development wor...

Managers love to measure performance using objectives and key results. Their teams? Not so much. Learn how #OKRs work best and how to overcome pitfalls.

software licenses are unavoidably a legal tool. the legal system, in the US and approximately everywhere else, is not a machine that leads to justice. therefore, software licenses do not lead to justice.

I recently contributed to a series of fireside chats hosted by LaunchDarkly. One of the themes that we discussed was Developer Experience, and how to improve it. I was asked by one of the attendees at the EMEA event (video here, interview by Cody De Arkland) about further reading on the subject and offered to

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Doing DevRel digitally, rather than exclusively via the airport/conference model, is inclusive, impactful and intentional. This post reflects on 2020, the (first?) year of no travel, and which chan…

Lorna Mitchell runs a Developer Relations team at Aiven. She shares her insights on launching a DevRel team, documentation, reporting structure, and how and where to best engage developers.

Confused about developer advocacy? Or interested in stepping into the role? A seasoned developer advocate answers common questions.