Developer relations

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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

A practical guide for how to grow your developer tool startup's Twitter presence.

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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…

With the changes brought about by the global pandemic and talk of a new fundraising round at a valuation of up to $100B, Stripe seems unstoppable. But can they keep their dominance in the next 10 years? And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? We look at how Stripe rose to its current popularity and what they are doing to keep their place to answer those questions.

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.

THREAD: 💻 50 Lessons In Developer Marketing 💻I spent the past few weeks scouring the web for the best articles, reports, and interviews on developer marketing. Think developers hate marketing? Think again. They just hate yours.1 Tweet = 1 Lesson = 1 ArticleLet's go 🚀— Nick Moore (@nickwritesit) June 8, 2021

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

Our developer advocate Amanda Folson shares some community building tips with Jasmine Anteunis, co-founder of startup Recast.ai

To be successful at digital transformation you need to optimize the key feedback loops in your software engineering organization

While I’ve made a case for Developer Experience (DevEx) – aptly named The Case for a Great Developer Experience – I realized it was making the case to other developers. Obviously developers understand that better docs, a good design, and useful examples make a product easier to use. But how do we quantify that? How […]

The Developer Experience organization at Netlify is quite unique. In this post, we talk through the structure of the organization, how we work, who we are, and some of our team strategies.

A framework to build a successful developer marketing program for your business. Read the full talk script in a much nicer format: http://jdb.io/scoop-talk Hello and thank you for coming. It’s a pleasure to be here and I’m really thrilled to have the opportunity to speak to you all today about a topic that I’m very passionate about, marketing to developers. The inspiration for this talk was a repeated interest among friends and colleagues about what it is that I actually do. I found that the more I tried to explain the approach to my work, the more I would find patterns. This talk is a coll...

Marketers can learn a lot from developers, as one developer advocate explains – especially those developers who resist very the idea of ‘marketing’.

In the world of web APIs, the need for governance and shared standards increases as a business seriously considers its data value and platform strategy.

Establishing a career path for Developer Relations is one more step forward in creating a mature industry. It makes a bold statement that we know our value, we’re here to stay, and here’s our plan on how to move forward in our careers! I recently rolled out a Career Path with my team at Camunda, and

We’re going to be entering our quarterly planning cycle at Box soon, which always brings up the topic of output vs. outcomes (note: the angst around goal-setting frameworks is not unique to Box by any means). One of the better books I’ve read on the topic is

Community is a hot topic right now and the world of community is exploding with new tools and platforms. We get asked all the time about various tools in the community space, or if we've heard of a new product that just launched.

Documentation: In tech, we spend considerable time producing user-facing documentation including API docs, how-to guides, knowledge bases, tutorials, and user manuals. We do this because user documentation is part of our product's user experience; without docs, people can't use our product. The same thinking can, and s

Business-led IT differs from shadow IT in two vitally important ways. Business-led IT is open and transparent from start to finish, whereas shadow IT is hidden and under the radar for all or part of its life cycle. Secondly, business-led IT is usually much more of a collaborative effort between business and IT where appropriate …