Developer relations

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.

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

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...

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 …

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Your DevRel team can make a huge impact on your bottom line. But what metrics should they be measured against? OV's Ashley Smith explains here.

Know what KPIs you should measure and analyze for your community forum by using the CAKE framework.

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As newer versions of systems are rolled out every day, more powerful and useful functions, APIs, methods, classes are developed in the…

Hiring for developer relations roles is hard. Here are five mistakes that you can avoid to make your search easier.

Why is @stripe's API so good?Teams debate the naming of each field, talk about trade-offs, and attempt to plan ahead for new features that may change the shape of the API.We *take the time* to get it right, and individual engineers recognize the best design requires teamwork.— Zach Tratar (@zachtratar) February 21, 2020