Welcome! 👋
Happy belated Juneteenth to those of you in the States, and happy DevRel Weekly Day to all of you!
After a very busy week and a half with my team and coworkers, I'm in Austin this week for Open Source Summit North America -- be sure to swing by the Camunda booth to say hi if you are as well!
If you're not there, there's plenty of content to keep you busy this week. 😊 From great tweets to stellar interview questions to the latest State of Community Management report, there are a lot of gems!
Enjoy the links, and as always, if I've missed something, please send it my way!
Best,
Mary (@mary_grace)
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Tidbits 🕔
What Traits Make the Biggest Difference?
twitter.comLike any career path, #DevRel isn’t for everyone.
Someone could be a brilliant engineer, but a terrible developer advocate.
The traits I see people talking about most include:
- empathy
- a passion for sharing knowledge
- unique technical background
What else would you add?
With Great Power...
twitter.comCommunity has the power to build as well as destroy things. And we Community builders are the ones who write the manuscript for it. Be careful how you use this power because with great power comes great responsibility.
Branding is more than just Visual Identity and Market Fit
twitter.comBranding is much more than visual identity and market fit. It is also about the #community that believes in what your company is doing. Today #developers need to identify themselves with the product and what it represents. They don't adopt products. They join tribes!
Quotes from Edidiong Asikpo
These two quotes from Edidiong Asikpo's talk at Google I/O Extended Uyo resonated with me this past week. Looking forward to hopefully seeing a recording of it in the future!
Developer Advocacy switches between Creating Knowledge and being active in the community
A Developer Advocate is concerned with sharing knowledge and making it easier for people in the community to excel in tech
Thanks for recording both of these, Loveday Sunday!
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Tangibles 🤓
My interview questions for developer advocates
If you're looking for a Dev Advocate, you might be wondering how to conduct a technical interview. Lucky for you, Alexander Reelsen has published his go-to questions for this particular (usually late-in-the-game) interview. What are your thoughts? Are there other questions you'd ask? Things you disagree with? I'd love to hear!
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What Makes a Great Developer Experience?
As more and more articles are released about how to create a great developer experience, it can be hard to keep track of all the best links. As a result, Lee Robinson has put together a collection of links, tweets, and core resources about developer experience to jumpstart your journey.
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The Developer Advocate ToolKit: Software Tools You Need To Move Fast
Looking to move more quickly in your role as a developer advocate? Whether you're looking for renewed productivity, help with content, or the latest and greatest coding apps, this article from Prosper Otemuyiwa likely has you covered!
Looking for more "core skills" than tooling? Chukwuemeka Afigbo recently released a blogpost about the three core skills they've found necessary to kickstart your career.
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DevRel Podcasts and Videos
- DevRel: Contributor to Manager (Twitter Space)
- How I Became a Developer Advocate with Kris Jenkins and Danica Fine (video)
- Developer Advocacy and Innersource with Aaron Clark - Break Things on Purpose
- Community Pros need to be good at Business not just Community with Nicole Saunders - Peers over Beers
- Getting started in DevRel - Skills, resources, opportunities (Twitter Space)
- Developer Advocate In 2022? with Mike Bifulco - Don the Developer Podcast
- DevRel: How Technical Communities Can Maximize Impact & Success with Tessa Kriesel and Moschoula Kramvousanou (video)
- DevRel AMA (video)
Events 📆
DevRel Events
Events and meet-ups may be calming down for a bit, but be rest-assured there's plenty to come soon! Be sure to check our Event Collection for new events coming up!
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Jobs 👩💻
Senior Developer Advocate
With the explosive growth of data and the accelerated movement to digitization, data has become the lifeblood of businesses. But these businesses are unable to build delightful data-driven experiences fast enough. Join us in our journey early-on and help shape the future of data infrastructure! At Tigris Data our Developer Relations team is tasked with building awareness and adoption of Tigris database platform.
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Jobs 👩💻
DevRel Jobs
The DevRel industry continues to grow and the job market certainly reflects that! Have you seen our giant collection of DevRel, DevRel related, and Community Manager jobs lately?
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