What is an awesome list? Contribution guide Twitter
This project continues a trend started by Sindre Sorhus where he created a project to list useful resources for various topics: NodeJS, JVM, Networking, etc.
Awesome Developer Advocacy is a curated list of 905 resources for anyone interested in DevRel. These links aim to help those who are just starting, planning to get involved, or looking to further their skills in the Developer Advocacy field.
- Books (51)
- Conferences (16)
- Blogs (254)
- Blogging Series (87)
- Individual Posts (167)
- Videos (125)
- Video Channels (27)
- Individual Videos (98)
- Newsletters (30)
- Podcasts (49)
- Podcasting Series (40)
- Individual Episodes (9)
- Community Reports (23)
- Communities (72)
- Tools & Services (124)
- Courses & Training (18)
- Guides & Resources (143)
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"A Friendly Guide to Developer Advocacy"
- Author: Linda Ikechukwu
- Focus Area: Teaches everything you need to know to become a developer advocate, land a job, and build a thriving career.
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"API Strategy for Decision Makers"
- Author: Mike Amundsen & Derric Gilling
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century"
- Author: Jeff Lawson
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Badass: Making Users Awesome"
- Author: Kathy Sierra
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging"
- Author: Carrie Melissa Jones and Charles H. Vogl
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen"
- Author: Donald Miller
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Confessions of a Public Speaker"
- Author: Scott Berkun
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Crafting Docs for Success: An End-to-End Approach to Developer Documentation"
- Author: Diana Lakatos
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"Designing APIs with Swagger and OpenAPI"
- Author: Josh Ponelat and Lukas Rosenstock
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Designing Web APIs - Chapter 8: Building a Developer Ecosystem Strategy"
- Author: Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni, Amir Shevat
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"DevRel Puzzle"
- Author: Jorge Barrachina
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Developer Marketing Does Not Exist"
- Author: Adam DuVander
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Developer Marketing and Relations: The Essential Guide"
- Author: SlashData
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"Developer Relations Activity Patterns"
- Author: Ted Neward, Scott T. McAllister, David Neal, Chris Woodruff
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Developer Relations for Beginners: What to Know and How to Get Started"
- Author: Sarah Lean
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Developer Relations: How to Build and Grow a Successful Developer Relations Program"
- Author: Caroline Lewko
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"Developer Relations: How to build and grow a successful developer program"
- Author: Caroline Lewko and James Parton
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Developer, Advocate! Conversations on Turning a Passion for Talking to Developers into a Career"
- Author: Geertjan Wielenga
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"Docs Like Code: Collaborate and Automate to Improve Technical Documentation"
- Author: Anne Gentle
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing"
- Author: Jared Bhatti, Zachary Sarah Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Nunez, Heidi Waterhouse
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing"
- Author: Jared Bhatti, Zachary Sarah Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Nunez, and Heidi Waterhouse
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Frictionless: How to Outpace Your Competition in the AI Era"
- Author: Nicole Forsgren
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Free eBook
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"Getting Started in Developer Relations"
- Author: Sam Julien
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Modern Technical Writing"
- Author: Andrew Etter
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software Documentation"
- Author: Andrew Etter
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word"
- Author: Walter J. Ong
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams"
- Author: Jono Bacon
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Picks & Shovels: Developer Marketing for Startups and Growing Companies"
- Author: Strategic Nerds
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Platform Engineering"
- Author: Camille Fournier & Ian Nowland
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals"
- Author: Naomi Karten
- Focus Area: A book that provides expert advice and invaluable tips for technical professionals looking to improve their presentation skills.
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"Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace"
- Author: Joseph M. Williams
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Talk Like TED"
- Author: Carmine Gallo
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Team Topologies: Organizing for fast flow of value"
- Author: Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Technical Content Strategy Decoded"
- Author: Adam DuVander
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Technical Writing for Developers: Utilizing HTML, JavaScript, Markdown, and GitHub for Writing"
- Author: Jim Hall
- Focus Area: This guide helps devs utilise common tools like HTML, Markdown and GitHub for document markup as teams shift and technical writing falls onto the coder.
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"Technical Writing for Software Developers"
- Author: Chris Chinchilla
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation"
- Author: Jono Bacon
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging"
- Author: Charles H. Vogl
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"The Business Value of Developer Relations"
- Author: Mary Thengvall
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Business Value of Developer Relations: How and Why Technical Communities Are Key To Your Success"
- Author: Mary Thengvall
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
- Amazon Link
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"The Design of Web APIs"
- Author: Arnaud Lauret
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Developer Advocacy Handbook"
- Author: Christian Heilmann
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Developer Experience Book"
- Author: Addy Osmani
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Developer Productivity Engineering Handbook"
- Author: Gradle
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Developer's Guide to Content Creation"
- Author: Stephanie Morillo
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Feedback Loop"
- Author: Sam Julien
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Modern Developer Experience"
- Author: Steve Buchanan
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking"
- Author: Chris Anderson
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Product is Docs"
- Author: Christopher Gales, The Splunk Documentation Team
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
- Author: Edward R. Tufte
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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"Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software"
- Author: Nadia Eghbal
- Focus Area: Developer Advocacy
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These conferences are great resources for both in-person learning and as a place to watch videos from the events' past editions.
- All Things Open
- CMX Summit
- Cloud Native Developer Experiences in 2025
- DPE Summit
- DevConf.US 2026
- DevRel Conf - Russia
- DevRel Summit
- DevRel/Asia
- DevRelCon
- DevRelCon San Francisco 2019
- Developer Relations Conference
- DeveloperWeek
- MEGAComm
- Open Source Summit
- The Past, Present, and Future of RingCentral Developers 🚀 Join Our Developer Meetup and Learn More!
- apidays
These are the blogs that have been publishing DevRel content continuously rather than as a single post.
- #TCCS 13: What is Internal Developer Advocacy
- 10 Engaging SaaS Changelog Examples to Inspire You
- 2025 Developer Tool Trends: What Marketers Need to Know
- A Day in the Life of a Developer Advocate
- API Developer Experience (DX) Resources | API Guide
- API Evangelism and API Advocacy: Is There A Difference?
- Android Developers Blog
- Angie Jones' Blog
- Best Community Engagement Strategies
- Best Practices for Managing and Leading a Team of Developer Advocates
- Best Practices in API Design
- Black Girl Bytes by Rizèl Scarlett
- Bolaji Ayodeji's Blog
- Building Internal Developer Platforms That Actually Work
- Chris Reddington's DevRel Blog
- Climbing the DevRel Career Ladder
- Community Gamification: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide
- Community Guidelines That Actually Work: A Strategic Framework
- Community Strategy: The Three Level Framework
- DX Blog by GetDX
- DevRel Foundation Blog
- DevRel Management and Leadership: Guidance, Skill Development, and Book Recommendations
- DevRel Resources
- DevRel Weekly
- DevRel is More Than Marketing. It's Co-creation.
- DevRel.co
- DevRel.net
- DevRel/Engineering Leadership Resources
- Developer Advocate: Complete Career Guide for DevRel Professionals
- Developer Awards
- Developer Engagement Strategies: Behind the Scenes with PayPal's DevRel Expert Christina Monti
- Developer Experience (DevEx) in 2026
- Developer Experience: Prerequisite and Product of DevRel
- DeveloperRelations.com
- Dillion Megida's Blog
- Driving Developer Adoption in 2025
- Erin Mikail Staples' Website
- Everything Technical Writing
- Evolution and Value of Developer Relations
- Exploring Salaries in DevRel Careers: Research
- Guide to Building Developer Advocacy Communities
- HeavyBit Industries
- How Publishing a Changelog Can Help You Retain More Users
- How to Apply for Your First DevRel Job
- How to Build a Developer Community
- How to Build a Thriving Developer Community in 2025
- How to build a better developer experience
- Internal Developer Advocacy: What Should You Do Next?
- Internal Developer Platform [Benefits + Best Practices]
- Intuitive API Developer Experience with Nolan di Mare Sullivan from Speakeasy
- James Q. Quick's Website
- Learning About Developer Relations – All Blog Posts From 2020
- Level up your developer experience: Five practical strategies for engineering teams
- Mary Thengvall's Blog
- Max Katz's Blog
- Measuring the Impact of Developer Relations on Revenue
- Minko Gechev's Blog
- My first year as a Developer Advocate
- Navigating Your First Year as a Developer Advocate
- Orbit: DevRel Tool - Blog
- ProProfs Blog
- ShiftMag - Insightful engineering content & community
- Specialization and Career Paths for Developer Relations
- Stephanie Morillo's Content
- StephanieMorillo's Blog
- Steven Cooper's Website
- Ted Spence's Blog
- The Anatomy of a Successful Developer Advocate Program: Empowering Your Community
- The Complete Guide to Building and Growing a Vibrant Developer Community
- The DevRel Digest February 2025: DevRel You Should Know for 2025
- The Hard Parts of Developer Advocacy (For Me)
- The Ultimate Guide to Writing Technical Blog Posts
- The blog outline that beats all other blog outlines (for me).
- Top 10 Definitions of Developer Relations
- Top 100 Software Testing Blogs and Websites To Follow
- Voxgig DevRel Insights
- Web API Design Best Practices
- Wesley Faulkner's Website
- What Are Breaking Changes?
- What Goes Into Developer Incentive Programs?
- What I've Learned from 6 Years as a Developer Advocate
- What Is Developer Advocacy? (2025 Edition)
- What is an internal developer platform?
- What makes a team effective at Google
- Why Your API Needs a Dedicated Developer Experience Team
- Why care about the developer experience?
These are one-off blog posts on topics related to the DevRel.
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10 Strategies to Build a Thriving Developer Community
- Author: Nimrod Kramer
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10 ways to build a developer community
- Author: Jake Prins
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13 Best OpenAPI Documentation Tools for 2026
- Author: Treblle
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- Author: Postman
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30+ Public Speaking Tips for Developers
- Author: Ana Tavares
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4 Keys 2 Fun: Nicole Lazzaro's Game Design Framework (Part 1 of 4)
- Author: Yu-kai Chou
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5 AI-Powered Developer Tools Changing the Way We Work in 2025
- Author: brandon
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5 Biggest DevRel Challenges (and how to mitigate them)
- Author: Mary Thengvall
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5 Easy Ways to Recognize Who Your Developer Super Fans Are
- Author: Tessa Kriesel
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7 Tips for Breaking Into DevRel
- Author: Nader Dabit
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7 things that look like DevRel but aren’t
- Author: Marcos Placona
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7 tips to launch a career as a developer advocate
- Author: Sidney Maestre
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9 signs your marketing team is broken
- Author: Leah Messenger
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A Guide to Public Speaking For Software Engineers
- Author: Jordan Cutler
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A Guide to the 6 Open Source Governance Models
- Author: Steve Cooper
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- Author: Srushtika Neelakantam
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- Author: Dave McClure
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API Reliability Report 2026: Uptime Patterns Across 215+ Services
- Author: Shibley Burnett
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- Author: Aja Hammerly
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Announcing our Developer Journey Map FigJam Template
- Author: DevRel.Agency
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Avoiding the DevRel ROI Trap with Better Strategic Alignment
- Author: Petr Švihlík
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Back to Basics: How to DevRel without Travel
- Author: Jess West
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Best Pitches/Demos of All Time
- Author: Shawn \
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Beyond the Hype: 5 Takeaways on the Future of Building with AI | Wizeline
- Author: Andy Eyherabide
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Building Your Internal Army — DevRelCon London Follow Up
- Author: Amara Graham
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CRIBS: My Writing Feedback Formula
- Author: David Perell
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Churn is the quiet SaaS killer
- Author: Ben Cotton
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Community Engagement: Key for Developers
- Author: Nimrod Kramer
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Company Context: The Conditions That Shape DevRel Strategy
- Author: Chris Reddington
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Consistency, Persistence and Feedback: Francesco Ciulla on the Essential Aspects of Content Creation
- Author: Maria Kaźmierczyk
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Content Strategy for DevRel Teams: A Primer
- Author: Stephanie Morillo
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Creating effective technical documentation
- Author: Dipika Bhattacharya
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Customer Experience: The Reliability metric that matters
- Author: Spiros Economakis
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DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment)
- Author: Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
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Decoding 2024: Insights from Developer Relations Leaders
- Author: DevRel.Agency
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Decoding Developer Relations in a Blog
- Author: Manbir Singh Marwah
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- Author: Phil Leggetter
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DevRel Engineer One: Building a Developer Relations Team from The Ground Up
- Author: Dave Nugent
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DevRel Thoughts, Observations, & Ideas
- Author: Adron Hall
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- Author: DevRel Uni
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DevRel Without Physical Conferences
- Author: Ben Greenberg
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DevRel and community building with the Golden Ratio
- Author: Hayley Denbraver
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- Author: Shawn Wang (swyx)
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DevRel is like coffee.. and other profundities.
- Author: Jeremy Meiss
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DevRel metrics and why they matter
- Author: Sean Falconer
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- Author: Pachi Carlson
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Developer Advocacy: Frequently Asked Questions
- Author: Dustin Ingram
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Developer Advocates — DevRelCarousels #3
- Author: Yashovardhan Agrawal
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Developer Communities and Why Your Company Should Care
- Author: Jeremy Meiss
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Developer Content Strategies That Work (and Scale)
- Author: Karl Hughes
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Developer Evangelism And Coding Jokes With Steven Cooper
- Author: Sam Jarman
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Developer Evangelists - DevRelCarousels #4
- Author: Yashovardhan Agrawal
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Developer Relations + Product - DevRelCarousels #5
- Author: Yashovardhan Agrawal
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Developer Relations Career Guide: Skills, Path & Insights 2025
- Author: Karl Hughes
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Developer Relations at Camunda - 2018 Recap
- Author: Bernd Ruecker
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Developer Relations: A Five-Level Maturity Model
- Author: Michael Mahemoff
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Developer Relations: online events and content series
- Author: Max Katz
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Developer marketing KPIs are different from DevRel KPIs
- Author: SlashData
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Developer-First GTM Strategy: How to Win with APIs
- Author: Amol Ghemud
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Effective Developer Advocacy for Highly-Technical Projects
- Author: Chris Trag
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Essential CLI/TUI Tools for Developers
- Author: Alex Pliutau
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- Author: Shawn \
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Fly Less, Write More: the future of Developer Relations, and maybe, well, everything else
- Author: James Governor
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Following Cooking Recipes Makes You a Clearer Writer
- Author: Amara Graham
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From Staff Technical Writer to Developer Advocate; Read Amruta Ranade’s story
- Author: Amruta Ranade
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Getting Through Awkwardness in Networking
- Author: Wesley Faulkner
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- Author: GitHub
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Heart or Mind? Community or Business? The DevRel Paradox
- Author: Akhil Sharma
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Hello, I am a Developer Advocate
- Author: Joel Marcey
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How AI is changing developer relations
- Author: Jennifer Tran
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How AI is shaping the future of developer relations and developer workflows
- Author: ATO Team
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How Community Builders Can Bring Existing Offline Communities Online
- Author: Yashraj Nayak
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- Author: John Papa
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- Author: Jakob Nielsen
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How and why I use online alpha-readers while writing novels.
- Author: Mary Robinette Kowal
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How to Build a Thriving Open Source Community
- Author: Jono Bacon
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How to Measure ROI on Developer Marketing Campaigns
- Author: Alex Carter
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How to Prove DevRel ROI: Metrics That Matter
- Author: Mindy Faieta
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How to Write Technical Tutorials That Developers Actually Use
- Author: Karl Hughes
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How to accelerate developer onboarding (and why it matters)
- Author: George Kichukov
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How to create developer content that actually gets read
- Author: Jen Wike Huger
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How to explain object-oriented programming concepts to a 6-year-old
- Author: Alexander Petkov
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How to measure Developer Relations
- Author: Max Katz
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How to overcome cultural & language differences and scale a DevRel program
- Author: Elisha Tan
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How to start Platform Engineering practice to improve Developer Experience
- Author: Kapil Gupta
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How to write a blog post: The four-drafts method
- Author: Amruta Ranade
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How to write a good software design doc
- Author: Angela Zhang
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How to write a successful conference proposal
- Author: Karolina Szczur
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How to write a successful conference proposal
- Author: Dave Cheney
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I am a developer evangelist - AmAA
- Author: Rob Spectre
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- Author: Amara Graham
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- Author: Thorsten Ball
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Kyoto Tech Meetup links for March 19, 2026
- Author: Ash Ryan Arnwine
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Let's Talk About DevRel Metrics
- Author: Jeremy Meiss
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Level up your developer experience
- Author: Sunit Parekh and Pramida Tumma
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Managing Time as a Developer Advocate (Without Losing Your Mind)
- Author: Sam Julien
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Mastodon Is Better than Twitter: Elevator Pitch
- Author: CodeSections
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- Author: Swyx
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Measuring Success and KPIs in Developer Relations - Community Contributed Outline
- Author: Tessa Mero
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Measuring the Commercial ROI of DEVREL
- Author: Scarf
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Measuring the Impact of Developer Advocacy Efforts
- Author: Folasayo Samuel Olayemi
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My 10 guiding principles for open source community management
- Author: Florian Effenberger
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My Current Go-To AI Tools for Developers
- Author: The DevRel Collective
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- Author: Wesley Faulkner
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My long, winding road to DevRel
- Author: Jeremy Meiss
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My very own perspective on the DevRel scenery
- Author: Hans-Peter Grahsl
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PI: A coding agent that can hold a conversation
- Author: Mario Zechner
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Paved Paths Leading the Way to Compliance
- Author: Kasper Borg Nissen & Brian Nielsen
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Platform engineering tools you NEED to know in 2026
- Author: Mallory Haigh
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Public Speaking for Developers
- Author: Yauhen Zaremba
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Quarterly Release Notes, March 2021: Beacon Identify Changes, Messages Editor Updates, and More!
- Author: Alex Eaton
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Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering
- Author: Matthew Hodgkins
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- Author: Lokesh Gupta
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- Author: Raycast
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ReadMe vs. GitBook: Which is the Best API Documentation Tool in 2026?
- Author: Justina Nguyen
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Reflections on 20 years of software engineering, including 11 at Google
- Author: Gergely Orosz
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SEO best practices for documentation
- Author: Adam Altman
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SPACES Model: The Framework for Defining Your Community’s Business Value
- Author: David Spinks
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Salma’s non-traditional journey into tech and DevRel
- Author: Salma Alam-Naylor
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Seven Months Later: My Developer Advocacy Journey So Far
- Author: Bradston Henry
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Silly Startups, Serious Signals: How to Use Custom Metrics to Measure Domain-Specific AI Success
- Author: Erin Mikail Staples
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- Author: Redocly
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- Author: Amy Hoy & Alex Hillman
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State of the Global Workplace Report
- Author: Gallup
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Storytelling On Stage: The Basics
- Author: Kris Brandow
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Strategies for building a successful Community
- Author: Yash Sharma
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- Author: Carolyn Van Slyck
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- Author: James Governor
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Technical Content Marketing: A 7-Step Strategy
- Author: Ren Taylor
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Technology is not Everything: Non-Technical Aspects to Consider for Open Source Projects
- Author: Hong
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- Author: Nicole Lazzaro
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The Accidental Public Speaker or How I Got Over My Fear of Public Speaking
- Author: Alex Lakatos
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The Camunda Developer Relations Career Path
- Author: Mary Thengvall
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The Death of Developer Relations
- Author: Lee Briggs
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The Hidden Cost of “We’ll Fix It Later”
- Author: Spiros Economakis
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The Key Metrics Behind Developer-Led API Growth
- Author: Art Anthony
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- Author: swyx
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The Rise of Developer Experience
- Author: HelloSign
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence In Developer Relations
- Author: Favour Abada
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The Subtle Art of Being A Developer Advocate
- Author: Wassim Chegham
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The Ultimate DevRel Guide To Travel
- Author: Luke Oliff
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The future of software is bespoke
- Author: Tim Benniks
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The road to being a kick-ass public speaker
- Author: Chris Heilmann
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Tips for speaking to college students about DevRel
- Author: Alvaro Navarro
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To Virtual Conference or To Not... That is the question
- Author: Jess West
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Top Developer Advocacy Tools 2024
- Author: Nimrod Kramer
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Turn Your Release Notes Into a Content Marketing Machine
- Author: Sami Linnanvuo
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Using AI for content creation: Dos and don'ts
- Author: Leah Messenger
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- Author: Vercel
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Want to be better at vibe coding? Become a better coder
- Author: Tim Benniks
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- Author: Jerry Neumann
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Developer Advocacy
- Author: Chris Trag
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- Author: Marc Brooker
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- Author: Ashley Willis
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- Author: Sidney Maestre
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What the heck is a Developer Advocate?
- Author: Wassim Chegham
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- Author: Max Katz
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Why Developer Advocacy programs should consider working with partners
- Author: Max Katz
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Why Do We Pay These People Anyway?
- Author: Reto Meier
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Why Generic AI Evaluation Fails (and How Custom Metrics Unlock Real-World Impact)
- Author: Erin Mikail Staples
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- Author: Mike Bostock
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Why smaller, more private communities are thriving
- Author: Scott Wheelwright
Video channels dedicated to different areas of DevRel:
- Ant Wilson on experimenting with marketing channels
- Bukola
- CMX Hub
- CMX Hub - YouTube Channel
- Cassidy Williams - YouTube Channel
- DThompsonDev
- DX Podcast - YouTube Channel
- DerRel Folks - YouTube Channel
- Dev Rel
- Dev Rel - YouTube Channel
- DevRel Asia - YouTube Channel
- DevRel Russia - YouTube Channel
- DevRel.Events - YouTube Channel
- Eddie Jaoude - YouTube Channel
- Fireship - YouTube Channel
- GraphQL Foundation YouTube Channel
- Maya Bello
- Scaling DevTools - YouTube Channel
- Tech with Tim
- Temi Olukoko
- The Secret Sauce (OpenSauced)
- Theo - t3.gg
- Travis Media - YouTube Channel
- daily.dev - The Monthly Dev
- goose-oss - Livestreams
- swyx (Shawn Wang) - YouTube Channel
Individual videos about DevRel:
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Activating the DevRel Flywheel to Create Lasting Results
- Author: DevRelCon
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Adam Frankl on being an expert on the problem, not the solution
- Author: Adam Frankl
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- Author: Android Developers
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Astro Starlight Documentation Template (build custom app docs!)
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Building a Video-First PLG Strategy That Outperforms
- Author: DevRelCon
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Can DevRel Be Your First Role?
- Author: DevRelCon Bengaluru
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Coming to you live: inclusive, effective, fun live-streaming for devrel
- Author: Carmen Huidobro
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Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt
- Author: Y Combinator
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- Author: DevRelCon
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- Author: DevRelCon
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Developer Advocate Plays Devil's Advocate: Platform Engineering Edition (KubeCon)
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Developer Marketing at Auth0 with Gonto
- Author: DeveloperRelations.com
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Developers on YouTube | Mewtru
- Author: OpenSauced
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Developers' Guide to Getting Started with Accessibility Testing
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Docs, LLMs, agents - using AI to create a content feedback loop
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Four big lessons from 120 DevTools interviews
- Author: Scaling DevTools
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- Author: Rebecca Marshburn
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Getting Started In DevRel: Talking with Edith Puclla From Percona
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Groundwork Episode 29 - Building Twitter's Developer Ecosystem
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Guerilla Event Planning at Bigger Conferences
- Author: Xe Iaso
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How game development gave me a head start in my DevRel career
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How to Build and Deliver Compelling Technical Demos
- Author: Ron Northcutt
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How to Market Yourself as a Dev with swyx
- Author: ReactEurope
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How to Solve Internal Technical Documentation at Spotify
- Author: Gary Niemen
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How to Write the Perfect CFP (With or Without AI)
- Author: Moran Weber
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- Author: Eddie Jaoude
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- Author: OpenSauced
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Learn in Public: Personal Branding & Career Marketing for Developers
- Author: Shawn Wang (swyx)
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Let's Discuss: Developer Relations - Twitter Spaces
- Author: Colby Fayock
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Leveraging on-chain use cases for DevRel in the blockchain space
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Localizing DevRel: How India's unique ecosystem demands distinct strategies
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Material for MkDocs: Full Tutorial To Build And Deploy Your Docs
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Open Source Influencers | create-t3-app
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React and Databasing: Basics of IBM Cloudant NoSQL DB
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Reconciling Impressive AI Benchmark Performance with Limited Developer Productivity Impacts
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Red Hat OpenShift 1001: What is Red Hat OpenShift and Why Does it Matter?
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Scaling DevRel Internationally
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Shifting to Online Community: The Future of DevRel
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Storytelling for Technical People: Communicating Technical Ideas More Clearly
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Strategies for Enterprise Growth through Developer Ecosystems
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Tactics For Staying Productive and Hopeful in Tough DevRel Times
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The Launch of GitHub Copilot - Developer Marketing Stories
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The defensibility and value in developer community
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What is a Developer Advocate? How to Succeed in this Fast-Growing Tech Career
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What is a Facebook Open Source Developer Advocate?
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What makes a developer program successful? Answers from Developer Program Leaders Survey
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What’s the ROI of Developer Relations?
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Why Most Quick Start Guides Flop and How to Write a Great One
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Why is Kubernetes everywhere? | Kelsey Hightower
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Writing effective documentation
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Writing newsletters and sharing content that developers will enjoy
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[Slashdata Webinar] Segmenting Developers into personas
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[Webinar Recording] Developer personas and psychographics
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Organizing and Running Successful Hackathons
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When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?
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- A community-driven newsletter delivering the most engaged developer stories from the daily.dev feed as a concise, high-signal digest.
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Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy Podcast
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- Author: Reo.Dev
- Unpacks DevRel's impact on pipeline and revenue with practical insights.
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- Author: Matthew Revell & Carmen Huidobro
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- Author: DevRelX
- Formerly 'Under the Hood of Developer Marketing', this podcast covers developer marketing insights, developer population data, and industry trends.
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- Podcast featuring stories from developer advocates about their journeys
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- Author: Jack Bridger
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2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
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- Annual survey covering technologies used, work, and AI impact on development.
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- Author: Caroline Lewko & DevRel.Agency
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State of Developer Experience Report 2024
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- Report on the state of developer experience based on a survey of developers and managers.
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The State of Developer Ecosystem 2024
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5 Best Practices for Building Effective Internal Developer Portals
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Building an Internal Developer Portal: Insights from the Journey So Far
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- A platform that teaches coding through games, making learning Python and JavaScript interactive and engaging.
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- A platform that makes learning to code fun and interactive through a gamified experience.
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- A documentation platform that helps create, manage, and publish help documentation for developer products.
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GitHub - langgenius/dify: Production-ready platform for agentic workflow development. · GitHub
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The Best API Documentation Tool
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fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder
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- A simple terminal UI for git commands that allows you to easily add files, commit, and push, as well as view logs and diffs.
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Documenting APIs: A guide for technical writers and engineers
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A review of DevRel job titles and career progression
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A straightforward guide to improving developer experience
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AI is accelerating my technical writing output, and other observations
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AI-assisted engineering: How AI is transforming software development
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API Authorization 101: Who Can Do What?
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Announcing Version 1.0 - A2A Protocol
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Building DevRel Copilot: A Technical Deep Dive into AI-Powered Developer Relations
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Community Health Scorecards: Metrics for Enterprise Forums ... - Bevy
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- A step-by-step guide to becoming a Developer Advocate, covering key concepts, skills, and career development.
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DevRel and AI: A Department Lead's Self-Evaluation One Year In
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Guidelines for Online Communities and Social Media
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How AI Code Assistants Can Save 1,000 Years of Developer Time
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Navigating Community Engagement Metrics in Developer Communities
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Personal Branding for Developers – A Step by Step Handbook
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Postman Best Practices for Flows
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The 2021 CMX Community Industry Report
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The Guide to Andrej Karpathy's Autoresearch
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The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right
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The Ultimate Guide to Platform Engineering 2025
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The complete developer marketing guide (2026 edition)
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The complete guide to organizing a successful hackathon
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The ultimate guide to developer experience
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The ultimate guide to effective developer events
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To prevent toxicity, design games with community management in mind
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Ultimate Guide To Developer Community Growth
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Virtual events vs. in-person events: Which is right for your business?
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