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Developer, Advocate!

By : Geertjan Wielenga
Book Image

Developer, Advocate!

By: Geertjan Wielenga

Overview of this book

What exactly is a developer advocate, and how do they connect developers and companies around the world? Why is the area of developer relations set to explode? Can anybody with a passion for tech become a developer advocate? What are the keys to success on a global scale? How does a developer advocate maintain authenticity when balancing the needs of their company and their tech community? What are the hot topics in areas including Java, JavaScript, "tech for good," artificial intelligence, blockchain, the cloud, and open source? These are just a few of the questions addressed by developer advocate and author Geertjan Wielenga in Developer, Advocate!. 32 of the industry's most prominent developer advocates, from companies including Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, open up about what it's like to turn a lifelong passion for knowledge sharing about tech into a rewarding career. These advocates run the gamut from working at large software vendors to small start-ups, along with independent developer advocates who work within organizations or for themselves. In Developer, Advocate!, readers will see how developer advocates are actively changing the world, not only for developers, but for individuals and companies navigating the fast-changing tech landscape. More importantly, Developer, Advocate! serves as a rallying cry to inspire and motivate tech enthusiasts and burgeoning developer advocates to get started and take their first steps within their tech community.
Table of Contents (36 chapters)
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index
36
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Ray Tsang: Mostly, I just follow Twitter. Sometimes I do check Hacker News and some mailing lists as well. As a Java Champion, I get to see the mailing lists there. I also read other Java-oriented mailing lists to see what new things are being considered or worked on, and those are very useful.

I personally find some of the developer surveys to be really awesome, at least for understanding the landscape.

Of course, every one of them will be slightly different, but in the greater scheme of things, it just helps with understanding a little bit of the current trends.

There are other things that are getting popular, like serverless and machine learning, but I think that at the end of the day, there are always these practical problems that we all have to solve.

"We have to go beyond just always chasing the latest thing."

—Ray Tsang

I spoke to Bruno Borges and he has this idea of going back to the basics, which are things that have...