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Developer, Advocate!

By : Geertjan Wielenga
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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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Trisha's areas of interest

Geertjan Wielenga: What would you say you are really passionate about at the moment in terms of tech?

Trisha Gee: I actually don't think I'm extremely passionate about tech. I'm really excited to see how fast Java is moving at the moment with the six-monthly release cadence. I think that's really cool because in many ways, it's going to make everything less exciting around the releases and it will be less exciting to see new features. It's just going to become normal, and I like that.

What I'm really passionate about is around the people side of being a developer. I write stuff about code reviews for our other product that I do advocacy for, which is Upsource, our code review tool. I don't really talk that much about Upsource as a tool. I talk more about how to talk to other developers about improving their code. I talk about what good code is or isn't. Essentially, it depends on the other developers, on the domain...