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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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Index
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Winning the fight in companies

Bruno Borges: The fight happened in the first place because executive teams were not aware or not educated enough about the benefits of having a developer relations team.

Without that knowledge, they couldn't make a decision about whether it was important to fund developer advocacy within companies.

Now, as we see, developer relations is everywhere. I think it's just a matter of time before executives who previously had doubts catch up with the market. We're going to see developer relations being covered as a formalized extra structure within companies, just like engineering, product management, business operations, and so on.

We're at the bottom of a big hill of adoption of the developer relations discipline within companies. I think this area will explode in the next few years, simply because the major companies are connecting with developers. As I mentioned earlier, even companies that are not traditionally from the IT industry are adopting...