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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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If you don't want to be a conference speaker

Tim Berglund: Yes, certainly on my team there is. I've got a member of my team who doesn't like speaking and doesn't like being in front of people. She's an amazingly high performer.

My view of the evangelist role is that at meetups and conferences, this is a performance role, but you also have to deliver content that's useful. On my team, we have a content person. What she does, for example, is take different parts of the open-source stack that we've built, and even parts of the enterprise product, and say, "These things are supposed to work together. Product marketing says this works this way. Let me try and build something that does that."

This is amazingly valuable work because we can find out that the product doesn't work, so we need to fix that. We can also find out that the product works well and create content around that.

Geertjan Wielenga: Is the variation of tasks part of what you...