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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
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Burnout in the industry

Trisha Gee: For me, it's the difference between being externally motivated versus being internally motivated. If you're sitting at a job and your boss is telling you that you need to get all this stuff done for the release, which is next week, and you just don't have enough hours to do it in, and that happens again and again, then you end up burning out.

I think it's also possible to get burnout when you're driving your own goals. I definitely see this in some of the developer advocates around me because there is variety in what we do, but there are just so many things to do. People like us are very passionate and very driven, so we just want to be doing the next thing all the time.

"I've seen people faint on stage because they were working too hard."

—Trisha Gee

I think probably one of the reasons why more of us don't experience burnout is because, generally, advocates are a bit more senior and maybe...