Learn about Quantum, Knative, Blockchain and NLP – watch July 2019 online meetup recordings

IBM Developer SF team hosts weekly online meetups on various topics. Online events are one of the best ways to scale your Developer Relations program and reach developers anywhere, anytime and for a long time after the event.

The following online meetups we hosted in July 2019 with links to watch the recordings.  I also encourage you to join our meetup so you will always know when our online meetups are scheduled. Our meetups are hosted by the wonderful Lisa Jung 👋.

⭐️ A moderator using NLP, VR and Serverless (July 10, 2019) 

In this online meetup with Upkar Lidder developers learned:

  • Natural Language Understanding: how to detect different sentiments and emotions in text sent in Slack channels
  • Visual Recognition: how to detect offensive images sent in Slack channels
  • Apache OpenWhisk: how to glue together different pieces and create a complete application

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SF DevRel meetup at MuleSoft – what I learned and notes

On July 29, 2019 I attended the SF DevRel meetup at MuleSoft. The meetup was held at the Salesforce Tower. Jordan Schuetz and Sabrina Marechal from MuleSoft gave an overview of MuleSoft’s Developer Relations program. The following are my notes and what I learned. Based on what I learned, MuleSoft has an excellent Developer Advocacy team and program 👏.

Sabrina is sharing how she built and mananges MuleSoft community
Nicolas is starting the meetup
Jordan is sharing contet strategy and metrics

Note: I highlighted (bold) their best approaches, in my opinion.

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Serverless Developer Summit in 10 pictures

IBM Developer SF hosted another full-day event: Serverless Developer Summit. Over 110 technologist spent a day learning about the Serverless ecosystem from 10 speakers from 10 companies.

We also tried something new at this summit (our two other summits are AI/ML summit and Blockchain summit). We hosted a hands-on workshop before the main talks. We created three self-paced serverless tutorials that people can complete in under 10 minutes. As people would come in, they would take a printed tutorial handout (two or all three of them) and go and code them. It’s a great way to get some hands-on training. We of course had Developer Advocates to answer any questions.

OK, the pictures.

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Dave Nugent is starting the summit (top). Hands-on workshop before the main talks (bottom)

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Interesting content ideas you may consider

Content is usually one of the core components of most Developer Relations programs. Technical content such as tutorials, how-to’s, articles is a great way to scale your program. Previously I shared how one piece of content can help you create more content and also where to publish content. In this blog post I will share interesting content ideas that you may consider beyond the standard tutorial or a how-to.

You will learn about the following content ideas:

  • Notes or summary from a conference, meetup
  • Event in 10 pictures
  • Links to series of articles
  • Links to previous month video recordings

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Code, Content and Community

IBM Developer’s philosophy to working with developers is: Code, Content and Community.

Earlier this year I did a short presentation on this topic and how we work with developers at SFHTML 5 meetup in San Francisco. You can watch the 5-minute video below.

 

1-day developer education event: Serverless Developer Summit

IBM Developer SF is hosting another 1-day developer education event: Serverless Developer Summit.  Check out the awesome speaker lineup below, learn about the talks and register for the summit.

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We hosted two other 1-day events in May and June with huge success.  Check them out and pictures:

AI & ML Developer Summit (pictures)

Blockchain Developer Summit (pictures)

Where to publish content?

There are plenty of web sites where you can publish content. But, what’s the best place? Well, I’m not a fan of “best” anything. Your “best” is up to you, what works for you, based on your requirements and will be different for everyone. In this blog post I will share my recommendations where to publish content and you can use them to decide (or not) where to publish.

I wanted to publish this article for some time and also because of recent controversy with Medium. You can read about it here and here.

There are many web sites where you can publish content. This is just a short list of web sites:

  • Medium (plus various Medium publications)
  • Devada (formerly Dzone)
  • Dev.to
  • LinkedIn (Publishing platform)
  • InfoQ
  • Personal blog
  • Work blog
  • and many others…

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Serverless, Kafka, Blockchain and Tensorflow.js – June 2019 online meetup recordings

IBM Developer SF team hosts weekly online meetups on various topics. Online events are one of the best ways to scale your Developer Relations program and reach developers anywhere, anytime and for a long time after the event.

The following online meetups we hosted in June 2019 with links to watch the recordings.  I also encourage you to join our meetup so you will always know when our online meetups are scheduled. Our meetups are hosted by the wonderful Lisa Jung 👋.

💡Build serverless applications with Swift, Docker, and Kafka (June 1, 2019) 

In this online meetup with Marek Sadowski developers learned:

  • Who are the players in the serverless ecosystem?
  • What are some use cases for serverless solutions – with using a Docker as the Polyglot action
  • Best practices for the serverless architecture for Message Oriented Middleware events
  • Whether going serverless is really faster, better, cheaper for developers and organizations
  • Live coding examples using Swift, iOS, Docker, Kafka

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Blockchain Developer Summit in 10 pictures

Last week we hosted another 1-day developer education event: Blockchain Developer Summit (our previous event is here and here). The event was a huge success with over 140 technologists in attendance. Here are 10 pictures (or more) from the event.

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Upker Lidder from IBM Developer SF is starting the summit

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Notes from DevRelCon SF 2019

I attended DevRelCon in San Francisco on June 6-7. It was a superb event, with great speakers and awesome community. The following are my notes (not complete sentences) and pictures from the event.

Being Better At Developer Relations with Kathy Sierra’s ‘The Kick Ass Curve’

Steve Pousty (CrunchyData)

  • Steve’s talk focused on how to be better at Developer Relations. Steve demonstrated this concept using Kathy Sierra’s “The Kick Ass Curve”
  • You can find his slides here
  • DevRel goal
    • Make users happy and successful with your product/service
  • Get users to be awesome in the least possible time

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    Developer Relations success curve
  • Different companies can have different curves
    • Background knowledge and experience of users (don’t control)
    • Quality of documentation and teaching material (control)
    • The actual design of the product/API (control)
    • The size and helpfulness of your community
  • We often disagree with Product Managers and Engineers because PMs and Engineers think they are at a different place on the curve. PM and Engineers are familiar with the service/product and usually don’t experience “learning” about the service/product like outside developers
    PMs on the curve
    Engineers on the curve
  • Summary
    • Think about the audience (who you are targeting and how to get the pas the suck zone ASAP)
    • If we can’t get people out o the suck zone before they give up – we will never get them to experience power
    • Remember, when “talking” to others, to think about where they are on the curve
    • Use the curve when it helps, ignore it when it is doesn’t

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