DevXcon 2017

4 June 2018 to 22 May 2017

Galvanize SOMA, San Francisco, USA

For the second edition of DevRelCon San Francisco, we took a change of direction to focus more heavily on developer experience alongside the usual DevRel topics.

Talks from DevXcon 2017

Building positive developer support experiences

Building positive developer support experiences

Supporting the developers who use your API is a major part of the overall developer experience.

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A CEO's perspective on dev rel, dev experience and ROI

A CEO's perspective on dev rel, dev experience and ROI

Making sure organisations get value from their money is a central priority of any CEO.

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Creating and nurturing developer community advocates

Creating and nurturing developer community advocates

How to create and manage champion, ambassador, and MVP-style programmes for developer communities.

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Docs at Weaveworks DX: from open source to SaaS and beyond

Docs at Weaveworks DX: from open source to SaaS and beyond

Weaveworks' transition from open source to open source + SaaS has had an impact on how it structures and presents its documentation.

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We don't learn alone

We don't learn alone

Anil and Jenn propose collaborative teaching of API and developer-targeted products.

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Eight tips for API design: Romain Huet at DevXcon

Eight tips for API design: Romain Huet at DevXcon

Stripe's eight tips for building great API experiences.

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Get discovered with creative developer content

Get discovered with creative developer content

Tomomi shares her experience and advice for creating compelling developer content to help spread awareness of your product.

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Gloriously global: running global dev rel teams

Gloriously global: running global dev rel teams

Grace Francisco covers the challenges and rewards of running a global developer relations team.

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How to grow and use a strong community

How to grow and use a strong community

Branch cultivated a Mobile Marketing Meetup community with more than 20,000 mobile app developers.

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Making SDKs: the bespoke, the hopeful, and the generated

Making SDKs: the bespoke, the hopeful, and the generated

Drawing on Square's experience of creating SDKs for their APIs.

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Measuring the health of open source communities

Measuring the health of open source communities

Building healthy communities isn't about flashy dashboards—it's about measuring what actually shapes behavior.

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How much influence do developers really have?

How much influence do developers really have?

Donnie Berkholz looks at evidence from his years as an industry analyst to find an answer to how much influence developers really have.

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Proving developer community value to your boss

Proving developer community value to your boss

Jesse Davis started out as a developer but these days he's an executive at DZone Software. He shares how to prove your community's value.

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Reeling in big fish: enterprise expectations for developer experience

Reeling in big fish: enterprise expectations for developer experience

Jenny describes the challenges unique to developer experience in enterprise companies.

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How to scale community support for APIs

How to scale community support for APIs

Discover how Algolia scales developer support by harnessing community power, turning challenges into collaborative opportunities.

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Supporting beginners: growing developers while growing your API

Supporting beginners: growing developers while growing your API

Erin describe how Workdnik have supported and incentivised beginner developers working with the Wordnik API.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Developer Onboarding

The Seven Deadly Sins of Developer Onboarding

Cristiano exposes the common pitfalls in developer onboarding, offering insights on overcoming these frustrating challenges.

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How user research can improve the developer experience

How user research can improve the developer experience

How do we bridge the gap, and provide a better developer experience for all developers?

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Which metrics matter?

Which metrics matter?

DevRel is awash with data – from daily users to twitter followers, conversion events to customer value – but which measures are the most important?

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Who are your developers and how to (re)engage them

Who are your developers and how to (re)engage them

Reigniting Dropbox's developer programme led to a rethinking of how they engage with their developer community.

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You've got a code of conduct, now what?

You've got a code of conduct, now what?

A framework for evaluating the right level of response to a CoC violation.

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