Alex Patterson, the creator of CodingCat.dev and Developer Relations Engineer at FusionAuth, joins us to talk about the future of authentication. Alex educates me on Passkey and WebAuthN and explains how your mom won’t need to remember her password in the future. Alex also shares how Fusion Auth improves its developer onboarding through community, content, and product. FusionAuth CodingCat.dev Brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠APIMatic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ APIMatic SDKs are used by millions of developers. Auto-generate SDKs with idiomatic libraries, language specific documentation,  ..read more

Adam DuVander, author and founder of Every Developer joins the podcast to discuss how to rate your developer experience using his DX Index, the importance of providing a path from your homepage to developer resources and ways to attract new developers. He also shares a story of a company who found themselves with the wrong developers on their site. ⁠Every Developer⁠ Brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠APIMatic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ APIMatic SDKs are used by millions of developers. Auto-generate SDKs with idiomatic libraries, language specific documentation, dynamic code samples and gett ..read more

Amara Graham leads the developer experience team at Cumunda where they own documentation and devtools for their evolving platform. She shares the challenges of hiring for her developer experience team and we dive into the question of how to measure successful documentation. Brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠APIMatic⁠⁠⁠⁠ APIMatic SDKs are used by millions of developers. Auto-generate SDKs with idiomatic libraries, language specific documentation, dynamic code samples and getting started guides from your API definition ..read more

Byrne Reese, Product Owner at RingCentral shares how he transitioned from engineering into product management and his love of building engaged and collaborative communities. He believes documentation is an investment in the long-term success of your community. We also dive into his developer pyramid as a model for companies looking to build up a developer community. RingCentral Developer Portal Developer Pyramid: A Tool for Building Developer Programs Brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠APIMatic⁠⁠⁠ APIMatic SDKs are used by millions of developers. Auto-generate SDKs with idiomatic librari ..read more

Caroline Lewko, author and co-founder of devrel.agency joins me to discuss audience segmentation and building personas and the value of understanding the developer journey. We touch on external vs internal DX and Caroline shares when a C-Level DevRel role makes sense. Developer Journey Map DevRel.Agency 10th Annual State of Developer Survey Brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠APIMatic⁠⁠⁠ APIMatic SDKs are used by millions of developers. Auto-generate SDKs with idiomatic libraries, language specific documentation, dynamic code samples and getting started guides from your AP ..read more

Developer Experience Engineer, Steve Pousty from VMWare joins the podcast. Steve has over 17 years of experience working with developer communities. In our interview, we touched on many topics including the pros and cons of placing developer-facing roles within traditional teams like engineering, marketing and support. Steve shares advice on how to handle the overlap of responsibilities between DevRel and marketing by applying the rule “Clear boundaries, infinite possibilities”. Brought to you by ⁠APIMatic⁠ APIMatic SDKs are used by millions of developers. Auto-generate SDKs wi ..read more

Senior software engineer at Lob, Benny Kitchell sat down with us to talk about moving from hand written SDKs to auto generated client libraries and documentation using OpenAPI Generator. Benny shares some tips for those getting started with code generation. He also shares his philosophy around testing. We wrap up with a few dev tool recommendations. Brought to you by ⁠APIMatic⁠ APIMatic SDKs are used by millions of developers. Auto-generate SDKs with idiomatic libraries, language specific documentation, dynamic code samples and getting started guides from yo ..read more

VP Developer Relations at JP Morgan, Kody O’Connell joins the podcast. We talk about his time at Xero, Optimizely and how he’s improving the DX at JP Morgan. We discuss the article by Kurt Kempel titled Redefining Developer Experience, Why DX is the New DevRel. Then we wrap up with a lightning round where Kody answers the question as we exit the COVID pandemic: are large developer conferences overrated or underrated in 2023? Brought to you by APIMatic APIMatic SDKs are used by millions of developers. Auto-generate SDKs with idiomatic libraries, language specific docum ..read more

Phil Leggetter who’s built developer experiences at Pusher, Nexmo, Vonage, Ably and most recently Tigris Data joined me to share his thoughts on documentation. What does good documentation look like and are we ready to make the move towards great documentation? When I asked Phil to place DX on a maturity timeline, he responded that  developer experience is at the young adult stage, then reminded me that a lifecycle metaphor involves a “rebirth”. Adding the next iteration of developer experience needs to be a rebirth that incorporates AI technology and a change in the way de ..read more

Luke Kilpatrick, developer marketing leader joins us and discusses the importance of building trust with developers. We touch on the two competing definitions of developer experience we see today and some of the tools internal developer experience teams use. Luke cautions against placing demand generation metrics on your developer relations team and offers advice when joining a new company and building internal relationships ..read more