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Archived content from my time in developer relations at IBM, covering cloud, AI, serverless, and open source technologies, roughly 2018-2021.
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My teammate Upkar Lidder published a great tutorial on how to create your first serverless function very fast ⚡️. I wanted to give it a try and share the step with you here. There is nothing to download, install or configure. You can finish this tutorial in under 10 minutes ⏳. Tutorial steps You will complete…
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IBM Developer SF is hosting a 1-day developer education event: Blockchain Developer Summit on Friday, June 21 in Galvanize, San Francisco. Check out the amazing speakers, their talks and register to attend. We hosted a 1-day AI/ML Developer Summit in early May and it was a huge success. You can read more about it here…
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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 April 2019 with links to watch the recordings. I also…
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On May 10th, 2019 we hosted our first 1-day event AI & ML Developer Summit with over 150 in attendance. As this was IBM Developer SF first full-day event, I want to share a few things we did that worked well and made the event successful. You can also view pictures from the event. One-page…
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On Friday, May 10 IBM Developer SF hosted its first full-day event: AI & ML Developer Summit. The event was a great success. We had over 350 RSVPs, 150 people attending and 11 speakers from six companies (Twilio, Uber, Bose, Optimizely, Antilips, IBM). Here is the event in 10 (or more) pictures.
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This week I attended my very first Google I/O conference. I was there only one day, for the product and developer keynotes. It was a lot of fun and an awesome experience. Here is my day at Google I/O 2019 in ten pictures.
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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 April 2019 with links to watch the recordings. I also…
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IBM Developer SF is hosting a 1-day AI & ML Developer Summit with super awesome speakers. Check out the schedule and join us.
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At the end of March I attended the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in San Mateo. Overall it was a great conference 🥑. I took notes and pictures and want to share them with you here. Just a heads up, these are my notes mostly in bulleted list format, of things that I think I…
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IBM Developer SF team hosts weekly online meetups on various topics. Online events is 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 the month of March with links to watch the recordings. …
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Using online meetups to scale your Developer Relations program #DevRel
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This week I attended Evans Data Developer Relations Conference held in San Mateo. It was a great conference with great speakers. I took a lot of notes and will publish a separate blog post about the conference. For now, here are 10 pictures from the conference.
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If you are in Developer Relations space then hosting and speaking at events is probably a big part of your job. There are of many type of events that developers go to: meetups, workshops, conferences, online meetups/webinars, Lunch & Learn events, panels and others. Metrics is the holy grail in Developer Relations. One type of a…
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In the context of Developer Relations, a Lunch & Learn event is a lunchtime developer education event. It’s very similar to an evening meetup but hosted during the lunch hour. While a meetup can have different formats (hands-on, lecture, panel, etc), this particular event has a lecture-style format. Developers come to the event, get to…
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If you have been doing Developer Advocacy for some time, it’s very likely you heard this question: “So, how does your solution compare to <insert_competitor_solution>” This is probably not a question of if (if someone will ask but) but a question of when. This question can be asked at a conference, meetup, workshop, an online…
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One of the goals of many developer advocacy programs is to reach more new developers. One approach that I leveraged when I was at Appery.io and we leverage even more at IBM Developer is working with partners. In this blog post I want to share a few reasons why working partners has benefits. We work…
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A big part of many developer advocacy programs is content. Content can be in the form of tutorials, blog posts, videos and hands-on workshops and other forms. Coming up with content ideas is not always easy. In this blog post I’m going to share some ideas how to simplify content creation. The IBM Developer SF…
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I did a Q&A with Matthew Revell from Hoopy on Developer Advocacy. Matthew: Tell me about your role at IBM. Max: I joined IBM about a year and a half ago and work in the Developer Advocacy organization. I lead a wonderful team of Developer Advocates and we cover the North America West region. The…
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Last week Marek Sadowski and I presented Introduction to Serverless with IBM Cloud Functions: a new way to build modern apps at Silicon Valley JUG. One of the questions from the audience was how do you take an existing large enterprise Java application and migrate it to serverless architecture? The short answer is you probably shouldn’t do…
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When you start with serverless you will very soon learn/hear about functions cold start (I believe serverless = cloud functions + APIs). A cold start happens when a cloud function is invoked for the first time or after a long time of no invocations. Basically, it takes the server (yes – there are servers!) a little…
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Curious about serverless/function-as-a-service/cloud functions technologies, but haven’t had a chance to dig in? Wondering what all the excitement is about? Serverless doesn’t mean no servers. It’s a new way to build modern applications. Watch this video to learn more about this new approach to building modern applications. The video covers: The current state of the…
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If you search for “serverless” you find that serverless is a new popular way to build modern applications. Is serverless really new? Serverless refers to the notion that you don’t need to worry about servers – you don’t need to provision, deploy, maintain servers. Obviously there are servers but you don’t need to think or…
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Four weeks ago (this week) I attended the Serverlessconf in San Francisco. The following are my notes, observations, opinions and pictures from the conference (in no particular order). Serverless Awesome 😎 Serverless is awesome because: Build apps faster Development focused Serverless architecture offers the most productivity and agility Never think about servers Never think about…
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In my previous blog post I showed how to invoke an external REST API from a cloud function. The API that I used returns a random (Chuck Norris 💪) joke. In this blog post I want to show you to how pass a parameter to the cloud function. We can pass a joke number to…
