Community
A practical measurement model for developer community programmes: four metric families, how to define them, and how to report them without overclaiming.
Notes from operating the system
Practical writing on developer relations, community programs, technical content, and education. Written by people who run these programs, for people who fund them.
How to put a voice front end on a project you already run: the three parts of a custom skill, the two ways to host it on AWS, the commands that build and test it, and why the skill should stay a thin adapter over your own API.
Community
Each community platform sets a different tone before a single message is posted. What Discourse, Discord, Slack and LinkedIn each do well, what killed the forum, and how to run the one you choose.
Developer advocacy
Developer advocacy gets budgeted like a marketing line item and measured like a hobby. Here is the operating model that makes it a growth system instead.
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