Impact of DevRel and Content Creation with Kapehe on Web Rush #207

Kapehe joins us to talk about her role in developer relations. What does developer relations mean? How does Dev Rel go back to the Product team? Where does video work best for dev rel? And how to deal with criticism of dev rel knowledge.

Direct link to the episode.

const podcast = { 
  episode: 207,
  title: 'Impact of DevRel and Content Creation',
  topics: [ 
    'devrel', 'developers', 'customer support'
  ],
  guest: 'Kapehe'
  hosts: [
    'Craig Shoemaker', 'John Papa', 'Ward Bell'
  ]
};

Recording date: October 6, 2022

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Kapehe @kapehe_ok

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• Narwhal

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Resources:

• Kapehe’s blog
• Kapehe’s YouTube channel
• Sanity.io
• The Battle of House Promises vs House Observables with Kapehe
• What the heck is a developer advocate?
• Query Language for Sanity (GROQ)
• GROQ in 2 video series
• RXJS

Timejumps

• 00:32 Topic introduction
• 01:04 Creating content
• 02:49 Guest introduction
• 05:49 What does developer relations mean to you?
• 07:18 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 07:50 How does Dev Rel go back to the Product team?
• 15:03 Where does video work best for dev rel?
• 19:34 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 20:36 The difference between a presentation vs a workshop?
• 22:33 How does dev rel not become a shill for the company?
• 27:21 Dealing with criticism of dev rel knowledge
• 33:10 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.