Monica Powell // Newsela
Brag now, remember later: Document your accomplishments
In Part Four of her series, Monica shows how you are in a unique position to be your best advocate.
Shared learnings from leaders in the open source community
Software development should be accessible for both novices and seasoned professionals alike. From trending topics and technologies to best-practices, community contributions empower us to learn from experts and build better, together.
John Allspaw // Adaptive Capacity Labs
What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’
It’s a lot more nuanced than you might think.
Juan Pablo Buriticá
The good, the bad, and the ugly of making decisions in open source
Using RFCs to support decision-making when working in public.
Jon Parise // Pinterest
Knowing when to say 'no'
Recognize which contributions are a good fit for the project—and which are not.
Monica Powell // Newsela
Your future self will thank you: Building your personal documentation
In Part Three of this series, Monica explains how to build a second brain of knowledge you’ll use over and over.
Scott Triglia // Stripe
Using ‘Roofshots’ to make impossible decisions
A developer superpower to tackle complicated projects.
Monica Powell // Newsela
How to hone your new superpower: teaching
In part two of Monica's series on the value of documentation, she discusses the mindset, process and benefits of public documentation.
James Turnbull // Sotheby's
Optimize local dev environments for better onboarding
Empower your new engineers to hit the ground running.
Tasha Drew // VMware
Charming Pirates: Reframing user acquisition and referral for OSS
A proposal for strategically growing open source project maintainership.
Monica Powell // Newsela
Using code as documentation to save time and share context
In part one of her series, Monica shares how to do documentation to help yourself and others.
Anthony Sottile // Stripe
Code review is too late for code quality
Let the computers fight the style war so you can focus on what really matters.
Melanie Ensign // Discernible
Effective communication is not about what you say
How to craft the messages people need to hear to get the right results.
Colby Fayock // Applitools
Overcoming human error with code automation and testing
From linting to deployment, here’s how to use automation to cut back grunt work and maximize fun.
David Noël-Romas // Stripe
Time management for makers
As makers, software engineers should adopt these seven essential habits.
Cassidy Williams // Netlify
Get your first software developer job
Tips, tricks, and general advice for how to get in the door in tech.
Jerome Hardaway // Vets Who Code
Teaching in public with GitHub
Uplift others by sharing your knowledge.
Kevin Riggle
How to write an internal production failure incident communication
What do you say when the system is down?
Angie Jones // Applitools
Demystifying developer advocacy
A seasoned developer advocate's answers to the most common DevRel FAQs.
Joe Lust // mabl
Walking the walk: bringing end-to-end automation and testing to internal teams
On creating streamlined workflows and a seamless developer experience with built-in CI/CD.
Austin Hemmelgarn // Netdata
Connected by collaboration: unifying DevOps and open source
On building a developer-first release process for all: remote teams, enterprise users, and the open source community.
Kevin Mo // Front
Boosting speed and scalability with continuous deployments
Why building fast means balancing risk and practicality—from infrastructure migration to project management.
George Swan // Autodesk
Transforming productivity with a ‘whole product’ CI/CD pipeline
How a shift towards innersource and shared best practices unified teams on a single DevOps pipeline.
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