DevRel Technology

How to Create more Effective Developer Content

Let’s say you create developer content for a living. In that case, chances are that you work in one of those fancy jobs titles like Developer Advocacy, Community Management, Product Technical Marketing, Program Management, and many others. Regardless of your title, what is essential is for you to apply effectiveness to your content, which means …

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Elastic Go

Boosting your Tests with Elasticsearch using TestContainers-Go

TestContainers is a popular framework that allows Java developers to create tests that depend on backend systems such as Elasticsearch. It automatically creates a container instance for the said backend, preventing developers from manually spinning up their dependency instances. Also, it enables them to treat those instances as disposable, meaning that once the tests finish …

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DevRel

The Best Advice New Developer Advocates Should Follow

There is no denying that the demand for developer advocacy is peaking. Everywhere I go, I can see a huge demand for developer advocates, and this is awesome because this is the career that I chose for myself. But other than this, it is also proof that companies finally realize the value of improving developer …

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DevRel Tools

Using Stream Deck with Fedora

I have lost count of how many times I had to apply workarounds in my Fedora laptop to use certain devices. For all of you that had to go down the same path, you know the feeling of hopelessness. The reason why I never get tired of helping people with the challenges I have. This …

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Cloud Elastic OpenTelemetry

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry using Elastic APM

OpenTelemetry is an observability framework that provides the libraries, agents, and other components that you need to capture telemetry from your services so that you can better observe, manage, and debug them. It allows you to capture metrics, distributed traces, resource metadata, and logs (logging support is incubating now) from your backend and client applications …

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