Developer evangelism

k-Factor analysis of Developer Communities

K-Factor is a technique used by social media applications to model the growth rate. In this post we'll look at how we can use K-Factor to reason about developer community growth and develop

Make them famous

There’s a class of engineers who in addition to coding, like to present ideas to others. This presentation may be in the form of blog posts, conference talks, open source projects or

MongoDB

Community support - how to help a growing community

When MongoDB was getting started, there were lots of people trying to use our database and running into questions or problems. As discussed in my previous post about getting apps to mission critical,

Developer evangelism

The million dollar minute

I heard this phrase from a friend at New Relic. "Developers form their opinion about your tool in the first 60 seconds of digging into it" she said. If they like what they

Open source strategy

Shelf space strategy for marketing developer tools

When you build a new developer tool (a database, an AI/ML framework, a devops tool, etc...), you have to figure out how to make developers aware of it and start using it