As CEO of Revere Communications, Caroline Lewko focuses on training and mentoring the next generation of DevRel leaders. In this post, she shares an excerpt from her book [_Developer Relations: How to Build and Grow a Successful Developer Program_](https://www.devrelbook.com/). | Continue reading
In episode 25 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Nick Santos of Tilt, a toolkit for microservice development. They discuss developer productivity, the difference between build systems and dev environments, and the evolution of Tilt. | Continue reading
In episode 11 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke of Spotify. They discuss the origins and the roadmap of the CNCF project Backstage, and unpack the complexities of building developer portals. | Continue reading
In episode 5 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell is joined by Michael Bridgen of Weaveworks. They unpack Flux, the GitOps operator for Kubernetes, as well as GitOps adoption and progressive delivery. | Continue reading
In episode 18 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Miguel Ángel Ajo and Stephen Kitt of Red Hat. They discuss the CNCF sandbox project Submariner and how it’s solving multi-cluster networking. | Continue reading
In this DevGuild: Software-Defined Movements finale, our panelists discuss how companies with vibrant developer communities become category leaders. | Continue reading
Connie Kwan describes the four levels of product managers, and how orgs can use this hierarchy of product needs to find the right product leader. | Continue reading
Since 2015, we've launched 18 podcasts with a combined 350+ episodes. If you’re considering starting a show and are looking for tips on ensuring ROI, read on to learn more about our best practices. | Continue reading
In this Speaker Series, panelists from HashiCorp, LaunchDarkly, Moesif, and Orbit discuss how DevRel teams are adjusting to the shift to online community. | Continue reading
Next47 Partner and sales expert Micah Smurthwaite and Next47's Director, Global GTM, Wikings Machado, share a guide to starting a successful channel sales program. | Continue reading
In this Speaker Series presentation, Michael Dearing provides an overview of models to help your team write, think and problem-solve, including the Minto Pyramid Principle. | Continue reading
Adam Gross shares his framework for self-serve go-to-market strategy, and how developer and enterprise startups can gain early adoption, land, and expand. | Continue reading
TruSTAR's Lianna Catino discusses negotiating marketing priorities in the earliest stages of a company, how to keep your marketing team agile, and why internal communications are key. | Continue reading
Explore some practical solutions you can employ to help keep your open-source projects relevant & growing while taking the burden off the core contributors. | Continue reading
In part three of our series on Collaborating with DevRel, we dig into opportunities for product and DevRel teams to work together. | Continue reading
Gitlab CEO Sij Sijbrandij weighs the pros & cons of various commerical open source business strategies, including Gitlab's choice of buyer-based open core. | Continue reading
In the latest episode of To Be Continuous, Edith and Paul examine how monetization approaches vary depending on the developer market you’re in. | Continue reading
In episode 47 of JAMstack Radio, Brian joins Andrew Sprouse, Co-Founder and CTO of TakeShape. They discuss the lesson-laden founding story of TakeShape, and how an accessible JAMstack community empowers developers to explore new tools. | Continue reading
Heavybit is launching its Venture Fund to expand upon its 9-month accelerator for Series Seed and Series A developer and enterprise companies. | Continue reading
Founders often mistake messaging as a marketing exercise to be done in a single session. Instead, it's something that the entire founding team should work through and internalize. It's basically the source of truth on what you do. | Continue reading
In episode 11 of Demuxed, Matt, Steve and Phil are joined by Jeremy Brown, video solutions architect at Seven West Media, to discuss hybrid broadband TV, server side advertising, and how the video services marketplace in Australia differs from the US. | Continue reading
In episode 38 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks with J.C. Hiatt, Founder of DevLifts. They cover front end frameworks in the JAMstack, scaling up an ultra-lean business, and even developer fitness. | Continue reading
In episode 28 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Jason Chan of Netflix to discuss simplifying the security process for software developers, as well as some of the open source projects Netflix has shared with the community. | Continue reading
For any founder, particularly technical founders who are closer to the code than non-technical founders, hiring the first Product Manager is risky business. Read this post from Product Expert Connie Kwan for insight into making the right move. | Continue reading
On March 1st, we hosted our first Show & Tell of 2016. These Show & Tell events are an opportunity for our members to share recent releases, launches, partnerships, integrations and case studies. | Continue reading
As we reflect here at Heavybit on everything that happened this year in the developer tools ecosystem, I identified a set of emergent trends that I expect to increasingly dominate the discussion in 2019. | Continue reading
In episode 3 of High Leverage, Joe speaks with Grant Miller, Replicated founder and creator of EnterpriseReady, on how companies are taking a new approach to running third-party applications. | Continue reading
Join HashiCorp CEO Mitchell Hashimoto, Heptio Co-founder Joe Beda and LaunchDarkly CEO Edith Harbaugh as they discuss the impact of architecture on a company’s deployment options, and their visions of the future of deployment. | Continue reading
In episode 7 of O11ycast, Charity is joined by fellow Honeycomb team member Michael Wilde along with Asana's heads of engineering and tech, Cliff Chang and Phips Peter, to discuss how observability has shaped their organizations. | Continue reading
In this post Connie Kwan outlines non-monetary incentive design for platform marketplace owners. Sometimes it’s simple, both Inventory and Buyer sides want monetary exchange. But sometimes it’s not, the Buyer side is willing to pay, but the Inventory side isn’t motivated by money … | Continue reading
Join the CTOs Kimber Lockhart from One Medical, Ralph Gootee from PlanGrid, and Valentino Volonghi from AdRoll, for our DevGuild finale panel discussion on navigating enterprise needs. | Continue reading
Before you sell to the enterprise, you need to BUILD for the enterprise. On October 11th, 2018, 200+ founders, CISOs, CPOs, and product leaders gathered to learn and discuss the baseline features required to deliver Enterprise-Ready Products. | Continue reading
In this talk, Jason gives guidance on the Top 10 mistakes getting from 0-$100M in ARR. He includes examples from RainforestQA and a case study featuring Algolia founder Nicolas Dessaigne. | Continue reading
In episode 2 of EnterpriseReady, Grant chats with Tom Preston-Werner about how the open source company he co-founded, GitHub, rose up to become an essential coding resource for developers everywhere. | Continue reading
In episode 21 of The Secure Developer, Guy meets with Julie Tsai, Head of Security for the RealReal, to discuss ways to manage secure systems and bridge the gap between security and DevOps. | Continue reading
In episode 6 of O11ycast, Charity and Rachel talk to Google developer advocate Liz Fong-Jones about ways to build systems to be more transparent and explainable. | Continue reading
In this episode Grant interviews Adam Jacob, founder and CTO of Chef. Adam has been building Chef for over 10 years and during that time he has learned a LOT about how to deliver software that enterprises love. He has an incredible perspective and we were so glad to have him as o … | Continue reading
In this Speaker Series presentation, ReadMe founder and CEO Greg Koberger talks about the importance of having good documentation for your business. | Continue reading
In episode of 5 O11ycast, Rachel and Charity speak with Anton Chuvakin, Research VP at Gartner for Technical Professionals, about the ways modern companies make, or don't make, decisions around security. | Continue reading
This Blockdaemon hosted panel "A Developer's View Into Blockchain Network Architecture" looks at blockchain through a devtools lens. The group focuses on topics including decentralization and technical debt. Hear from experts at Coinbase, Stellar, Hyperledger, Blockdaemon and Ori … | Continue reading
In this Heavybit presentation, a panel of founders explain how to transition your company from founder-led sales to a well-oiled growth machine. | Continue reading
In this Heavybit Speaker Series presentation, Brian Douglas, GitHub developer advocate explains how to effectively onboard developers to your service, product or platform. | Continue reading
In episode 4 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity ask Adam Jacob, co-founder and CTO of Chef, how the culture of DevOps has evolved both for system administrators and the companies they help build. | Continue reading
In episode 46 of To Be Continuous, Paul and Edith discuss Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. Is it a good thing? What will be the impact of such a massive deal on companies and developers in the devtools space? | Continue reading
In episode 3 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity are joined by Paul Biggar, co-founder and CTO of Dark as well as founder of CircleCI, to discuss how microservices and automation have shaped the developer landscape. | Continue reading
In episode 18 of Venture Confidential, Aligned Partners' Jodi Sherman Jahic stops by the Heavybit studio to discuss what kind of companies and portfolios she invests in and what capital efficiency should mean for startups. | Continue reading
The Heavybit community is proud to count some of the top operators from GitHub and Microsoft as active members and advisors. Over the years we've partnered with these folks to share their learnings with our member companies at Speaker Series events, in our podcast studio, and on … | Continue reading
In episode 17 of The Secure Developer, Guy meets up with Adrian Colyer, Venture Partner at Accel and author of The Morning Paper, a daily recap of academic articles in computer science. The pair investigates how researchers are discovering new side-channel attacks and vulnerabili … | Continue reading