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1. Terrific book! I wish I had this 5 years ago!
   TL;DR this is a fantastic book that I am recommending to anyone that will listen. A perfect balance of outlining the issues for Developer Relations, putting those issues into the right context in your company, practical / actionable advice, and sprinkled with field interviews that back up all of the points.Background: About 5 years ago, I left academia (research computing, large scale genomics data) and into industry with the mission to move the field to leverage the cloud more. Needless to say, their were no guideposts and by necessity we made made things up as we went along. A lot of mistakes were made, but we learned from those and kept at it. Eventually our group closely resembled what this book describes as a Developer Advocate group, but with a larger component of outbound market development activities. I am very proud of the work we did and largely we succeeded in transforming the genomics community to embrace cloud, which allows for every scientist, not just those at leading institutions with $$$$ to have world-class HPC centers, to work with petabytes of data and make novel discoveries.One item that we never tackled well, however, was engaging the internal stakeholders to convince them that our core mission of shaping and growing the market were valuable in and of themselves, and we kept getting measured by direct sales contributions, or confused as pre-sales engineers. Needless to say, the group was underwent about 4 re-orgs during my time there and eventually I left the team, which was shortly disbanded after that.The practical advice and the language used in this book would have saved us a lot of pain if we could have clearly communicated the business value of a group like ours to the broader business. Personally, reading the book allowed me some self-reflection and a framework to analyze just what went wrong, and how I can structure my initiatives in the future. I am already implementing some of the guidance and can already see the difference in understanding in the new group I am a part of now.So thanks for the book! I just wish I had it 5 years ago 😉

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2. If you’re a DevRel – read this book
   This is a fantastic resource for anyone who is interested in, or working in DevRel. Though I’ve been building communities for decades in the music industry and technology industry, I recently accepted my first DevRel job. This book has been a wonderful read full of information on people, groups and organizations to connect with to move you ahead in your DevRel position. I’ll be recommending it to everyone on my team and the DevRel’s I’ll be connecting with to help each other grow our communities.

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3. Perfect for those that are just starting…
   If you’re thrown into a situation where you suddenly need to manage a community, the lessons and advice in this book clearly come from years of having boots on the ground in the Developer Community space.I can see where more seasoned professionals might find the information too general (the last chapter is pretty universally applicable), but I wouldn’t discount the book for that.If I had any advice for future readers, I would follow an option suggested by the author: use the book by reading chapters that are applicable in the moment. Read those chapters slow, take notes, and then come back to the next one when you need to answer those questions or build out that function. And you can do that completely out of order.

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4. DevRel Bible
   Yes, it finally landed. This is the most important book on DevRel written so far. It covers the why, the what, and the how to get started, how to go around and how to improve if you already doing it. Since I got it (a month ago) I recommended it to a dozen colleagues as the definite answer for a very broad range of questions.And now to the crux of the biscuit – chapter 4. Yes, this is the answer on “how do you measure this thing?!”. No silver bullets, no magic solutions, but a great analysis on what can help. Brilliant!

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5. A must-read for all people intersted in DevRel
   A great source of actionable insights for anyone working with tech communities on an everyday basis. A must-read for all people intersted in DevRel, but also packed with ideas for marketing and product professionals. Compelling and useful, which is a rare combination 👌

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6. If you are even thinking about DevRel you NEED this book.
   This is THE book for developer relations and should be required reading for anyone thinking of setting up a DevRel program

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7. Simple and grounded
   It takes you through all the elements of a Dev Community: internal and external stuff. Real stories and cases from existing communities.It’s more about the personal experience and perspective, not about a more general truth. Keeps things grounded in the basics of building a community.

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8. Nothing special on DevRel, apart of multiple usage of DevRel to give a lot of importance. Developers, DevRel, Developer Relations, Multiple teams, coordination between teams, company success is your success, work closely with customers — these are the most commonly used words to give importance to the writing. It just elevates a specific department without a grounds up context — I can replace DevRel with Marketing and I’ll not find much difference in how I read the book. Too costly for a book, could have been better in the form of multiple blogs.

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9. I give most books away. The only books I keep are those which I expect to reread often and those which I frequently use for reference. This book is both.I often use this book when a question comes up and I don’t know where to start. The table of contents is your friend. Read it a few times and know where you can jump to for help.A big part of the value here is experience. This book collects solid experience and best practice to help you not reinvent the wheel as much as possible.I can’t emphasize enough, this book is worth my investment in time spent reading. So much gratitude to the author, Mary, and everyone who contributed to this work! 💯

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10. Já li diversos livros sobre o tema e este, com certeza, esta nos Top #3. Com um ingles muito fácil de ler, fácil de entender, sem muitas siglas e, quando tem, são bem explicadas. Ilustra com casos reais todos os tópicos, levanta discussões muito importantes, como Burnout e Sindrome do Impostor, e também como combatê-las e evitá-las.O Apêndice do livro também é um repositório de conteúdos a parte, muito úteis e auto explicativos.Se você trabalha ou pretende trabalhar na área, esse livro é indispensável na sua biblioteca!

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