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How to influence people to prioritize the developer experience

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Website vector created by stories — www.freepik.com In developer relations, we are often a cross-functional team, sometimes seen as a support and amplification mechanism for core teams like engineering and product. A “nice to have”, but not necessarily required component for program success. Personally, I am not comfortable being considered “nice to have”, so how do we change that? We...

Why care about the developer experience?

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  The developer frustration curve Imagine you’re a developer working at Opentech Corp tasked with adding payment support to your company’s product. You start by doing research on payment processing solutions in order to make a recommendation. You first try out payment processing company XYZ Processing because you’ve seen them around for a long time and you know it’s used by other companies...

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