Hey there! Thank you for writing this. We now have a one-click deployable Flask example included in our documentation , as well as Django and a simple Python API.

Nah, the impact of your work is more important than your Twitter following! Especially if you're working at a company that will then amplify your work. Steph on my team had a few hundred followers when I hired her. The quality of her work spoke for itself 😁

The future of Next.js is at the Edge and will be made possible by React Server Components .

I wrote about my career journey as well as my promotion into Head of DevRel on my blog. Agile 😂 I don't miss spending mental cycles on sprint planning, backlog grooming, retros, or any of that other stuff I did as a product engineer.

Sounds simple, but take time off to recharge! And importantly work at a company that supports you through this. It depends 😁 I don't like saying you need to have prior programming experience to do DevRel, but at the same time, it's critical you understand the content you're talking about. Same as above ^ To be honest... I don't think it matters much! Whether you report into product or marketing, what really matters is what metrics you track and hold yourself and your team accountable for. If these are more product-focused, then you're likely doing more product work. There's a negative stigma to developer marketing, but if done right, it's exactly what folks want. See quote below . But, DevRel (or a larger DevExp) can't be all marketing. It's important to be the alpha/beta testers of new features or products and be willing to give unfiltered feedback to the product/engineering teams before the general public. Marketing doesn’t have to feel gross. Sharing what you’re working on, writing about the behind-the-scenes process, and documenting hard problems you’ve solved is all marketing, and people are excited to see that sort of stuff, not put off by it. Build stuff! I still code quite a bit. Start today 😁 Write a blog, create a video, or create some content and put it online. Then do it again tomorrow. Keep it up for a month... and you already have a portfolio of content ready for a job interview.

Hey! Right now, we're focused entirely on the web. That could change in the future, but as of today we're laser focused there 😁

Figure out which field you want to specialize in (e.g. web development) and then start building a programming portfolio .

I would learn JavaScript and start building websites, then! https://beginnerjavascript.com/

Nah, it's not a requirement. There's quite a few people at Vercel without a university degree, including our CEO. In general industry-wide, folks with a degree have higher pay. I think that's starting to normalize, though.

Hey! It's a great time to learn :) I'd recommend trying to build some JavaScript and React applications. Also, start thinking about how you learn best .