Life of a Developer Advocate: Tech Skills, Conferences, & Content Creation- VUE 223

Aug 22, 2023

Erik Hanchett, Engineer at Amazon Web Services, discusses transitioning between projects, the rise of developer advocates, measuring the ROI of advocacy efforts, and the value of learning multiple programming languages. They also explore Elixir and Erlang for real-time distributed systems, Superbase as an alternative to Firebase, Phoenix Live View, and their experiences at the Vue conference in Toronto in 2019.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Exploring Elixir and Erlang for Real-Time Distributed Systems

02:13 • 3min

Exploring Superbase and Transitioning to Elixir

04:51 • 11min

Differences between compiled and scripted languages, Phoenix Live View, and co-stream.app

16:07 • 26min

Reflections on Vue Conference 2019

42:03 • 20min

Dad Jokes and DJ Mixers

01:02:29 • 5min

Fires, TV Shows, and Potential Strikes

01:07:30 • 6min