Starting a series on a decade in software engineering and developer relations - from enterprise engineering at Oracle and Nissan to growing the Freshworks marketplace to 10,000+ developers.
How an early architecture assumption about customer data across nine global business units nearly broke trust with regional teams - and the platform we built to fix it for good.
The exact strategy behind growing the Freshworks marketplace developer community from 0 to 10,000+ developers - real tactics, real numbers, real lessons.
The real documentation rebuilds behind the Freshworks Developer Portal and Bazaarvoice's Developer Console and API Gateway - what separated docs nobody read from docs that actually drove adoption.
After a decade across engineering and Developer Relations, I'm calling BS on the biggest myths in our industry. These misconceptions are holding back great developers and ruining companies' developer strategies.
Developer counts and API call volume look great in a slide deck. Here's the measurement methodology I actually use - grounded in real revenue, cost, and adoption numbers from Freshworks, Nissan, Bazaarvoice, and Oracle - to separate what looks good from what a business can act on.