As a Principal Developer Advocate, you don’t own the roadmap, control the pipeline, set budgets, or dictate campaigns—yet your work influences all of them. Your impact isn’t measured by code written but by friction removed, momentum created, and voices amplified.| Dewan's Blog
In August 2024, we pulled off the first-ever DevOpsDays Halifax, and wow, what an experience! As one of the organizers, I’ve got a ton of stories, lessons learned, and tips to share. Whether you’re looking to host your own DevOpsDays or just thinking about organizing any tech event, this blog’s for you. From planning to community building, there’s a lot here that can help you on your journey, no matter the type of event you’re aiming to create.| Dewan’s Blog
Do you identify yourself as a developer advocate?| Dewan's Blog
Today I’m joining Harness as a Principal Developer Advocate. Harness is a complete software delivery platform whose mission is to enable the 30M+ software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly. Joining Harness is a significant milestone in my professional career and I’m excited to tell you a bit more in this blog.| Dewan's Blog
I’m looking for a job in $SomeField. Do you know of any open positions?| Dewan's Blog
The installation process for the PostgreSQL client, psql, may vary depending on your operating system. Here are the general steps for some popular operating systems:| Dewan's Blog
Are you trying to find your first job in IT? Are you trying to switch to a better (paying) tech job? If you have tried to reach out to a professional on LinkedIn for networking, you know that the response rate is often very low. In this blog, I’ll tell you a story of a secret job board that most don’t know of. Rising from the ashes after the pandemic, meetups are the best places to find your next tech job. In this blog, the terms “meetup” and “tech meetup” are used interchangeably.| Dewan's Blog
Who writes the developer documentation for your product? During the early days of my tech career, I worked on a database replication product at IBM. My immediate team had developers and testers but not a single technical writer. I can speak for myself when I say that I never bothered to know who keeps writing the lengthy and complex documentation for every release. Since then, many companies in tech (including companies like IBM) have taken a modern approach to documentation. This “moderniz...| Dewan's Blog
I don’t have a technical background, so I’m looking to apply for a project manager, product owner, or developer advocate type of role.| Dewan's Blog
If you’ve used grep to search for text or patterns in files, you’ll love ripgrep - a command-line utility tool written in Rust. By default, ripgrep will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip hidden files/directories and binary files. ripgrep is grep on steroids. It’s super fast for searching patterns within single files and huge directories of files. In this blog, I’ll help you get started with using ripgrep and hope it’ll help you become more productive on the command-line.| Dewan's Blog