{"id":6306,"date":"2025-06-24T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:25:38","slug":"what-is-developer-advocacy-2025-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/what-is-developer-advocacy-2025-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Developer Advocacy? (2025 Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I thought Ashley Willis did an excellent job explaining the role in <a href=\"https:\/\/ashley.dev\/posts\/what-is-developer-advocacy\/\">What Is Developer Advocacy? (2025 Edition)<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We\u2019re still here to serve developers. And we\u2019re still doing the messy, meaningful work of bridging the gap between what a company\u00a0<em>thinks<\/em>\u00a0developers want and what developers actually need.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked the perspective that it&#8217;s actually better for a developer advocate to be a little removed from day to day development at the company itself: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8230; our value often comes because we\u2019re not too close to the implementation. We can see the experience from a developer\u2019s point of view. We notice when onboarding is confusing, when SDKs are missing critical examples, when the documentation skips the \u201chard but honest\u201d parts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/remotesynthesis.com\/blog\/your-devrel-questions-answered\/\">Some Q&amp;A from Brian Rinaldi<\/a> on the topic is interesting as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Ashley Willis did an excellent job explaining the role in What Is Developer Advocacy? (2025 Edition). We\u2019re still here to serve developers. And we\u2019re still doing the messy, meaningful work of bridging the gap between what a company\u00a0thinks\u00a0developers want and what developers actually need. I liked the perspective that it&#8217;s actually better for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[359,22],"class_list":["post-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-devrel","tag-job-hunting"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pexels-photo-1181275.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1255&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}