Liz Acosta articles - 29 total
A New Era of Code Quality: Beyond bugs and into legal license compliance and risk management
In the interconnected world of software, few applications are conjured into existence entirely from...
A New Era of Code Quality: Beyond bugs to supply chain security and dependency health
In today’s interconnected software landscape, most applications don’t just spring up from thin air....
Passing the Vibe Check: Navigating the changing development landscape
In February 2025, OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” on social media. In...
Code That Won’t Cost You: Coding best practices for any language to increase code quality and reduce developer toil
Bad code is not only hard to read, it can cause expensive incidents. According to the Uptime...
The DevRel Digest February 2025: DevRel You Should Know for 2025
In November and December of 2023, I didn’t know what to write about for the DevRel Digest. When I...
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Tests With Fixtures
Okay so I really just wanted to reference Daft Punk. With their December 2024 limited re-release...
The DevRel Digest November 2024: If You Content It, They Will Come
Content for a dream DevRel content program According to the 2024 State of DevRel report,...
If this resonates with you, then you might like working with me
Me and Gary dressed up as Wednesday and Pugsley Addams for Halloween -- get it?! Let's...
Build an AI-Powered Anomaly Detection Application for E-Commerce Analytics
Learn how AI can be used to prevent stricter buyer return policies This cookbook recipe...
Nominate a "DevRel You Should Know" for 2025
November 2023, I featured a list of DevRel You Should Know nominated by the Developer Relations...
DevRel v3.0: Return of the Developer Advocate
From Apple to Twilio and beyond: What are the questions this latest iteration of Developer Relations should be asking?
Developer Relations and the Hero’s Journey
“So how does someone with a film degree end up working in tech?” The story of developer relations and the hero’s journey.
The DevRel Digest August 2024: Choose Your Own Adventure Documentation
What a developer wants, what a developer needs One of the things I love most about my work...
The DevRel Digest July 2024: Content That Developers Won't Be Allergic To
Writing for developers When I was a much younger human, I dreamed of being a professional...
The DevRel Digest June 2024: One Whole Year of the DevRel Digest
Happy first birthday to the DevRel Digest! One year ago, I decided to start writing the...
The DevRel Digest May 2024: Documentation and the Developer Journey
A bump in the road of my own journey I confess – a lot has been going on in my life...
Mock It Till You Make It: Mocking in Python's unittest
Something a little different Remember when I was job searching and I would have given...
The DevRel Digest March 2024: Must Be the Season of the Queen
A Season of Wands It’s been more than a month at my new job and I continue to feel...
The DevRel Digest February 2024: The DevRel Renaissance
The DevRel Renaissance: A Star is (Re)born The subject line of the latest issue of Avocado...
DevRel Discussion
Happy Monday to those who celebrate! 😂 This week's DevRel Discussion is a fun one: What is...
The DevRel Digest January 2024: DevRel and Dev Marketing and No More Random Acts of Content!
When the Wheel of Fortune Sets Its Sights on You In tarot, the Wheel of Fortune is the...
DevRel Discussions
A theme I've noticed in DevRel is the discussion about what kind of role AI will play in the practice...
The DevRel Digest December 2023: DevRel You Should Know Part Two and Reflections on 2023
2023 Was Not the Year I Was Expecting The first time I said this was 2016. I spent that...
Comparing CodiumAI PR-Agent to Copilot for Pull Request
The Power of Collaboration in Code and the Role of Pull Requests in...
The DevRel Digest November 2023: DevRel You Should Know Part One and Why I Will Never, Ever Leave Developer Relations
Why I Will Never, Ever Leave Developer Relations As I’ve mentioned in previous editions of...
Nominate a "DevRel You Should Know" for 2024
Y'all I can't believe we are mid-November already! Time sure does fly when you are ... job-seeking?...
The DevRel Digest October 2023: The State of Developer Relations in 2023 and What’s in Store for 2024 (Hint: It Includes AI)
The State of the State of Developer Relations The 10th(!) Annual State of Developer...
Using Python’s Built-in Tools for Unit Test Parameterization: A closer look at unittest's subTest()
The unglamorous side of engineering: Testing I recently had the pleasure of presenting a...
The DevRel Digest September 2023: Developer Relations and The Abyss
Hello! The DevRel Digest is a monthly collection of news, observations, and thoughts about Developer...