Developer Relations isn’t new, but it’s also broad, ill-defined, and constantly evolving. It’s difficult to keep your own skills up to date, never mind coping with a whole team full of people and constantly creeping industry scope. …

I’ve been gushing about docs-as-code, but realised that I haven’t shared many hands-on tips for actually building different types of sites in this sort of toolchain. I’ve been mostly using Sphinx which generates much better-looking documentation than its website suggests. It’s a python-based static site generator, with a thriving community…

I work in Developer Relations for a very technical company (Aiven), and I usually describe my job as half explaining my employer’s technology to developers, and half explaining developers to my employers. However in the last year or so, I’ve realised that there is a variation on this theme that…

I’m working almost entirely with docs-as-code setups for prose at work these days and while I do use vim for most of what I do, VSCode is increasingly in the mix. …

What happened to my blog? Nothing happened, I still blog … except then I looked at my site the other day and realised, it’s been a while. The blog here at lornajane.net is mumble years old. It is full of things I wanted to write down, and tells the story…

Our mission at Aiven is to make developers’ lives better. Today I’d like to share our new tool that makes Laravel developers’ lives better by adding some helpful functionality to their projects. Laravel is the most popular PHP framework in use today, and is usually backed by either MySQL or…

What immediately strikes me about M3 is how it is designed to fit in alongside the other tools in a likely architecture. It has interfaces to match the ones we already know and love from Prometheus and InfluxDB. The integration with Grafana is also seamless. It’s as if M3 is…

How do I ensure that I keep my attendees’ attention when I’m presenting virtually? I don’t. I have seen a few tactics for holding people’s attention during virtual events. One is to require everyone present to perform a particular action such as typing a message or clicking an icon, several…

Time series data can be defined as a collection of data points or measurements taken at different times (as opposed to data about many objects concerning a single point in time). So structurally, time series data shares many characteristics with event streams. In this article, we will go through some…