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I Stopped Checking My Mentions Dashboard. Now an Agent Drafts the Replies.
Every monitoring tool sells you the same thing. A dashboard. You open it, you scroll, you promise...
Tessa Kriesel4 min read
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Tessa Kriesel
Building Built for Devs, leading GTM at Tabstack (by Mozilla) and likely doing some other cool stuff with code and AI
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Tessa Kriesel4 min read
#ai#automation#devops
How I Deployed Hermes Agent on Railway with Telegram (And Every Gotcha I Hit Along the Way)
TL;DR for the skimmers Hermes is NousResearch's self-improving AI agent...
Tessa Kriesel12 min read
#api#tools#devrel
How to Measure Time-to-Value for Your API (Without a Data Team or Custom Analytics Build)
You don't know your TTV. I'm willing to bet on it. Not because you're not tracking things. You...
Tessa Kriesel4 min read
#startup#tools#devrel
Stop asking developers what they think. Watch what they do.
Ask a developer how your onboarding went and they'll probably say it was fine. Maybe a little long....
Tessa Kriesel4 min read
#startup#tooling#devrel
Why Developers Aren't Coming Back After Their First Session
You've fixed the tutorial. You've cleaned up the docs. You've killed the bugs early users reported....
Tessa Kriesel4 min read
#startup#tooling#devrel
The 3 Signals That Tell You Whether to Rebuild or Improve Your Dev Tool Onboarding
Most teams are having the wrong argument. The debate isn't "should we rebuild"—it's whether you've...
Tessa Kriesel6 min read
#api#tooling#devrel
Why Developers Drop Off Before Their First API Call (And How to Fix It)
You've watched developers sign up, poke around, and disappear—all before making a single API call....
Tessa Kriesel6 min read
#startup#tooling#devrel
Developer Journey Map: 5 Stages to Reduce Dev Churn
You've fixed your docs. Added a quickstart. Shipped features based on feedback. And retention is...
Tessa Kriesel3 min read
#startup#tooling#devrel
Feature Roadmaps Don't Drive Market Fit—Positive Experiences Do
Every founder obsesses over their feature roadmap. But the most successful dev tool founders I...
Tessa Kriesel4 min read
#laravel#ai#productivity#learning
How I Used Claude Code's Multi-Agent Orchestration and Laravel to Rebuild a Backend Overnight
Last night at 8:50 PM, I sat down to rebuild a product's backend from scratch. By 11 PM, I had a...
Tessa Kriesel5 min read
#cloud#productivity#architecture#kubernetes
Why the Next AWS Outage Will Cost You More Than the Last One (And What to Do About It)
When AWS US-EAST-1 went dark on October 20, 2025, over 3,500 companies across 60 countries went down...
Tessa Kriesel7 min read
What a fantastic event this was.
Financial Post Mortem For The Commit Your Code Conference ...
Tessa Kriesel1 min read
#devrel
DevRel is Sales
You read that right. DevRel is sales. Before you jump to conclusions, let me explain myself....
Tessa Kriesel3 min read
#devrel
Navigating the DevRel Job Market
Developer Relations aka DevRel is an ever-changing landscape as the industry becomes more widely...
Tessa Kriesel3 min read
#news#ios#gamedev#html
The Snapchat Minis Beta is Expanding
Join Our Growing Developer Community There’s never been a better time to think big by...
Tessa Kriesel3 min read
#devrel
My DevRel Strategy Breakdown
I've found that most Developer Relations professionals struggle with defining strategy &...
Tessa Kriesel9 min read
#devrel
What is DevRel?
DevRel is an abbreviation for Developer Relations. Developer Relations is enabling a developer to...
Tessa Kriesel3 min read
#womenintech
Gender Discrimination at Fintech Startup, Fast
My Side of the Story On December 14th, 2020, Domm Holland reached out via Twitter DM and...
Tessa Kriesel11 min read
#devrel
Your first 30 days in a new DevRel role
Your first 30 days in a new DevRel role will be vastly different company to company. For the sake...
Tessa Kriesel5 min read
#devrel
How DevRel Programs Drive Business Impact
Developer roles within organizations Developers can play many key roles in an...
Tessa Kriesel3 min read
#devrel
DevRel Teams: Solitary to Collaborative
Developer Relations is a relatively new industry, at least the term anyways. For me, the most...
Tessa Kriesel3 min read
#security#log4j
What I Learned About the Log4j Vulnerability
I was excited to join Lacework for many reasons, but one of the most important was that it provided...
Tessa Kriesel2 min read
#security
How will Lacework’s acquisition of Soluble benefit devs?
I’m absolutely thrilled about Lacework’s newest announcement—we just acquired Soluble, a startup...
Tessa Kriesel2 min read
#security#devrel
We're Lacework. We care about security.
You might be worried that this is another brand trying to get a foothold in a community. It’s not....
Tessa Kriesel2 min read
#career
Developer advocacy community launches today 🎉
Mentoring developers is one of my major passions in life. Actually, mentoring anyone is a passion....
Tessa Kriesel3 min read
#career
Developer advocate vs developer relations leader — who to hire first
Do a search for developer advocacy roles—they're on fire. Many founders & leaders are currently...
Tessa Kriesel4 min read
#career
Where to look for DevRel jobs
Developer Relations roles have never been in demand more than they are now. Finding someone with...
Tessa Kriesel1 min read
#career
Connecting your RSS feed URL for easy publishing to dev.to
This is a spin off from Devocate's post, Where Developers Blog, to help show developers how to connec...
Tessa Kriesel2 min read
#opensource#community
Using Orbit to better manage your open source developer project community
Managing an open source project is already a task in itself, let alone worrying about your...
Tessa Kriesel7 min read
#watercooler#startup
Why Your New Software Needs a Developer Community Before Marketing
So, you’re launching a new software product. Where do you start onboarding new users? Who do you...
Tessa Kriesel3 min readAdvertisement