Working at AWS (with Erik Hanchett)

While Alex is at PragVue, Michael is joined by Developer Advocate Erik Hanchett who works at no other company than AWS. In this DejaVue episode, they discuss the different duties of a Developer Advocate and skills one need to become one, as well as everything around content creation and conferences.
In addition, Erik shares how it is to write Vue code as a Software Engineer at AWS, which he did for multiple years.

Enjoy the episode!

Our Guest

Erik Hanchett

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• Twitter
• YouTube

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
• (00:35) - How would you describe your job?
• (03:20) - Do you miss the deep technical problems?
• (09:41) - Duties when speaking at a conference
• (12:50) - What is Developer Advocacy?
• (23:30) - Which skills do you need to be a Developer Advocate?
• (26:40) - Your first content pieces doesn't have to be perfect
• (28:16) - First Five unreleased DejaVue episodes
• (29:44) - Putting yourself out there
• (32:09) - Erik's first podcast guest appearance ever
• (37:10) - Using Vue.js at Amazon Web Services
• (41:29) - How did you get into Vue?
• (43:16) - Working on AWS Open Source projects
• (45:06) - Migrating a library from Vue 2 to Vue 3
• (49:48) - Nested Slot Bonanza
• (51:34) - Angular, React and Vue devs in the same project
• (52:15) - Wrapping up

Links and Resources

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• AWS Amplify
• VueUse
• Vue Demi
• XState

Your Host

Michael Thiessen

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• YouTube
• Website

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