DEVASC v1.1 handbook. This is available in ebook and hard copy on Amazon. Cisco Certified DevNet Associate Handbook amzn.eu/d/3oJ5hxu Huge thanks to @qsnyder and @Verlaine_Devnet for their contributions.

Walking over the new Portal Scaffolder redesign: a fully in-Portal experience for discovering, creating, editing, publishing, and running Software Templates, no GitHub context-switching required! youtu.be/EGjL0Eoe31E?si=KALv…

Portal Audit Logs is a standardised, durable logging system that records who did what, when, and where across Portal. Audit Logs | Spotify Portal for Backstage youtu.be/ny7ZPnXuGfI?si=4PS9…

As soon as you believe you are capable, the "impossible" becomes a milestone. The rest is just showing up.

📣 It's official—DevNet certifications are now Automation certifications! Active DevNet cert holders, join @bigevilbeard and share your new CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE Automation badge. Get your NEW badge here 👉 cs.co/6017hy9Jl #CiscoCert

Bye bye DevNet Expert…. Hello CCIE Automation CCIE# 70062 @learningatcisco. credly.com/badges/26a39166-3…

I am safe but a lot of extremely competent/kind/experienced coworkers are not! If you are currently hiring for roles across devrel (both on the public side and behind the scenes) please send me a DM and I can connect you with some incredible candidates. HugOps for aws ❤️

Our highest loyalty doesn’t belong to people or parties. It belongs to principles. If you wouldn’t accept it from the “other side,” you shouldn’t accept it from yours. Integrity is upholding your values even when your own group violates them.

Why Belief In God Works

Someone said I am pretty. Well the whole sentence was “you're pretty annoying “ but I'm focusing on the positive. 😆

Fear is “What if.” Faith is “Even if.”

We’re teaming up with PagerDuty to show you how you can turn your developer portal into an incident command center 🚨 — meeting developers where they work so teams can resolve issues without breaking their flow. Join our live webinar: hubs.li/Q03WMQ-J0

Stop tab-hopping during incidents 🚨 Join our live webinar featuring @Spotify's Stuart Clark (@bigevilbeard) to see how PagerDuty Spotify Portal for Backstage brings incident management directly into your dev portal. Faster response. Less friction. Better outcomes. Save your spot ➡️ bit.ly/3LRGh6l

Go from an empty directory to a live, working plugin in minutes with Portal Plugin Studio, testing safely against production data. Watch the demo here lnkd.in/eM9MRQHq Checkout the documentation and get started lnkd.in/esRiYuvA

Dev teams waste hours switching tools for simple tasks. AiKA's new MCP support changes that, one AI assistant for your entire dev ecosystem. From question to action in seconds. backstage.spotify.com/docs/p…

I'm hiring for 10 roles right now at AWS focused on developers. - technical marketing (sr and mid level) - associate developer advocates (LATAM and NAMER) - program manager - technical program manager - community manager - event manager

Rest In Peace Pop. 1950 - 2025. ❤️

Trust is earned in small moments every day.

One of the hardest days of my career wasn’t in a boardroom. I was 19, a housekeeper making $7.50/hour with a quota: 18 rooms a day. I was behind. Way behind. And I needed that job. Mid-shift, I broke down crying in a supply closet. That level of stress? I’ve never felt it again—not even in tech. That day taught me grit. And that some of the strongest people in any org aren’t in leadership—they’re the ones whose names we never learn. Never forget where you started. It’s where your strength lives.

It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. James Clear