Wants me to blog every couple of weeks
Can ask one of the engineers who is working on a cool project to blog about it during our meeting
This is the lead developer relations role
Doesn’t expect “big strides” in developer relations right now
Should be able to address most Discord issues in a month
“Bug” with up to one question per person per day
Ask users to open issues on any bugs I see in Discord
Build something with EdgeDB
Follow getting started tutorial
- Make suggestions to improve
Victor has lots of institutional knowledge about why decisions were made
- work closely with Victor and Yury
Can clone individual repos in .repos and then symlink back to the .repos directory

Expectations

Not trying to pull in loads of developers right now. Just need some limited visibility for now.
- Cloud is main product
- Cloud will remove the remaining DX hurdles
Blog post in November
Record tutorial
Focus on learning the product
Read the book
Goal for the next couple of weeks:
- Follow book
- Build application
- Get involved in Discord
Yury liked my persistence
Likes Colin’s style in blog posts
Talk to community about why they like EdgeDB and what can be built with it.
- Agree this is important, but it’s also on us to tell people why they need it.
Read all of the blog posts

Origin

Founded MagicStack in Canada
- hated consulting
- Philosophy on building products and data layer was unique and could be a product
Originally a Python framework called Chaos
Built on Postgres
- implementation detail
- No company is re-inventing everything at the same time
- EdgeDB is focused on replacing the front-end
- Reduce layers of abstraction
- As we grow, start messing with the engine
- Take postgres apart and re-assmble for their own needs

Speaks directly to programming language
- Data model feels native
ORMs give you shallow capabilities
SQL invented in 1976
- not composable
Modern query language is to SQL as Javascript is to COBOL
Querying is not trivial with SQL, and is with EQL
Mongo became popular because it was schemaless to avoid migrations, but schema is important
- Prisma
- High-level language to define schema
- Automatic migrations
Protocols and APIs designed to work across a network and be resilient
Vertically integrated: protocol, data model,