Elmer Thomas's presentation for DevRel Con 2017.

1. Supporting SDKs in seven
different programming
languages while
maintaining sanity

2. Who is this guy?
@thinkingserious

3. Septalingual
Member of the Maintainerati
(obviously)
@thinkingserious

4. The Core Client SDKs
BILLIONS of emails flow
through these SDKs every
month. No pressure.
● Python
● PHP
● C#
● Ruby
● Node.js
● Java
● Go
@thinkingserious

5. My face at the prospect of this challenge
@thinkingserious

6. To automate or not to
automate?
- Me
@thinkingserious

7. YES NO
● General Docs
● Integration Tests
● Examples
● Low Level Code
● CLA
● Swag
● GitHub Interactions
● HTTP Client
● Helpers
● README
● Getting Started Docs
● Use Case Docs
● Troubleshooting Docs
● Contributing Docs
● Unit Tests
● Semver Versioning
@thinkingserious

8. Community & Collaboration
Legend:
Me
Community
@thinkingserious

9. How do we do (prioritize)
all the things?
- Me
@thinkingserious

10. A Day in the Life
● Meeting preparations
● Admin tasks
○ Calendar, Emails, HipChat, etc..
● GitHub
○ Inbox
○ Check automated systems
○ Process intake items in backlog
● Growth tasks
● Automation
● Backlog work
@thinkingserious

11. Meeting Template
● Date/Time/Location
● Attendees
● Purpose
● Key discussion points
● Expected outcomes
● Action items
● Notes
@thinkingserious

12. A Day in the Life - End of Day
● Give kudos to fellow SendGrid’ers
● Breadcrumbs
● Email review
● HipChat review
● Daily standup prep
● Prepare the next day’s checklist
@thinkingserious

13. please clap
Thank You!
@thinkingserious