Alex Merced has worked in education, technology and marketing and now he wraps up all that experience in his current role as a Developer Advocate. In this podcast, Alex Merced shares his experiences and advice on branding, marketing, building trust, communicating and more to a technical audience with the occasional interview with other dev rel/dev advocacy professionals about their experience. Find all Episodes Here: https://host.alexmercedpodcast.com/series/devadv/ If you like marketing or technology, this is a podcast for you. If you are a dev rel or dev adv in the data space, I recommend seeking an invite to the discord community started by https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikikobazeley/ If you're just looking to connect with other tech folks I have a few slack channels I run for Web Dev (DevNursery.com) and Data (DataNation.click) Also, make sure to subscribe to my other podcasts: Web Dev 101 Datanation Select * From Data.Lake; Gnarly Data Waves Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
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January 27, 202613 min
Understanding AI Agent Skills, MCP and Custom GPTs/Gems
Alex Merced discusses the differences between different ways of customizing agent behavior and when to use which. – Agent Skills– Model Context Protocol (MCP)– Claude Projects/Custom GPTs/Gemini Gems Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com
January 16, 202621 min
Embracing AI Disruption and AI Tooling
Alex Merced talks about how his optimism about the Agentic AI tool and poses the question, if people can run as fast as they could before AI, instead of resenting them for it, ask yourself how much further you can now run with AI. Follow Alex on Social: AlexMerced.com The Data Lakehouse Community: https://www.datalakehousehub.com
December 23, 202519 min
2025 Reflections, Google Antigravity, NotebookLM, Dremio AI Agent, Pangolin Catalog, Dremioframe & Iceframe Python Libraries for Apache Iceberg
Alex Merced (AlexMerced.com) discusses:– his thoughts on thriving in 2026– His use of Google’s Antigravity– His use of NotebookLM– Dremio’s AI tools (dremio.com)– More Check out Pangolin Catalog at PangolinCatalog.org
November 20, 2025
Guide to Getting Started in DevRel and Developer Advocacy
Alex Merced, Head of DevRel at Dremio discusses his advice for getting started in the developer advocacy and developer relations field. Follow Alex by going to AlexMerced.com
October 30, 2024
#8 – Bluesky and Mastondon for DevRel and Dev Advocacy
Alex Merced talks about Bluesky and Mastodon
March 30, 2024
7 – Building Momentum in the Speaking Circuit
Alex Merced discusses tips for dev rels and dev advocates to build their public speaking momentum. Follow Alex, find links at AlexMerced.com
October 19, 2023
6 – The Starlight Docs Framework for Creating Community Knowledge Bases
Alex Merced discusses how he’s used the starlight framework to give gifts to the communities he serves:
August 23, 2023
5 – Docker and Dev Education
Alex Merced discusses using docker for dev education, here is a link to the resources he mentions. In just a few commands, you can have everything you need to practice ingestion and querying with popular data software. Just install Docker and then run the commands in the image. You can also follow the directions in […]
May 8, 2023
4 – Video & Audio Content
Alex Merced gives advice on video and audio content. Follow Alex at @amdatalakehouse or @alexmercedcoder
April 12, 2023
3 – Good Media Apps & Generative AI
Alex Merced discusses how to use mobile apps and generative AI to be a prolific and effective content creator.
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