DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
A change in format for weekly notes. Local rumblings like H5N1, international splashes with China's Internet disappearing, could AI solve science, the smart web could use our support, and engineering the slow internet from a user from Antarctica.
Back in November of last year, [I linked to](How to Encourage A Blogging Culture.txt) an interesting article by Noah Gibbs on [how to encourage a blogging culture at your company](http://codefol.io/posts/encourage-a-blogging-culture-at-your-company/). Where Noah focused more on the individual, Dan Luu--in [*How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written*](https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/)--looks at organizational factors that lead to successful corporate blogs. I encourage giving both a read. As I begin working toward a version of this at work, I found referring to both helpful.
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers!