There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to developers. In this Kongcast episode, Ben Greenberg, Developer Advocate at Orbit, chats with us about building better engineering communities and focusing on the outcomes rather than technology. At the end, he shows us how he leveraged GitHub Actions to create a copy-and-paste workflow that integrates services, no matter the language they’re written in.

Check out the GitHub Actions Templates Ben referenced: https://github.com/orbit-love/github-actions-templates

Orbit is hiring engineers globally: https://orbit.love/careers

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TIMECODES

0:00 Kongcast Show Intro

0:28 Welcome, Ben!

0:50 How Ben Became a Developer Advocate

4:00 What Does Orbit Do?

7:00 Establishing Developer Communities

10:47 How Orbit Consolidates Community Platforms with APIs

17:00 Raw APIs vs. SDKs

21:10 Exotic APIs in the Financial Services Industry

24:20 Problems Orbit Has Solved with GitHub Actions

27:57 Demo: Integrating Services in Any Language with GitHub Actions

46:00 Book Recommendations from Ben

47:16 Thanks for Joining, Ben!

47:35 Kongcast Show Outro

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Hosted by @Viktor Gamov and Kaitlyn Barnard, we interview software developers and technology leaders at the top of their game every other week. We’ll also give you the tools, tactics and strategies you need to take your distributed architectures to the next level. Kongcast goes beyond the buzzwords and dissects real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your biggest connectivity challenges.

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