[doc][improve] add popular topics to dev landing page

[Anonymitaet]

This PR adds popular topics to the dev landing page to give quick guidance for devs to get familiar with Pulsar.

The popular topics (pages) are based on the data collected from GA and Matomo, which covers from concepts, tasks, and references.

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[Anonymitaet]

The preview looks good and all links work correctly.

[Anonymitaet]

@D-2-Ed could you please help review? Thank you!

[jak78]

Thank you @Anonymitaet. However, I'm not sure this is the right place to put these topics. This page is called developers-landing. It looks like it is designed for beginners because of the following text:

Developing applications for Pulsar can be a fun and rewarding experience. With Pulsar, you can quickly create, deploy, and manage your services using a powerful CLI tool and a comprehensive set of libraries. The topics below will get you started!

However, just below this text, very advanced topics are mentioned: simulation tools, binary protocol, and so on. This is not about getting started, so it seems contradictory.

My suggestion:

• rename this page to 'Advanced topics for developers' or something similar
• rewrite the paragraph I quoted. This page is not about developing applications for Pulsar.
• popular topics would be on a separate page

[Anonymitaet]

Hi @jak78 thanks for your suggestions!

rename this page to 'Advanced topics for developers' or something similar
rewrite the paragraph I quoted. This page is not about developing applications for Pulsar.

How about changing this part to the following?

popular topics would be on a separate page

Currently, this page is the most appropriate place to show "popular topics for devs" because:

1. this is the only landing page for devs, and these are popular topics for devs.
2. we (+@D-2-Ed ) also consider other places, like the red box in the image below, but it's not a suitable place because these topics are only for devs. We plan to add separate "popular topics" to the dev landing page (popular topics for devs) and the operator landing page (popular topics for operators).

Thoughts?

[jak78]

Hi @Anonymitaet, and thank you for your answer.

rename this page to 'Advanced topics for developers' or something similar
rewrite the paragraph I quoted. This page is not about developing applications for Pulsar.

How about changing this part to the following?

I agree

[Anonymitaet]

@jak78 thank you! I've updated it, PTAL. Feel free to approve this PR if you do not have more comments.

[jak78]

Thank you @Anonymitaet ! I would suggest moving the 'advanced' section below the 'popular' section

[Anonymitaet]

@jak78 thanks! Done, PTAL.

[Anonymitaet]

Hi @D-2-Ed @jak78 @heesung-sn @Demogorgon314 updated as you suggested, PTAL.

[Anonymitaet]

@jak78 thank you!

[tisonkun]

This link would break. I'll prepare a fix to it.

[Anonymitaet]

Thanks!
Before I submit this PR, I've previewed this link, and it goes well.
Just now I check it again, and it works.