Six Principles of the Next Generation Developer Portal
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At Microsoft Azure API Management, we took up a challenge of building the next generation developer portal for thousands of our customers. We distilled the essence of developer portals by rethinking their purpose, collecting customers’ feedback, and researching the trends and available solutions. Then, we built our new developer portal based on these findings. In this session you will hear the lessons we learned. You will understand why and how to account for the six principles of a modern developer portal: - Scale and simplicity. How can we serve tens of thousands of concurrent users across the globe? - Roles. How can we be inclusive and create best possible experience for designers, content editors, and developers? - Intent abstraction. How can we abstract the content and look of the portal from its codebase and ensure safety of updates? - Automation and dev-ops. How can we script and automate management of the portal? - Look and feel. How can we incorporate the latest design trends and craft a remarkable web experience for API consumers? - Open source. How can we make the portal publicly available?
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Professor Alicia Juarrero, a leading complexity theory philosopher and academic, as well as the founder and president of VectorAnalytica, a technology company that specializes in large scale scientific data capture and real time analysis tools. Alicia's work in complexity theory is widely quoted by thought leaders in the technology space and referenced in many recent complexity-informed approaches for managing highly dynamic systems, as well as in knowledge management.
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How to develop an API ecosystem in the fintech industry from the ground up
In this talk, we are going to explain what we did @ MODO (a new mobile payment solution similar to Bizum) to develop from the ground up a single platform that provides multiple functionalities to the biggest banks in Argentina, using OpenAPI/Swagger and a design-first approach.
Open sourcing Adyen’s API explorer
Two years ago, Adyen realized the Swagger UI wasn’t meeting their needs... so they decided to build their own. We’ll share how we designed and built our new API Explorer - making it more extendable, and easier for Developers and Technical Writers to maintain. We’ll also talk about our future plans, including open sourcing it for the community.
Creating Interactive Docs with Postman
The story of how our small team automated our way to fully customized, interactive API documentation in Postman–including visualizations, example responses, and an OpenAPI-esque object models section. Along the way, we open-sourced much of the workflow and happened to win a hackathon.
The Joy of Docs, or, Technical Writing for Developers and Engineers
Technical writing is rarely taught in code schools or listed among the qualifications for an engineering job. Yet developers rely heavily on documentation to use the tools they need to use. Not only that, decisions about which tool to use often take into account the availability of quality documentation. It’s important not to leave the task of writing docs to technical writers who may not fully understand the underlying technology or use cases. This talk will teach you the basics of technical writing–from tutorials and API reference guides to pull requests, release notes, and even code comments - so you can increase adoption of your software and keep the developers using it happy.
Measure and improve API references with use cases: challenges and best practice
I’d like to share how technical writers can pair up with product and development teams to measure and improve API references usability with additional content: use cases and best practices. We’ll take a closer look at the API design challenges and practical solutions.
We’ll touch on the importance of spotting development and product biases when designing and developing the APIs, especially if technical writers were not involved in the process early on. I’ll share examples of how I work with multiple teams and manage dependencies, the tools we use, and the organizational methods we rely on to collaborate effectively.
I will guide everyone through an API reference review example and discuss how writers can use API reviews as a way to get everyone, from design to development, on the same page.
Blood, sweat, and creating an API handbook
This talk describes the development of ABN AMRO’s API handbook, the single-source of truth for the development and management of internal and external API products.
Our company is moving towards an API-First culture and mentality. Streamlining the development process is key to enabling this. In the beginning, API development knowledge was not documented or centralized in one location. Accurate information was not available for developer teams and they were not aware of what exactly the process entailed.
My colleague and I began by making agreements on how the overall process works, describing it in an intuitive way, and then by making it open and accessible company-wide. This involved setting up and hosting face-to-face meetings or MS Teams calls with specialists to find out what was required
This talk describes our approach to gathering content from experts, defining and refining processes, obtaining feedback from readers, and redesigning the content in a more user-centric format.
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Six Principles of the Next Generation Developer Portal
- 2. Six Five
- 3. Six Five Six
- 10. Principle #1
- 12. Data endpoint API gateway endpoint Static files API Management data API Management 1 2 Portal endpoint
- 13. Principle #2
- 18. Principle #3
- 20. Management endpoint API gateway endpoint Static files API Management data Portal data Publishing worker Portal code API Management 1 23 2
- 21. Principle #4
- 24. Principle #5
- 27. Principle #6
Editor's Notes
- Serve a mass of concurrent visitors without consuming a lot of API Management resources
- Support business requirements of every customer
- Let customers deploy in Azure, other clouds, or on-premises
- Minimize the amount of required customizations for the customers
- There are many personas interacting with the portal
- Migration between the environments, backups, and additional processes (like reviews)