apidays New York 2023 APIs for Embedded Business Models: Finance, Healthcare, Retail, and Media May 16 & 17, 2023 The API portal is dead, long live the Platform- and Interface portals Kristof van Tomme, Co-Founder & CEO of Pronovix ------ Check out our conferences at https://www.apidays.global/ Do you want to sponsor or talk at one of our conferences? https://apidays.typeform.com/to/ILJeAaV8 Learn more on APIscene, the global media made by the community for the community: https://www.apiscene.io Explore the API ecosystem with the API Landscape: https://apilandscape.apiscene.io/

1. The API portal is dead, long live the platform & the interface portals
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2. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy, strategy is contextual
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3. Internal - platform /
/ external - interface
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4. ● Employee directory
● API scorecards
● Catalogue completeness
● Gitops
● InnerSourcing
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Internal External
● Customer onboarding
● Lead validation
● Dev marketing & sales
● Monetisation
● Key provisioning

5. @kvantomme
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6. The only consultancy in the world dedicated to
Open source developer portals?
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DEVPORTAL
AWARDS 2023
The DevPortal Awards brings
together the API community to
recognize, celebrate and
learn from the world’s
greatest developer portals
and their API documentation
since 2018.
Nomination is open until
30 June.
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9. 8 years ago devportals were primarily seen as a feature for APIM
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https://twitter.com/iamjeff75/status/283185469041283072/photo/1 by @iamjeff75

10. Key features:
● Key provisioning
● Catalogue
● Self service
● Developer eXperience
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Interface for an APIM solution
Different audiences:
● Internal developers
● Partners
● Customers
● Industry

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2 types of portals with capabilities from a range of domains
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12. ● Internal portal
● API governance
● Developer onboarding
● Service catalogue
Pronovix confidential and proprietary
Internal

13. ● Internal portal
● API governance
● Developer onboarding
● Service catalogue
● Devops portal
● InnerSource portal
Pronovix confidential and proprietary
Internal

14. ● Internal portal
● API governance
● Developer onboarding
● Service catalogue
● Devops portal
● InnerSource portal
Pronovix confidential and proprietary
Internal
● Marketplace
● Monetisation
● Partner ecosystem
● Developer Relations
External

15. ● Internal portal
● API governance
● Developer onboarding
● Service catalogue
● Devops portal
● InnerSource portal
Pronovix confidential and proprietary
Internal
● Marketplace
● Monetisation
● Partner ecosystem
● Developer Relations
● Developer hubs
● Documentation center
External

16. ● Internal portal
● API governance
● Developer onboarding
● Service catalogue
● Devops portal
● InnerSource portal
Pronovix confidential and proprietary
Internal
● Marketplace
● Monetisation
● Partner ecosystem
● Developer Relations
● Developer hubs
● Documentation center
External
Platform portal

17. ● Internal portal
● API governance
● Developer onboarding
● Service catalogue
● Devops portal
● InnerSource portal
Pronovix confidential and proprietary
Internal
Interface portal
● Marketplace
● Monetisation
● Partner ecosystem
● Developer Relations
● Developer hubs
● Documentation center
Platform portal
External

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Platform portals enable & encourage reuse
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Interface portals constrain how the world interacts with you
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20. Enabling constraints is what complex
adaptive organisms use to manage the
complexity of the world
● To let in what feeds them
● To interact with symbionts
● To keep out what harms them
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APIs are essential for AI readiness, both internally & externally
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27. ● The economy of scope is about the creation of reusable
shared resources that help your company to:
○ Accelerate development through improved Developer
eXperience
○ Reduce maintenance and infrastructure costs by reusing
those shared resources
Beware! The creation of a platform is an oblique goal, your
platform team should not be building your platform!
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Internal platform portals

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@kvantomme -
The best way to
get a platform, is
to enable its
convergence
through a
stigmergic
process on a
platform
devportal. You
have to work on it,
but you cannot
force it.

29. ● The economy of differentiation is about generating and
capturing value in the market through:
○ A developer brand that differentiates your organization
○ Differentiated interfaces that are uniquely fit to a need
of a significant market segment
Beware! API design will become a utility, eventually
differentiation will be on service & brand, not API design!
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External portals

30. APIs will evolve from products to utilities.
Today having APIs might still be a
differentiator, but this will really quickly
become table stakes. Eventually external APIs
will become a utility as designs standardise.
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31. Shift from devportals being about APIs only,
to devportals that are their own thing, with a
clear broader purpose.
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32. What is the deal with the Jean Claude movie?

33. There is no need to do an epic split, you can have 2 portals instead

34. If you are trying to build 1 portal for all, you risk building a flea
market with an inherint purpose and architecture conflict.
Splitting these 2 functions gives you clarity of purpose:
● Internal - Platform portal - encourage reuse
● External - Interface portal - intelligent interaction
● Processes & tools to bring content from internal to external
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Summary

35. We have helped customers to do all 3.
If you want to learn more, get in touch.
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