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Interview with the 3 Jury Members who judged 32 developer portal nominations over 9 award categories for the 2020 Devportal Awards.

Yorkshire Building Society’s API journey started in 2016 when the PSD2 regulation entered into force. After Apigee ended its hosting of Drupal 7 devportals, YBS implemented a core upgrade of its platform to Drupal 8, simplified its support model, and introduced an improved developer experience.

We discuss the 3 strategic decision making dimensions that contribute to the maturity for a developer portal: Operational maturity, Developer eXperience, and Business alignment. In this article we identify how 3 current trends align with these dimensions.

How to win at developer adoption and onboarding with your developer portal? This article charts how the features available in the Zero Gravity developer portals benefit both the downstream (consumer) and upstream (creator) developer journey.

Introduction to a maturity model for developer portals. How do I know what to do to improve my devportal? How can I increase value, from the first MVP through to a mature developer portal? How do I do this when I don’t have a clear path to value for my company’s API program? 

Devportal CMS? CI/CD? Docs as code? Why choose if you can have them all?

What is CI/CD development? How does CI/CD relate to docs-as-code? How can I write and maintain human-readable documentation while incorporating an automated testing framework to my review process? We provide an infographic and a description that illustrates our take on how CI/CD documentation, DocOps, and the Docs-as-code integrate.

Are apps and integration portals also developer portals? In this article we illustrate the 6 types of devportals and how devportals are evolving to grant access to a broader range of specialized knowledge and tools to enable a wider range of users.

What is the Apigee Edge Module and how is it related to Apigee Edge Integrated Portal or to Apigee Drupal KickStart? How do I get up and running with a devportal on Drupal 8? What is Drupal Core, Drupal Modules, or a Drupal distribution used for?

Who will win the Best Overall DevPortal Award for 2020? We bring you our 3rd edition of the DevPortal Awards that applaud excellence and creative solutions in developer portals. In this article, we reveal the new and improved ten nomination categories for the Developer Portal Awards of 2020, updated descriptions and examples for each category, and how you can submit a nomination.

What happens when you register as a user? What features do you see? We introduce the Best Developer Dashboard category for the 2020 DevPortal Awards.

What makes a devportal stand out against competitors?

We highlight the criteria that we think define the category of Best Overall Devportal and we include examples taken from devportals nominated in previous years.