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Winning a prestigious award showcases your achievements to the world, and the nomination process itself also brings a force of internal animation. In this article, we share some stories from former nominees to show why the journey is especially worth the destination.

Catering to a wide range of audiences can enhance the discoverability of your API affordances. In this article, we draw inspiration from the exemplary teams at Deutsche Börse Group, UP42, Codat, Cloudinary, NewDay, Nexio, and Masdr, who highlight the importance of addressing business users on developer portals.

In 2023, we worked with 13 extraordinary people in the jury panel, who put their hearts and souls into the evaluation. This article highlights some of their remarks which can be guidance for those who want to bring their developer portals and API programs to the next level.   

What are the best practices that get you to an inclusive developer portal? One of the DevPortal Awards' main category bundles is Operational Excellence, which includes accessibility. In this article, we observe what were one of the most successful devportal’s approaches in the past years. We also recapped some best practices from the teams behind the Nationwide Partner Portal, Talkdesk Developer Documentation, and Spotify for Developers.     

What can be the pitfalls of a preset, out-of-the-box developer portal framework? How can AI help you to improve developer experience? How can you build confidence and enable self-service with onboarding? This article focuses on developer experience, which also encompasses onboarding, and highlights some of the best practices we saw from the DevPortal Awards nominees.

The ultimate purpose of the DevPortal Awards is to learn as a community what should we all strive towards? How–and why?–could developer portals get better, to further contribute to the success of software integrations.