Articles

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.   

This article is part of APIFutures, a distributed, creator-led effort to identify the most significant opportunity and/or the greatest challenge facing the API community in 2024.

LLMs are about to drastically increase the volume and apparent quality of automatically generated messages. Some communication will be generated on behalf of a valuable customer or partner, but a lot will be low value attempts from third parties that are exploring opportunities at the expense of their receivers. How will we deal with all these - at first sight - ‘legitimate’ interactions?

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.

How can we assess API health by addressing API visibility and transparency? How is it possible to achieve API governance at the enterprise scale? Is it feasible to drive positive change and enhance enterprise API production by prioritizing transparency, actionable feedback, and recovery paths?