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API The Docs Virtual 2020 - Recaps
Before 2020, the API the Docs conference was a people-centred full day of events held with local community support in hub cities like Paris, Chicago, Amsterdam, London, and Tokyo.
For 2020, we conducted 11 virtual sessions of 2-3 talks.
Here is the full list of recordings, slide decks and talk summaries from API The Docs Virtual 2020 series.
Recaps from Season 1, API The Docs 2020
API strategy & developer portals
Live session: 8 April
• Leah R. Tucker ({your}APIs): Designing a Future-proof API Program
• Kristof Van Tomme (Pronovix): Beyond API Spray & Pray: The Role of Developer Portals in Digital Transformation Strategy
API docs & DX
Live session: 22 April
• Mike Jang (GitLab): Minimum Viable Documentation for RESTful APIs
• Jenny Wanger: The UX of DX: User Testing in the Invisible World of APIs
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User Journey Iteration, Performance Metrics
Live session: 6 May
• Bob Watson, Phd (Amazon Web Services): Write What Counts…and Count What Counts: A goal-oriented, Customer-centered Approach to API Documentation Development and Analytics
• Steph Mills (Splunk): A Path Through the Woods: Defining and Documenting Top API Use Cases
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Change management on large & complex documentation sets
Live session: 13 May
• Sarah Day (LaunchDarkly): Content, Collaboration, Community – What You Get When You Invest Non-docs Time in Docs Tools
• Riley Siebel (C3.ai) and Mark Winberry (Pronovix): Case Study: Creating a DocOps/Docs-As-Code DevPortal for C3.ai
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API docs trends & API design
Live session: 27 May
• Joan James (Zebra Technologies): How the Open API Specification led to Better REST API Design
• Tom Johnson (Amazon): How Trends in API Documentation Differ from other Tech Comm Trends: Results from a Comprehensive Survey
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Product & Technology
Live session: 10 June
• Egan Anderson (Galileo): How to Create a Developer-First Product
• Larry Kluger (DocuSign): Exploring an API with Blocks
• Michael Haberman (Aspecto): Hundreds of Microservices without breaking your APIs
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New to API Documentation
Live session: 24 June
• Michelle Fredette (New Relic) and Chris Cowell: Eight hours to API literacy: a fast, fun on-ramp for writers
• Uwana Ikaiddi (BigCommerce): Improving Your API Documentation from the Inside-Out
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Recaps from Season 2, API The Docs 2020
Live session: 23 September
• Milecia McGregor (Conducto): Unit Testing Your Docs
• Louis Debatte-Monroy (TomTom): How to Tailor your Developer Portal to Your Audience
Live session: 7 October
• Ivana Isadora Devcic (ReversingLabs): From Zero to Spec-first API Hero
• Jeremy Glassenberg (Deserve): Automating the API Product Lifecycle
Live session: 4 November
• Michael Meng (Merseburg University): Optimizing Documentation – Some Guidelines & Effects
• Patrick Hammond (Adyen): Let writers write – Automating the Boring Stuff for Our Docs team
• Lorna Jane Mitchell (Vonage): Beyond the API Reference – Developer Experience for APIs
Live session: 18 November
• Ben Greenberg (Vonage): The Journey of Our Documentation Platform to Station
• Adam DuVander (EveryDeveloper): Machine-readable Developer Experience
• Ben Ahmady & Minh Nguyen (Onfido): Developer Experience as a Product
