API The Docs Virtual 2020 - Recaps

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