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Angel Maldonado & Pedro Ondiviela - A New DevPortal Findability Experience: Holon Discovery

API The Docs 2023 Developer Success & Developer Portals Recap

This talk was presented at APIDays New York 2023, Developer Success & Developer Portals track on 17 May. We are glad to present the video recording and the talk summary.

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PEDRO ONDIVIELA

Front-end Developer at Empathy.co

ANGEL & PEDRO'S PRESENTATION (VIDEO RECORDING)

 

“An evolving and self-organizing system, where each holon is simultaneously a whole and part of something bigger…” - Arthur Koestler

 

Holon Search

Empathy Platform Docs approached the search feature differently to create more than just a conventional search.

  • Holon Search: Vector and Keyword search is an explainable, privacy-minded & extensible solution you can own and control.
  • The holon is a representation of complexity: it incorporates multiple parts, and yet represents the whole is greater than the sum of its constituent parts.
  • The most relevant result doesn’t have to be the first, and it can have a different shape, motion, and different relationships.
  • The search results set is not just a flat land, not a dumped out array or a list, which is a reflection of a computing mind.

Embracing new ideas to represent vectors, and the relevance with the depth and the complexity of their relationships between concepts is a key differentiator in Empathy’s Holon Search.

Development process

Backend - steps

  • Parser
  • Index plugin
  • Search plugin

Frontend - technologies

  • D3
  • Vue.js

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