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You can write the best, most structured documentation in the world - and your users will still arrive by some other route. This session focuses on the GitHub repos that your documentation references, and how to prepare for these to be the entry point for someone.

Learn how to scale beyond old choices and find the next big thing for your API documentation. This talk will use the past, present, and future of Marqeta’s docs to provide a framework for growing and evolving your own.

Many of us have heard about Docs As Code. Applying the same tooling and delivery CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) pipelines as developers to improve the quality of (API) documentation sounds nifty.

We’ll take a look at the philosophy, best practices and how to get started.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. This is an accurate summary of what my initial journey of evangelizing API usage was like. In this talk I will take the audience through our journey, what worked, what didn’t work and what we learned along the way.

In the jungle of public APIs, how do you build a product that will outplay the other ones? In today’s world having an easy to use API is not enough. Your competitors provide SDKs, interactive documentations, gamification, demos & tutorials. I will give your all the tips to have a rocking API product.

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The uncomfortable truth about DX: everyone talks about it, and yet only a few get it right. What about you? We know testing and feedback collection can be hard, but we’re here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be that way: from bug hunting challenges to hackathons, we’ve got a few ideas to share.

Integration is often seen as a technical burden rather than an opportunity to drive commercial relationships with customers. Get the proposition right through channel agnostic API-first documentation and you will attract business stakeholders as well as developers for sustained digital partnerships.

23 different REST APIs, 26+ teams, 150+ writers — how we built a unified solution. In this session, hear the inside story of how a handful of writers developed a REST API doc solution and earned the trust of executives and engineering teams across Salesforce along the way.

Have you ever wondered how big companies deal with large amount of APIs? How do they keep consistency among the catalogue? Either if you are already running an internal API governance or you are thinking about start a new one, this talk will share our do’s and don’ts with the rest of the community.

API Description Documents (a.k.a “specifications”) can be used for all sorts of time and money saving things. Stop worrying about “keeping specs in sync with code” and use your specs as production code, speeding up development and reducing mismatch bugs.

At the heart of scalable and intuitive APIs is great user experience, but the UX of an API is rarely considered. Learn how to integrate UX strategies to create improved API experiences using real life examples and lessons learned from upgrading Shopify’s own API.