Confidence and Critical Thinking in Techwriting: Part 2
MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL database programs, providing both on-premise and cloud-based solutions. Tony works as a senior technical writer on cloud based tools. He has 20+ years experience in computer hardware, software, and services, specializing in data protection and user security, and he is a long-time supporter of API The Docs.
In this second part of the interview we continue our conversation:
- Adoption of OpenAPI specification
- How to save large amounts of documentation time?
- How to keep the specifications up-to-date?
- How to simplify API documentation?
The hosts are Laura Vass (Editor of Developer Portals Newsletter, Co-Founder of Pronovix) and Anett Pozsár (Senior Technical Writer, Pronovix).
Confidence and Critical Thinking part 1: techwriting is life-long learning - Interview with Anthony Sansone, Senior Technical Writer at MongoDB
Confidence and Critical Thinking: techwriting is life-long learning - Interview with Anthony Sansone, Senior Technical Writer at MongoDB
MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL database programs, providing both on-premise and cloud-based solutions. Tony works as a senior technical writer on cloud based tools. He has 20+ years experience in computer hardware, software, and services, specializing in data protection and user security, and he is a long-time supporter of API The Docs.
In this interview, Tony and the hosts are delving into the following topics:
- How has the technical writing job market changed lately?
- Speeding up complex onboarding and training of new technical writers at MongoDB
- Embrace inquisitive juniors and help build confidence, keep open office hours
In Part 2, Episode 22, we continue our conversation:
- Adoption of OpenAPI specification
- How to save large amounts of documentation time?
- How to keep the specifications up-to-date?
- How to simplify API documentation?
The hosts are Laura Vass (Editor of Developer Portals Newsletter, Co-Founder of Pronovix) and Anett Pozsár (Senior Technical Writer, Pronovix).
Building a DevRel Team - Interview with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven
Building a DevRel Team - Interview with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven.
Lorna is an open source software developer and project maintainer, published author, blogger and conference speaker, who is with us today to talk about the skills and roles that contribute to successfully operating a devrel team:
- Priorities and structure when developing a new devrel team
- Roles and responsibilities
- Involving a technical writer in the team
- Career path, growth and collaboration in a devrel team
- Insights of creating a new open source devportal
- Aiven open source data tools and products
- Maintenance of documentation and workflows
Sources:
Read more about Lorna’s work here: https://lornajane.net/
For job offerings at Aiven, please visit: https://aiven.io/careers
The hosts are Laura Vass (Editor of Developer Portals Newsletter, Co-Founder of Pronovix) and Anett Pozsár (Senior Technical Writer, Pronovix).
Feedback is the key! - Interview with Alex Hoffer, Developer Relations Engineer at Plaid
Alex Hoffer is a DevRel engineer at Plaid. Previously, she was managing the QA team at Dropbox for 6 years. At Plaid, she's been working on documentation and an overhaul of the Plaid developer docs. Developer experience is extremely important at Plaid and the docs are a big part of that. Tune in to hear more about how to create an excellent developer experience:
- How does a cross-functional team work together with other departments in order to improve the developer functionality?
- How developer experience is about product, documentation and engineering collaborating together?
- What is her role in the API Review Committee, which helps ensure APIs are standardized and maintain their API style guide?
- Docs revamp - how have they approached it, why have they done it, where is it going next?
- How does the entire doc editing and authorship process work at Plaid?
- And last but not least, how have they incorporated user feedback into the docs process!
- The host is Laura Vass (Editor of Developer Portals Newsletter, Co-Founder of Pronovix).
Sources:
https://plaid.com/blog/new-plaid-docs/
plaid.com/careers
Getting into the tech industry through technical writing - Interview with Carolyn Stransky, Frontend Engineer at Bryter
Former technical writer, previously a journalist and now fronted engineer, conference speaker and workshop organizer. Tune in to learn about Carolyn's career journey.
- How did she transition from journalism to technical writing and how did her previously acquired journalism skills support that journey?
- Why and how did she become a software engineer?
- What was her role in the Google Season of Docs program that connects experienced technical writers with the open source community?
- What does humanizing your documentation mean in practice?
- How to write a good FAQ page to best support the onboarding process?
In this episode we are exploring a new topic that hasn't been touched on yet over the API The Docs podcast series.
The host is Anett Pozsár (Senior Technical Writer, Pronovix).
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A good design is not about how something looks, it's about how something works - Interview with Liam Gallagher and Jake Eastham from Barclays
Today our guests are Liam Gallagher (UX Designer/API Platforms) and Jake Eastham (Front-end Developer and Accessibility Champion) from Barclays:
“It's very easy to get caught up in aesthetics, you want to design something that is really cool and you think it is amazing.. You actually want to show it to everyone, but you completely messed up the accessibility part. As I matured, I realised that good design is not about something that looks good, but how something works. A good design is naturally inclusive. “
“An accessibility champion is someone who fosters within their environment, within their own team, while being aware of the different accessibility challenges you have and why we are designing and developing our products, what is the importance of it. “
Join us for an inspiring conversation with the two times winner of DevPortal Awards in the Best Accessible Portal category.
The hosts are Laura Vass (Editor of Developer Portals Newsletter, Co-Founder of Pronovix) and Anett Pozsár (Senior Technical Writer, Pronovix).