A sensible API Document Management guide

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Explains a practical documentation workflow: plan-create-produce-revise-publish-measure tied to API versioning and a single source of truth, with separate product vs utility API docs and personas split into producers and consumers. Recommends use-case driven portals, getting started guides, live try tool sandboxes and SDK/code-snippet generation via Apigee, WSO2, MuleSoft, SwaggerHub and OpenAPI. Emphasizes measuring gateway and portal metrics to prioritize and maintain documentation.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:26API documentation importance
3. 3:32Documentation challenges
4. 5:59API value chain personas
5. 7:25API documentation strategy
6. 10:53Developer-centric workflow
7. 13:43Documentation format and versioning
8. 15:08Modern API portals
9. 16:33Audience and community engagement
10. 18:27Q&A

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