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AI-native CMS vs vibe codingDrupal AI Summit New York City 20262026-05-14
Ten years of building developer portals in Drupal lead to a clear claim: AI changes the process, not just the output — adding metadata upstream in code…
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Harnessing AI for API Business Documentation in a Devportal CMS [...]apidays Paris 20242024-12-02
Generates business documentation from OpenAPI specs using large language models and finds straightforward prompts produce readable business descriptions from…
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Unlocking API Potential: The Power of Developer Portalsapidays New York 20232023-05-16
Claims that developer portals split into two distinct products: platform portals for internal reuse, service catalogs, employee directories and API scorecards…
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APIs and Complexityapidays Paris 20212021-12-07
Argues that APIs are deliberately designed boundary systems that turn software into evolving complex adaptive systems, not just a productivity tool. Uses…
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The Interface manifestoapidays Paris 20212021-12-07
Argues that APIs are turning organizations into deliberately complex adaptive systems and proposes an Interface manifesto to steer that change, starting with…
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Developers Are Pioneers Not UnicornsPostman Galaxy 20212021-02-02
Claim: Postman shifts information flow from person-to-person to discoverable, constrained interfaces. Shows non-developers using Postman to trigger API…
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The Interface economyApidays LIVE Paris 20202020-12-08
Claim: APIs are an infrastructure that reorganizes information flows to let organizations do agile at scale rather than a product to monetize directly. Staged…
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Democratizing developer experienceDevRelCon Earth 20202020-06-30
About 50 developer portals built informs the claim that APIs are going mainstream and require both technical and nontechnical paths: teams must enable…
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7 cultural models to adapt to a world of increased complexityDrupalCon Amsterdam 20192019-10-28
Seven concrete claims: organizations need to become complex adaptive systems; motivation collapses when extrinsic rewards replace intrinsic drives…
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Dev rel behind the firewallDevRelCon London 20172017-12-06
Experience from building over 30 developer portals identifies five concrete failure modes called the five White Walkers of motivation: poor discoverability…
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Embed The Docs!Write the Docs North America 20162016-05-22
Argues that centralized manuals no longer keep up with rapid releases and short attention spans and proposes pushing help into the app itself, using specific…
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Keeping trust: Testing documentation as part of a continuous integration processWrite the Docs Prague 20142014-09-08
Proposes two concrete paths: merge executable tests and docs so a failing test flags stale text, or embed machine-readable metadata (using RDFa) to generate…
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