This week’s episode is the recording of a live conversation between myself and Chris Westerhold, (Thoughtworks Head of Developer Experience). This conversation is useful for anyone early in their journey with developer portals or platforms: we discuss common approaches to solving these problems, pitfalls to avoid, building vs. buying, and more.
Listen to this podcast on Spotify, Google, or Apple Podcasts.
Discussion points:
(3:09) Why there’s an increased interest in developer portals
(5:33) Chris’ background with dev portals
(6:37) Homegrown solutions for developer portals
(9:22) How developer portal initiatives begin
(11:24) Internal developer portal vs service catalogs and IDPs
(16:18) Mistakes companies make with developer portals
(21:05) Approaches to solving this problem
(24:28) How can developer portals drive value
(32:07) Common traps to avoid
Read the full transcript here.
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