Turn your API into a Product - Paris API talk, Nov 22, 2016
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The document outlines key principles for developing a successful API product, emphasizing the importance of providing an excellent developer experience and building a supportive community. It highlights collaboration among product managers, developers, QA, and customer success teams to create a reliable and scalable API. Additionally, it encourages continuous improvement and ecosystem growth while maintaining backward compatibility.
Turn your API into a Product - Paris API talk, Nov 22, 2016
- 1. 1 Turn your API into a Product Return of experience #ParisAPI 23 November 2016
- 2. Arnaud Breton Head of API and Developers Relations Who am I? 22 Formal front-end lead developer @ Mention CTO and co-founder of UniShared / VideoNot.es (Imagine K12 Alumni) Endorphin addict @arnaud_breton
- 5. Once upon a time…
- 6. Be hAPI!
- 7. … It’s also the beginning of your journey
- 8. Pillars of a strong API Product It’s not only about the best application “We aim for the best Developer Experience" Integrate Everyone doesn’t code in PHP or Go.. nor want to spend time connecting your API with 3rd parties 88 Document Guide developers in their first steps and to implement key scenarios. Support / Community Let your customers know that they’re not alone, a community is here to support them!
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- 13. Build a strong community Be accessible Be where your users are, be reactive Encourage contributions Easy to contribute, reward 1313 Showcase your customers Tell the story of your happy customers Share updates Show how your product is moving, where you go Go out! Meet with people, understand their challenges
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- 15. The Mallet API Team Product Managers Listening to the market, users and giving global product directions Developers Building a top class product: reliable, performant, secure, scalable 1515 QA The Production Gatekeepers Dev. Evangelists Making sure all developers send their email with Mailjet! Ecosystem Lead Dev. Integrate with the best Customer Success Guiding you to the success! Project Managers Making all our great ideas concrete
- 16. What’s next for us? Publish content You have more stories to tell than you think! 1616 Improve our API A Product is a living thing. Remember one rule: be backward-compatible! Grow your ecosystem Play with the best
- 17. 17 Join us online @mailjetdev Promocode: PARIS11