A great developer experience (DX) is essential for customer-facing APIs to be successful. However, as our 11th Annual State of DevRel Report 2024 shows, only 37% of organizations conduct regular DX audits to identify developer journey friction, those points where potential customers struggle or give up on an API.
Implementing the findings from an audit can significantly improve your API's usability, increase developer satisfaction, and ultimately lead to more successful integrations.
Why aren’t DX audits conducted more regularly?
Could it be because these API owners haven’t clearly defined their developer journey?
Are the internal developers overwhelmed with building and maintaining their APIs, SDKs, and documentation?
Are they unaware of third-party tools they could use to solve some of these challenges?
We ponder these types of questions weekly as we review sites and audit clients’ developer journeys to identify friction and strategize on areas of opportunity. This is also why we collaborated on a webinar with APIMatic.
APIMatic is a platform for validating APIs, generating and publishing SDKs while keeping them in sync with the APIs, and facilitating documentation.
Using your OpenAPI file, APIMatic can validate your API design against the OpenAPI standard and lint it to enforce a ruleset designed to improve code quality in seven languages (Java, Python, PHP, TypeScript, Ruby, C#, and Go).
It supports various API description formats, including RAML, Postman, and more, and offers an extension for Visual Studio Code.
On the documentation side, APIMatic supports docs as code, can generate and host developer portals, and serves as your documentation CMS. Collectively, these features help developers optimize their organization’s DX, and we couldn’t be more excited to see tools like APIMatic appearing in the DevRel space.
Join Dana Fujikawa and Steve Pousty from DevRel.Agency, and Sid Maestre from APIMatic as they walk through common friction points developers experience as they discover, evaluate, integrate, and maintain APIs.
They’ll also discuss how you, as an API owner, can save your target developers from a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. This webinar is a valuable opportunity to gain insights, learn from industry experts, and discover how to improve your developer experience. Plus, we’ll look at examples of companies that are doing APIs the right way.
Take advantage of this opportunity to learn from industry experts. Click here to sign up for this free webinar and take the first step toward improving your developer experience.
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