apidays New York 2023 - The API portal is dead, long live the Platform- and Interface portals, Kristof van Tomme, Pronovix

apidays New York 2023
APIs for Embedded Business Models: Finance, Healthcare, Retail, and Media
May 16 & 17, 2023

The API portal is dead, long live the Platform- and Interface portals
Kristof van Tomme, Co-Founder & CEO of Pronovix

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1. The API portal is dead, long live the platform & the interface portals @kvantomme 1
2. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy, strategy is contextual @kvantomme 2
3. Internal - platform / / external - interface @kvantomme 3
4. • Employee directory • API scorecards • Catalogue completeness • Gitops • InnerSourcing Pronovix confidential and proprietary Internal External • Customer onboarding • Lead validation • Dev marketing & sales • Monetisation • Key provisioning
5. @kvantomme 5
6. The only consultancy in the world dedicated to Open source developer portals? @kvantomme 6
8. 8 DEVPORTAL AWARDS 2023 The DevPortal Awards brings together the API community to recognize, celebrate and learn from the world’s greatest developer portals and their API documentation since 2018. Nomination is open until 30 June. devportalawards.org
9. 8 years ago devportals were primarily seen as a feature for APIM @kvantomme 9 https://twitter.com/iamjeff75/status/283185469041283072/photo/1 by @iamjeff75
10. Key features: • Key provisioning • Catalogue • Self service • Developer eXperience Pronovix confidential and proprietary Interface for an APIM solution Different audiences: • Internal developers • Partners • Customers • Industry
11. 11 Pronovix confidential and proprietary @kvantomme 2 types of portals with capabilities from a range of domains 11
12. • Internal portal • API governance • Developer onboarding • Service catalogue Pronovix confidential and proprietary Internal
13. • Internal portal • API governance • Developer onboarding • Service catalogue • Devops portal • InnerSource portal Pronovix confidential and proprietary Internal
14. • Internal portal • API governance • Developer onboarding • Service catalogue • Devops portal • InnerSource portal Pronovix confidential and proprietary Internal • Marketplace • Monetisation • Partner ecosystem • Developer Relations External
15. • Internal portal • API governance • Developer onboarding • Service catalogue • Devops portal • InnerSource portal Pronovix confidential and proprietary Internal • Marketplace • Monetisation • Partner ecosystem • Developer Relations • Developer hubs • Documentation center External
16. • Internal portal • API governance • Developer onboarding • Service catalogue • Devops portal • InnerSource portal Pronovix confidential and proprietary Internal • Marketplace • Monetisation • Partner ecosystem • Developer Relations • Developer hubs • Documentation center External Platform portal
17. • Internal portal • API governance • Developer onboarding • Service catalogue • Devops portal • InnerSource portal Pronovix confidential and proprietary Internal Interface portal • Marketplace • Monetisation • Partner ecosystem • Developer Relations • Developer hubs • Documentation center Platform portal External
18. 18 @kvantomme Platform portals enable & encourage reuse 18
19. 19 @kvantomme Interface portals constrain how the world interacts with you 19
20. Enabling constraints is what complex adaptive organisms use to manage the complexity of the world • To let in what feeds them • To interact with symbionts • To keep out what harms them @kvantomme 20
21. 21 @kvantomme APIs are essential for AI readiness, both internally & externally 21
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27. • The economy of scope is about the creation of reusable shared resources that help your company to: ◦ Accelerate development through improved Developer eXperience ◦ Reduce maintenance and infrastructure costs by reusing those shared resources Beware! The creation of a platform is an oblique goal, your platform team should not be building your platform! Pronovix confidential and proprietary Internal platform portals
28. 28 @kvantomme - The best way to get a platform, is to enable its convergence through a stigmergic process on a platform devportal. You have to work on it, but you cannot force it.
29. • The economy of differentiation is about generating and capturing value in the market through: ◦ A developer brand that differentiates your organization ◦ Differentiated interfaces that are uniquely fit to a need of a significant market segment Beware! API design will become a utility, eventually differentiation will be on service & brand, not API design! Pronovix confidential and proprietary External portals
30. APIs will evolve from products to utilities. Today having APIs might still be a differentiator, but this will really quickly become table stakes. Eventually external APIs will become a utility as designs standardise. @kvantomme 30
31. Shift from devportals being about APIs only, to devportals that are their own thing, with a clear broader purpose. 31
32. What is the deal with the Jean Claude movie?
33. There is no need to do an epic split, you can have 2 portals instead
34. If you are trying to build 1 portal for all, you risk building a flea market with an inherint purpose and architecture conflict. Splitting these 2 functions gives you clarity of purpose: • Internal - Platform portal - encourage reuse • External - Interface portal - intelligent interaction • Processes & tools to bring content from internal to external Pronovix confidential and proprietary Summary
35. We have helped customers to do all 3. If you want to learn more, get in touch. @kvantomme 35
36. https://unsplash.com/photos/GK8x_XCcDZg https://unsplash.com/photos/pRJhn4MbsMM https://unsplash.com/photos/nT4k2JDtwTQ https://unsplash.com/photos/F3lBkL_y9KY https://twitter.com/iamjeff75/status/283185469041283072 https://unsplash.com/photos/mqeQ_ql0Jas https://unsplash.com/photos/HpMihL323k0