Developer Management
Build an Active Developer Community to Get Maximum Benefit from Your Open APIs
Open APIs allow enterprises to build communities of third-party developers around their applications and data. But many enterprises struggle to ensure developers actually use these APIs to build apps that deliver real value.
This interactive town-hall event, originally broadcast live on the Layer 7 Technologies Facebook page as part of the Tech Talk Tuesday series, discusses how enterprises can attract, engage and manage developers for their open APIs.
Guest expert Dana Crane – product Manager for Layer 7's API Portal – offers real-world strategies designed to help enterprises onboard and manage third-party developers in order to get maximum benefit from open APIs.
Viewer questions answered in this Tech Talk include:
- What are the big challenges for acquiring developers
- How can I make a public-facing API valuable to developers?
- What are some strategies for managing API registration?
- Once I have developers interested, how do I get them to the next stage: building apps?
- How can I ensure my active developers remain engaged?
- What needs to be included in API documentation?
- How should API providers and developers collaborate?
- What can you determine through looking at usage metrics?