At Microsoft Azure API Management, we took up a challenge of building the next generation developerportal for thousands of our customers.

We distilled the essence of developer portals by rethinking their purpose, collecting customers’ feedback, and researching the trends and available solutions. Then, we built our new developer portal based on these findings.

In this session you will hear the lessons we learned. You will understand why and how to account for the sixprinciples of a modern developer portal, which can guide you in building, choosing, or managing your portal:

1. Architect for effortless scalability – how can you scale without drastically increasing the resource consumption?
2. Allow extensibility – how can you ensure the portal will always meet your ever-evolving requirements?
3. Enable easy deployments anywhere – how can you deploy the portal in the cloud or on-premises with any technology stack?
4. Accelerate go-to-market – how can you release and publish your portal as quickly as possible?
5. Tailor to administrators, content editors, designers, and developers – how can you serve all the users of the portal?
6. Embrace DevOps – how can you ensure the safety