API The Docs Podcast
Episodes
Streamline release notes: balance AI and human oversight
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Senior technical writers Gareth Brinn and Lydia Pedersen talk about using GPTs and n8n to automate release notes: scripting, prompt engineering, and s...
Beyond Access Control: Model-Context Protocol Paradigm
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
API thought leader Kevin Swiber and Pronovix CEO Kristof Van Tomme join the podcast to explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the emerging gover...
State of the Docs 2025: Insights from GitBook - Discussion with Addison Schultz
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss findings from GitBook's "State of the Docs" report (2025), for example that 90% view documentation as crucial for purchases, ...
How AI Impacts Technical Writing Workflows - Discussion with Anila Zaidi and Marco Spinello
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the A(P)I The Docs podcast! We’re opening this new chapter with an absolute treat of an episode in which Anila Zaidi, Staff Technica...
Documentation by humans for humans - Discussion with Polina Zaichkina and Max Clayton Clowes
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get people on board when you shift to a new tool or a new approach? Even if the value proposition is clear, it might be a challenge to crea...
From Inconsistent to Award-winning Docs - Conversation with Naomi Pentrel & Andrew Feierabend
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Naomi Pentrel and Andrew Feierabend share their journey of revamping Viam’s robotics APIs documentation. They discuss the benefits ...
The Secret Sauce of Developer Programs: A Conversation with Byrne Reese
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Byrne Reese had the opportunity to build a number of developer programs over the years. In this episode, he explains his unique Developer Pyramid fram...
Teaching and Learning Git - Discussion with Anna Skoulikari
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to learning Git, it can be daunting to navigate the plethora of learning resources out there. Recognising the need for a visually engagi...
Install ways to check on the overall health of the portal - Conversation with Rachel Lee Nabors
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Key results are the things you're going to do to move that number. Here's the thing where most people spin out. There should be a break ...
React.dev and storyboarding with Rachel Lee Nabors
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"You can always tell when it's a novice writer or a writer and an artist who are in bad relation because there will be blocks of text everywh...
On the management track - conversation with Claire Waters
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing from her role as a wayfinder, Claire Waters (Senior Manager – Product Content Experience, Cloudflare) shares her team’s using the COIN met...
The zen of resilience - Discussion with Dan Grabski
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You need docs and headspace when a well-oiled system inevitably throws a flat tire. With Dan Grabski we talked from car racing through tech execs medi...
Writing with humans in mind - Discussion with Ryan Young
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Technical writers walk a tricky tightrope between delivering accurate technical information and making it comprehensible for a wide range of users wit...
DevPortal Awards Jury Interview - Special Edition Part 4
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can one make their devportal accessible and useful at the same time? What can devportal owners do to support inclusive design? We were honored to ...
DevPortal Awards Jury Interview - Special Edition Part 3
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The API The Docs Podcast brings you a Special Edition series with insights from the 2023 DevPortal Awards. Each year, the DevPortal Awards seeks th...
DevPortal Awards Jury Interview - Special Edition Part 2
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The API The Docs Podcast brings you a Special Edition series with insights from the 2023 DevPortal Awards. Each year, the DevPortal Awards seeks th...
DevPortal Awards Jury Interview - Special Edition Part 1
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The API The Docs Podcast brings you a Special Edition series with insights from the 2023 DevPortal Awards. Each year, the DevPortal Awards seeks th...
Harnessing the power of customer success - Discussion with Charlie Edwards
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connected to both customers and internal teams, customer success is a powerful source of valuable information throughout the entire feedback loop. In ...
Building empathy with a beginner’s mindset - Discussion with Adrienne Braganza Tacke
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adopting a beginner’s mindset allows you to explore familiar concepts through a lens of curiosity and openness. But how does that translate to docum...
Docs anthropology, and how to make content useful for the future - conversation with Portia Burton
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does a biological anthropologist become a professional docs auditor? Portia Burton, founder of DocumentWrite, narrates her meandering journey from...
Demystifying DevRel and Tech Writing - Discussion with Kruno Golubic and Katarina Šupe
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Technical writing and developer relations are relatively new areas, and they have both grown out of a need for these specific skill sets. However, for...
Fostering an API-first culture in a startup environment - Discussion with Alex Akimov and Helen Kosova
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From rapid changes to learning on the fly, startups face unique challenges that require creative solutions. Alex Akimov (Head of API Platform at Monit...
Empowered community through user-centered design - Discussion with Anthony Pichardo
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Anthony Pichardo, product manager at Visa Developer Platform, on the value of user-centered design and building non-zero sum environments where e...
Unified documentation hubs versus documentation islands - Discussion with Christoph Weber and Kristof Van Tomme
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We explore how developer documentation hubs enable a unified information architecture, at least outwards: our guests Christoph Weber (Pronovix) and Kr...
Why convert from markdown to confluence? - Interview with Paula Cristina Vaz
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Developers are the ones who know their APIs best, but they need an easy documentation process that wouldn’t be too different from the coding lifecyc...
Innersource and the meaning of collaboration - Interview with Daniel Izquierdo and Kristof Van Tomme
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Izquierdo (Bitergia) and Kristof Van Tomme (Pronovix) explained their journey with innersource and open-source communities. They also discussed...
The valuable problem: about Domain Driven Design with Luca Vettor
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Business and technical personas may have different skills, and in many cases, they use different terminology. Luca Vettor (Information Architect at De...
A love letter to technical writing - Passo Uno, Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why did Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti (Senior Staff Technical Writer at Splunk) write a love letter to technical writing? How could technical writers creat...
Docs-as-Code for better collaboration at Amadeus for Developers - Interview with Anna Tsolakou and Mathieu Pincovai
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Tsolakou (Developer Advocate) and Mathieu Pincovai (Customer Success Specialist) shared with us the journey on how Amadeus for Developers created...
Advocacy at Spotify for Developers - Interview with Serah Njambi Kiburu and Alvaro Navarro
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Spotify Senior Developer Advocates Serah Njambi Kiburu and Alvaro Navarro talked with us about the two enemies of developer empathy, and their practic...
Typical patterns in the process of API learning – Interview with Emese Hallgató
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest Emese Hallgató works as a UX researcher at Pronovix Developer Portals. Her education and experience in computer programming and in psycholo...
Techwriting, DX and DevRel working together at Miro - Part 2
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 2 of our conversation with Miro's DevRel Lead Anthony Roux and Senior Techwriters Mira Balani and Marco Spinello, we walk deeper into how thei...
Techwriting, DX and DevRel working together at Miro - Part1
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With our three Mironeer guests, DevRel Lead Anthony Roux and Senior Techwriters Mira Balani and Marco Spinello, we talked about how they joined their ...
Interview with Anthony Sansone, staff technical writer at MongoDB - The importance of onboarding in techwriting
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Anthony Sansone, staff technical writer at MongoDB, who has spent 20+ years in computer hardware, software, and services, specializing in...
Interview with Marc Burgauer part 2 - Will social practices eat your change strategy for breakfast?
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Or, maybe you could map it: what does each of you do, why, and how? We converse about integration of practices and practice networks with Marc Burgaue...
Interview with Marc Burgauer part 1 - Will social practices eat your change strategy for breakfast?
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Or, maybe you could map it: what does each of you do, why, and how? We converse about integration of practices and practice networks with Marc Burgaue...
When is no news good news for a scheduling platform? - Interview with DevRel Kristyn Bryan and Application Architect Dmitry Pashkevich from Calendly
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We asked DevRel Kristyn Bryan and Application Architect Dmitry Pashkevich from the Calendly API team about the new, v2 of their API and the upgraded d...
Source code access, consistency: some ingredients of Adyen's API program
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Ruby Batallones, Technical Writer at Adyen and Aleksei Akimov, Head of API at Adyen Involve your technical writers already from the API...
Confidence and Critical Thinking in Techwriting: Part 2
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL database programs, providing both on-premise and cloud-based solutions. Tony works as a senior technical writ...
Confidence and Critical Thinking part 1: techwriting is life-long learning - Interview with Anthony Sansone, Senior Technical Writer at MongoDB
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Confidence and Critical Thinking: techwriting is life-long learning - Interview with Anthony Sansone, Senior Technical Writer at MongoDB MongoDB is on...
Building a DevRel Team - Interview with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven.
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Building a DevRel Team - Interview with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven. Lorna is an open source software developer and pro...
Feedback is the key! - Interview with Alex Hoffer, Developer Relations Engineer at Plaid
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Hoffer is a DevRel engineer at Plaid. Previously, she was managing the QA team at Dropbox for 6 years. At Plaid, she's been working on documentat...
Getting into the tech industry through technical writing - Interview with Carolyn Stransky, Frontend Engineer at Bryter
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Former technical writer, previously a journalist and now fronted engineer, conference speaker and workshop organizer. Tune in to learn about Carolyn's...
A good design is not about how something looks, it's about how something works - Interview with Liam Gallagher and Jake Eastham from Barclays
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today our guests are Liam Gallagher (UX Designer/API Platforms) and Jake Eastham (Front-end Developer and Accessibility Champion) from Barclays: “It...
Creating a fully self-service API program - Interview with Alvaro Navarro and Anthony Roux
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the Developer Relations & API product management team on Amadeus for Developers - Open API Product for the travel industry. Our guests are Al...
Tech writing for software engineers - Interview with Barry Rosenberg
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Barry Rosenberg, technical writer at Google and co-author of courses Technical Writing One and Technical Writing Two. At the beginning of...
Inclusion and Accessibility - some suggestions from fellow documentarians - Interview with Ilona Koren-Deutsch
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We ask Ilona Koren-Deutsch about the Women in APIs initiative, and her advice on how to diversify a team. We talk about considerations to ensure acces...
Where Product Marketing Meets the Docs – Interview with Liz Couto
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are talking with Liz Couto, Product Marketing Manager at Shopify, about the role of marketing and an amplifier, where the CTA is often pointing to ...
Feedback Management & Documentation Workflows - Interview with Uwana Ikaiddi
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s a misconception to think that documentation is a solitary endeavor” says Uwana Ikaiddi (Documentation Manager, BigCommerce). Getting invol...
Intentional Jargon and Technical Documentation – Interview with Erin McKean
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Good Docs Project aims to create open source documentation templates, and most recently an information architecture template too. Erin McKean, one...
DocOps and Automation to the Delight of Technical Writers! - Interview with Paula Henk & Patrick Hammond (Adyen)
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the main principles a documentation team operates on in a fast-moving industry? How to adopt DocOps? How does a documentation team decide on ...
Remote Onboarding and Technical Writing: Things We Can Do Better
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can you onboard new technical writers when your office just turned into remote-first? This podcast episode focuses on the mistakes Karen Sawrey (C...
Developer-friendly API Documentation with Milecia McGregor
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“When you’re working on APIs that developers use, they need to know exactly how to use them. Great documentation is the way to do this & it gi...
The Evolution of a Documentation Platform - Interview with Fabian Rodriguez (Vonage)
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vonage’s developer platform journey started in 2017. Little did they know the impact that some of their design decisions were going to have now. In ...
Insider's advice on actions your tech writers can take to create quality API documentation
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the 7th API The Docs Virtual event Michelle Fredette, technical writer at New Relic and Chris Cowell, Oregon-based technical trainer and writer pre...
Dev-first API products, API explorers & Microservices
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the 6th API The Docs Virtual event Egan Anderson, head of developer experience at Galileo, explained ways companies can prioritize developers’ ne...
Dev Doc Trends w/ Tom Johnson
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On 27th Tom Johnson, senior technical writer at Amazon, presented his comprehensive research on how API documentation trends differ from other tech co...
Change management on large & complex documentation sets
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On 13th May in the API The Docs virtual event Sarah Day, technical writer at LaunchDarkly, shared how you can incorporate API documentation in the big...
Defining Top API Use Cases and How to Meet the Goals of Your API's Audience
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On 6th May Steph Mills from Splunk shared how you can create the best possible golden paths through the API woods, and how to reduce the need for user...
Minimal Viable API Documentation and Developer Experience
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On 22th April Mike Jang from GitLab explored what an Minimum Viable Documentation is for RESTful APIs. Jenny Wanger explained that the way you name, d...