Jesscia Lam was the Chief Architect and VP Engineering at LoungeBuddy, which was acquired by American Express. At LoungeBuddy she designed their APIs, many of which continue to be in use today. As a CTO, architect and engineering lead at multiple companies, Jessica shares her experience on how to build products to be more resilient, why error handling is so important and how to treat internal APIs vs. external APIs.

Tyler Jewell, VC at Dell Technologies Capital and ex-CEO of API Platform company WS02, gives his perspectives on investing in developer-first companies, what single trait most successful companies share, why developer joy is important and many more. Specifically, we cover.

Adam DuVander, Principal at EveryDeveloper, explains what you should focus on to market to developers.

Jesscia Lam was the Chief Architect and VP Engineering at LoungeBuddy, which was acquired by American Express. At LoungeBuddy she designed their APIs, many of which continue to be in use today. As a CTO, architect and engineering lead at multiple companies, Jessica shares her experience on how to build products to be more resilient, why error handling is so important and how to treat internal APIs vs. external APIs.

How to Best Leverage Integrations to Grow Your Developer Platform. As popular web services extend their developer platforms for partners to integrate directly into their interfaces, design trends are forming from experiences in the world of embedded integrations. With Google Drive connecting tools like Balsamiq and ShiftEdit, Gmail enabling Docusign in their web and mobile UI, and services like Trello providing plugins within their own interfaces, custom experiences powered by third parties are proving themselves to be a great way to improve your product and grow your business.

Give Your API Platform the Power to Grow

API platform best practices from the founder of the developer platform team at Box.

StdLib (https://stdlib.com/) is a platform for developers to create APIs without worrying about infrastructure.