Sagar Batchu
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Podcast Appearances
A lot of our customers were spending a lot of time, a lot of support time onboarding users onto the API. Like the table stakes for what they were providing the users was just the classic three pane documentation site. Now this is the classic left-hand view, middle view, right-hand view you've probably seen for a lot of API docs. And that just wasn't enough.
A lot of our customers were spending a lot of time, a lot of support time onboarding users onto the API. Like the table stakes for what they were providing the users was just the classic three pane documentation site. Now this is the classic left-hand view, middle view, right-hand view you've probably seen for a lot of API docs. And that just wasn't enough.
A lot of our customers were spending a lot of time, a lot of support time onboarding users onto the API. Like the table stakes for what they were providing the users was just the classic three pane documentation site. Now this is the classic left-hand view, middle view, right-hand view you've probably seen for a lot of API docs. And that just wasn't enough.
That, to me, felt like the lazy thing to do, throw up a Swagger doc site and send it to your customers. We actually started to innovate around a set of React and developer portal components that would allow you to stitch together a really interactive and guided onboarding experience. My name's Sagar. I'm CEO and co-founder of Speakeasy.
That, to me, felt like the lazy thing to do, throw up a Swagger doc site and send it to your customers. We actually started to innovate around a set of React and developer portal components that would allow you to stitch together a really interactive and guided onboarding experience. My name's Sagar. I'm CEO and co-founder of Speakeasy.
That, to me, felt like the lazy thing to do, throw up a Swagger doc site and send it to your customers. We actually started to innovate around a set of React and developer portal components that would allow you to stitch together a really interactive and guided onboarding experience. My name's Sagar. I'm CEO and co-founder of Speakeasy.
Speakeasy is a platform that really helps you take your API to market. It helps you distribute your API to your customers, give them all of the tools they need to have an amazing onboarding experience and also long-term usage. So I really got into this when I was working at LiveRAM.
Speakeasy is a platform that really helps you take your API to market. It helps you distribute your API to your customers, give them all of the tools they need to have an amazing onboarding experience and also long-term usage. So I really got into this when I was working at LiveRAM.
Speakeasy is a platform that really helps you take your API to market. It helps you distribute your API to your customers, give them all of the tools they need to have an amazing onboarding experience and also long-term usage. So I really got into this when I was working at LiveRAM.
We were a really big ETL product, and transforming from an ETL product into an API product was this big initiative that happened. And doing that's really hard, like running APIs at scale for a company that had many hundreds of millions of ARR running through it, many dozens of high-value customers, billions of requests a second.
We were a really big ETL product, and transforming from an ETL product into an API product was this big initiative that happened. And doing that's really hard, like running APIs at scale for a company that had many hundreds of millions of ARR running through it, many dozens of high-value customers, billions of requests a second.
We were a really big ETL product, and transforming from an ETL product into an API product was this big initiative that happened. And doing that's really hard, like running APIs at scale for a company that had many hundreds of millions of ARR running through it, many dozens of high-value customers, billions of requests a second.
It was a really gargantuan task that the engineering team at the company undertook. And as part of that, we built this fantastic API platform initiative. And at its core, the purpose of this initiative was to provide all developers of the company a consistent way to develop and ship APIs.
It was a really gargantuan task that the engineering team at the company undertook. And as part of that, we built this fantastic API platform initiative. And at its core, the purpose of this initiative was to provide all developers of the company a consistent way to develop and ship APIs.
It was a really gargantuan task that the engineering team at the company undertook. And as part of that, we built this fantastic API platform initiative. And at its core, the purpose of this initiative was to provide all developers of the company a consistent way to develop and ship APIs.
So investing in our internal developer experience was the way that we decided we were going to make sure our customers had a great developer experience. Through that whole initiative, I ended up spending a lot of time on it, thinking about all the tools and building the tools that we needed to actually make that happen.
So investing in our internal developer experience was the way that we decided we were going to make sure our customers had a great developer experience. Through that whole initiative, I ended up spending a lot of time on it, thinking about all the tools and building the tools that we needed to actually make that happen.
So investing in our internal developer experience was the way that we decided we were going to make sure our customers had a great developer experience. Through that whole initiative, I ended up spending a lot of time on it, thinking about all the tools and building the tools that we needed to actually make that happen.
So this was everything from a DSL that we use internally to define and build APIs, infrastructure components like sidecars for authentication, a lot of tools to actually make the development and deployment of the APIs easy for every developer at the company.
So this was everything from a DSL that we use internally to define and build APIs, infrastructure components like sidecars for authentication, a lot of tools to actually make the development and deployment of the APIs easy for every developer at the company.