1. Lessons Learned from Building the Yahoo! Developer Network Jonathan LeBlanc Principal Software Engineer Yahoo! Developer Network Twitter: @jcleblanc Website: http://www.jcleblanc.com
11. History of YDN: Year of the Developer (2006) Focus on the developer community 20 developer APIs in YDN The first external hack day is created to foster the culture of hack Developers! Developers! Developers!
12. History of YDN: Year of the Open Strategy (2008) Focus on “open and social” development through new platforms and APIs Renewed focus on Open Source Strong evangelism and developer outreach programs Continued growth of Hack Open APIs Open Source Social Strategy
13. History of YDN: Year of Innovations (2011) Focus on fostering internal and external innovations 60+ developer offerings in YDN Internal and external hack events HackU program for university innovations Tech Innovation Hack Day HackU
20. Technology Stack: A Commitment to Open Source Authentication and Authorization Platform Technologies Server and Cloud Technologies
21. Technology Stack: What We’ve Learned Abstract out difficult to implement technologies with SDKs. Focus on several core features of your technology offerings, not the entire stack. Open source initiatives provide an excellent “get started quickly” technology base.
39. Handling Developer Outreach: Takeaways Not all outreach channels can be treated the same way. You need appropriate support channels internal to the company. Developers are your best source of bugs and features.