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docs

Protecting a Branch so Only the Docs Team Merges and Publishes

When you want to allow the docs team members to maintain docs within a code repo, while giving the docs team autonomy over their own reviews and merges, you can use a protected branch and a CODEOWNERS file.

Adopting Docs-as-Code: From Hackathon to Production

Sysdig’s journey from unstructured to structured, and finally, to semi-structured authoring and how Sysdig hackathon enabled designing their homegrown docs-like-code solution.

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

Yes You Can Use GitHub Pages with Python Sphinx

Learn some pro tips to build Python Sphinx developer docs to both GitHub Pages and your local system.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 3: Community

Welcome to part 3 of our article series where we explore how we collaborate with our community.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 1: Information Architecture

This article series describes our process for building the platformOS documentation site, with in-depth insights into our approach, decisions, and plans. In this part, we share how we started, how we got to know our audience, how we figured out what content we need, and how we outlined a sitemap for our documentation site.

Docs-as-Code: Don’t stop dreaming

When faced with tough problems, don’t stop working, try new things, and achieve your docs-as-code dream.

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

What about wikis? Content management and change management

Anne Gentle, the original wiki aficionado from the mid-2000s, discusses their relevance today.

Free and Open Source API Documentation Tools - Pronovix, Diána Lakatos

Diána Lakatos, a technical writer with developer portal creation specialists Pronovix, explores free and open source API documentation solutions. Her compiled results of the research were originally posted on the Pronovix blog.

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

Case Study - Pantheon, Rachel Whitton

In this use case, the Technical Content Editor at Pantheon, Rachel Whitton, describes their use of GitHub for documentation on a platform for WordPress and Drupal.

Coming Soon - Write Docs Like Code Ebook

What do you want to know about these techniques?

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GitHub

Protecting a Branch so Only the Docs Team Merges and Publishes

When you want to allow the docs team members to maintain docs within a code repo, while giving the docs team autonomy over their own reviews and merges, you can use a protected branch and a CODEOWNERS file.

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

Video Presentations about Docs Like Code

In the last three years of Write the Docs conferences, you can learn from others experiences using docs like code techniques.

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

Case Study - Pantheon, Rachel Whitton

In this use case, the Technical Content Editor at Pantheon, Rachel Whitton, describes their use of GitHub for documentation on a platform for WordPress and Drupal.

Coming Soon - Write Docs Like Code Ebook

What do you want to know about these techniques?

Remodeling documentation

Make sure you have a punch list of doc bugs to get higher quality results.

Building Docs Like Code

Let’s look at a live example.

Quality Tracking with GitHub for Docs

What do you do when people say, ‘The Docs Suck.’?

Collaborating on GitHub for Documentation

When you work with others, your deliverables win.

Back to Top ↑

git

Survey results for learning and teaching docs-like-code techniques

Review the results of a mid-2020 survey about learning and teaching team mates and yourself how to work with docs like code, Git, and GitHub for technical documentation.

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

Yes You Can Use GitHub Pages with Python Sphinx

Learn some pro tips to build Python Sphinx developer docs to both GitHub Pages and your local system.

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

Video Presentations about Docs Like Code

In the last three years of Write the Docs conferences, you can learn from others experiences using docs like code techniques.

Transforming Developer and Support Documentation with Docs Like Code

At Rackspace, we recently modernized our customer documentation, implementing a model that treats documents like code.

Remodeling documentation

Make sure you have a punch list of doc bugs to get higher quality results.

Building Docs Like Code

Let’s look at a live example.

Quality Tracking with GitHub for Docs

What do you do when people say, ‘The Docs Suck.’?

Collaborating on GitHub for Documentation

When you work with others, your deliverables win.

Back to Top ↑

documentation

Survey results for learning and teaching docs-like-code techniques

Review the results of a mid-2020 survey about learning and teaching team mates and yourself how to work with docs like code, Git, and GitHub for technical documentation.

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

Yes You Can Use GitHub Pages with Python Sphinx

Learn some pro tips to build Python Sphinx developer docs to both GitHub Pages and your local system.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 3: Community

Welcome to part 3 of our article series where we explore how we collaborate with our community.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 1: Information Architecture

This article series describes our process for building the platformOS documentation site, with in-depth insights into our approach, decisions, and plans. In this part, we share how we started, how we got to know our audience, how we figured out what content we need, and how we outlined a sitemap for our documentation site.

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

What about wikis? Content management and change management

Anne Gentle, the original wiki aficionado from the mid-2000s, discusses their relevance today.

Free and Open Source API Documentation Tools - Pronovix, Diána Lakatos

Diána Lakatos, a technical writer with developer portal creation specialists Pronovix, explores free and open source API documentation solutions. Her compiled results of the research were originally posted on the Pronovix blog.

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repos

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

Case Study - Pantheon, Rachel Whitton

In this use case, the Technical Content Editor at Pantheon, Rachel Whitton, describes their use of GitHub for documentation on a platform for WordPress and Drupal.

Coming Soon - Write Docs Like Code Ebook

What do you want to know about these techniques?

Back to Top ↑

case study

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

Case Study - Pantheon, Rachel Whitton

In this use case, the Technical Content Editor at Pantheon, Rachel Whitton, describes their use of GitHub for documentation on a platform for WordPress and Drupal.

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use case

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

Case Study - Pantheon, Rachel Whitton

In this use case, the Technical Content Editor at Pantheon, Rachel Whitton, describes their use of GitHub for documentation on a platform for WordPress and Drupal.

Back to Top ↑

collaboration

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

Video Presentations about Docs Like Code

In the last three years of Write the Docs conferences, you can learn from others experiences using docs like code techniques.

Transforming Developer and Support Documentation with Docs Like Code

At Rackspace, we recently modernized our customer documentation, implementing a model that treats documents like code.

Collaborating on GitHub for Documentation

When you work with others, your deliverables win.

Back to Top ↑

tools

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

Back to Top ↑

wireframes

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Back to Top ↑

cicd

Protecting a Branch so Only the Docs Team Merges and Publishes

When you want to allow the docs team members to maintain docs within a code repo, while giving the docs team autonomy over their own reviews and merges, you can use a protected branch and a CODEOWNERS file.

Adopting Docs-as-Code: From Hackathon to Production

Sysdig’s journey from unstructured to structured, and finally, to semi-structured authoring and how Sysdig hackathon enabled designing their homegrown docs-like-code solution.

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

Docs-as-Code: Don’t stop dreaming

When faced with tough problems, don’t stop working, try new things, and achieve your docs-as-code dream.

Back to Top ↑

developer documentation

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 3: Community

Welcome to part 3 of our article series where we explore how we collaborate with our community.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 1: Information Architecture

This article series describes our process for building the platformOS documentation site, with in-depth insights into our approach, decisions, and plans. In this part, we share how we started, how we got to know our audience, how we figured out what content we need, and how we outlined a sitemap for our documentation site.

Back to Top ↑

developers

Building Docs Like Code

Let’s look at a live example.

Quality Tracking with GitHub for Docs

What do you do when people say, ‘The Docs Suck.’?

Collaborating on GitHub for Documentation

When you work with others, your deliverables win.

Back to Top ↑

writers

Building Docs Like Code

Let’s look at a live example.

Quality Tracking with GitHub for Docs

What do you do when people say, ‘The Docs Suck.’?

Collaborating on GitHub for Documentation

When you work with others, your deliverables win.

Back to Top ↑

testing

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

Building Docs Like Code

Let’s look at a live example.

Quality Tracking with GitHub for Docs

What do you do when people say, ‘The Docs Suck.’?

Back to Top ↑

balsamiq

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Back to Top ↑

static sites

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Back to Top ↑

hugo

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Back to Top ↑

gif

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Back to Top ↑

animated gifs

Lists Get a Makeover - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Give list pages a makeover using Hugo, a static site generator, with source files on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Animated GIFs Pause and Play - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn how to play and pause animated GIFs on static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq.

Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard

Learn useful techniques for static sites such as Hugo on GitHub from Leon Barnard, Designer and Writer at Balsamiq. He describes documenting multiple versions of a product with a Go-coded solution.

Back to Top ↑

github

Survey results for learning and teaching docs-like-code techniques

Review the results of a mid-2020 survey about learning and teaching team mates and yourself how to work with docs like code, Git, and GitHub for technical documentation.

Yes You Can Use GitHub Pages with Python Sphinx

Learn some pro tips to build Python Sphinx developer docs to both GitHub Pages and your local system.

Transforming Developer and Support Documentation with Docs Like Code

At Rackspace, we recently modernized our customer documentation, implementing a model that treats documents like code.

Back to Top ↑

editorial workflow

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 3: Community

Welcome to part 3 of our article series where we explore how we collaborate with our community.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

Back to Top ↑

developer

Survey results for learning and teaching docs-like-code techniques

Review the results of a mid-2020 survey about learning and teaching team mates and yourself how to work with docs like code, Git, and GitHub for technical documentation.

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

Yes You Can Use GitHub Pages with Python Sphinx

Learn some pro tips to build Python Sphinx developer docs to both GitHub Pages and your local system.

Back to Top ↑

improvement

Building Docs Like Code

Let’s look at a live example.

Quality Tracking with GitHub for Docs

What do you do when people say, ‘The Docs Suck.’?

Back to Top ↑

quality

Building Docs Like Code

Let’s look at a live example.

Quality Tracking with GitHub for Docs

What do you do when people say, ‘The Docs Suck.’?

Back to Top ↑

gitbook

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

Coming Soon - Write Docs Like Code Ebook

What do you want to know about these techniques?

Back to Top ↑

book

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

Coming Soon - Write Docs Like Code Ebook

What do you want to know about these techniques?

Back to Top ↑

workflows

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

Case Study - Pantheon, Rachel Whitton

In this use case, the Technical Content Editor at Pantheon, Rachel Whitton, describes their use of GitHub for documentation on a platform for WordPress and Drupal.

Back to Top ↑

swagger

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

Back to Top ↑

openapi

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

Back to Top ↑

api

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

Back to Top ↑

API documentation

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

Free and Open Source API Documentation Tools - Pronovix, Diána Lakatos

Diána Lakatos, a technical writer with developer portal creation specialists Pronovix, explores free and open source API documentation solutions. Her compiled results of the research were originally posted on the Pronovix blog.

Back to Top ↑

open source

What about wikis? Content management and change management

Anne Gentle, the original wiki aficionado from the mid-2000s, discusses their relevance today.

Free and Open Source API Documentation Tools - Pronovix, Diána Lakatos

Diána Lakatos, a technical writer with developer portal creation specialists Pronovix, explores free and open source API documentation solutions. Her compiled results of the research were originally posted on the Pronovix blog.

Back to Top ↑

transformation

Video Presentations about Docs Like Code

In the last three years of Write the Docs conferences, you can learn from others experiences using docs like code techniques.

Transforming Developer and Support Documentation with Docs Like Code

At Rackspace, we recently modernized our customer documentation, implementing a model that treats documents like code.

Back to Top ↑

Hugo

Adopting Docs-as-Code: From Hackathon to Production

Sysdig’s journey from unstructured to structured, and finally, to semi-structured authoring and how Sysdig hackathon enabled designing their homegrown docs-like-code solution.

Docs-as-Code: Don’t stop dreaming

When faced with tough problems, don’t stop working, try new things, and achieve your docs-as-code dream.

Back to Top ↑

Go

Adopting Docs-as-Code: From Hackathon to Production

Sysdig’s journey from unstructured to structured, and finally, to semi-structured authoring and how Sysdig hackathon enabled designing their homegrown docs-like-code solution.

Docs-as-Code: Don’t stop dreaming

When faced with tough problems, don’t stop working, try new things, and achieve your docs-as-code dream.

Back to Top ↑

UX

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 1: Information Architecture

This article series describes our process for building the platformOS documentation site, with in-depth insights into our approach, decisions, and plans. In this part, we share how we started, how we got to know our audience, how we figured out what content we need, and how we outlined a sitemap for our documentation site.

Back to Top ↑

community

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 3: Community

Welcome to part 3 of our article series where we explore how we collaborate with our community.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

Back to Top ↑

style guide

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 3: Community

Welcome to part 3 of our article series where we explore how we collaborate with our community.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

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templates

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 3: Community

Welcome to part 3 of our article series where we explore how we collaborate with our community.

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

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backstage

Setting up Techdocs on Backstage

Techdocs is Spotify’s homegrown docs like code solution. it allows the user to store documentation to near code thus allowing it to be easily discovered.

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

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spotify

Setting up Techdocs on Backstage

Techdocs is Spotify’s homegrown docs like code solution. it allows the user to store documentation to near code thus allowing it to be easily discovered.

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

Back to Top ↑

GitHub,

The Vocabulary of GitHub for Documentation

What would happen if we treated docs like code?

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git,

The Vocabulary of GitHub for Documentation

What would happen if we treated docs like code?

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definitions,

The Vocabulary of GitHub for Documentation

What would happen if we treated docs like code?

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repository,

The Vocabulary of GitHub for Documentation

What would happen if we treated docs like code?

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branch,

The Vocabulary of GitHub for Documentation

What would happen if we treated docs like code?

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fork,

The Vocabulary of GitHub for Documentation

What would happen if we treated docs like code?

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pull

The Vocabulary of GitHub for Documentation

What would happen if we treated docs like code?

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request]

The Vocabulary of GitHub for Documentation

What would happen if we treated docs like code?

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issues

Remodeling documentation

Make sure you have a punch list of doc bugs to get higher quality results.

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bugs

Remodeling documentation

Make sure you have a punch list of doc bugs to get higher quality results.

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technical debt

Remodeling documentation

Make sure you have a punch list of doc bugs to get higher quality results.

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backlog

Remodeling documentation

Make sure you have a punch list of doc bugs to get higher quality results.

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ebook

Coming Soon - Write Docs Like Code Ebook

What do you want to know about these techniques?

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epub

Coming Soon - Write Docs Like Code Ebook

What do you want to know about these techniques?

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web

Case Study - Pantheon, Rachel Whitton

In this use case, the Technical Content Editor at Pantheon, Rachel Whitton, describes their use of GitHub for documentation on a platform for WordPress and Drupal.

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content

Case Study - Pantheon, Rachel Whitton

In this use case, the Technical Content Editor at Pantheon, Rachel Whitton, describes their use of GitHub for documentation on a platform for WordPress and Drupal.

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javadoc

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

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doxygen

Case Study - Symantec, Jennifer Rondeau

Jennifer Rondeau, Technical Writing Manager at Capital One, talks about her experiences as a Principal Information Developer at Symantec integrating code and documentation tightly.

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dapperdox

Documenting APIs with Swagger - Lucas Systems, Adam Locke

Integrating Swagger/OpenAPI files from code with documentation.

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API docs

Free and Open Source API Documentation Tools - Pronovix, Diána Lakatos

Diána Lakatos, a technical writer with developer portal creation specialists Pronovix, explores free and open source API documentation solutions. Her compiled results of the research were originally posted on the Pronovix blog.

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API documentation generators

Free and Open Source API Documentation Tools - Pronovix, Diána Lakatos

Diána Lakatos, a technical writer with developer portal creation specialists Pronovix, explores free and open source API documentation solutions. Her compiled results of the research were originally posted on the Pronovix blog.

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wiki

What about wikis? Content management and change management

Anne Gentle, the original wiki aficionado from the mid-2000s, discusses their relevance today.

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rest api

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

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standards

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

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raml

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

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stripe

DevOps-friendly Docs Publishing for APIs

From Mandy Whaley’s presentation at All Day DevOps 2017.

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rackspace

Transforming Developer and Support Documentation with Docs Like Code

At Rackspace, we recently modernized our customer documentation, implementing a model that treats documents like code.

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support

Transforming Developer and Support Documentation with Docs Like Code

At Rackspace, we recently modernized our customer documentation, implementing a model that treats documents like code.

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writethedocs

Video Presentations about Docs Like Code

In the last three years of Write the Docs conferences, you can learn from others experiences using docs like code techniques.

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video

Video Presentations about Docs Like Code

In the last three years of Write the Docs conferences, you can learn from others experiences using docs like code techniques.

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conferences

Video Presentations about Docs Like Code

In the last three years of Write the Docs conferences, you can learn from others experiences using docs like code techniques.

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engineering

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

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security

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

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jekyll

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

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static site

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

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change

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

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culture

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

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teamwork

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

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development

Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code

Changing from a content management system to Jekyll and all the change that undertaking took.

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publishing

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

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lulu

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

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self-publishing

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

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design

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

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layout

Practical Advice On Publishing A Technical Book using GitHub and GitBook

What does it take to publish a technical book using GitHub? Let’s dig into tools, processes, revenue, and costs.

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circleci

Docs-as-Code: Don’t stop dreaming

When faced with tough problems, don’t stop working, try new things, and achieve your docs-as-code dream.

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cloudify

Docs-as-Code: Don’t stop dreaming

When faced with tough problems, don’t stop working, try new things, and achieve your docs-as-code dream.

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Docker

Docs-as-Code: Don’t stop dreaming

When faced with tough problems, don’t stop working, try new things, and achieve your docs-as-code dream.

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Design Thinking

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 1: Information Architecture

This article series describes our process for building the platformOS documentation site, with in-depth insights into our approach, decisions, and plans. In this part, we share how we started, how we got to know our audience, how we figured out what content we need, and how we outlined a sitemap for our documentation site.

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Information Architecture

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 1: Information Architecture

This article series describes our process for building the platformOS documentation site, with in-depth insights into our approach, decisions, and plans. In this part, we share how we started, how we got to know our audience, how we figured out what content we need, and how we outlined a sitemap for our documentation site.

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Content-First Design

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 2: Content Production and Layouts

Welcome to part 2 of our article series where we discuss how content production started, and how we created the layouts and navigation for the site.

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contributor experience

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 3: Community

Welcome to part 3 of our article series where we explore how we collaborate with our community.

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python

Yes You Can Use GitHub Pages with Python Sphinx

Learn some pro tips to build Python Sphinx developer docs to both GitHub Pages and your local system.

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sphinx

Yes You Can Use GitHub Pages with Python Sphinx

Learn some pro tips to build Python Sphinx developer docs to both GitHub Pages and your local system.

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contribution

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

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QA

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

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performance

Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation

Welcome to part 4 of our article series, where we take a look under the hood, discuss the technologies we used, how we built our auto-generated API Reference, and how we use GitHub for our docs as code workflow and more.

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portal

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

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internal

Ten tips for maintaining a long-term relationship with docs like code

Learn about one team’s journey to keep a long-term relationship with their docs-like-code system, TechDocs, which is open source and available to all.

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learning

Survey results for learning and teaching docs-like-code techniques

Review the results of a mid-2020 survey about learning and teaching team mates and yourself how to work with docs like code, Git, and GitHub for technical documentation.

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teaching

Survey results for learning and teaching docs-like-code techniques

Review the results of a mid-2020 survey about learning and teaching team mates and yourself how to work with docs like code, Git, and GitHub for technical documentation.

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docs-like-code

Survey results for learning and teaching docs-like-code techniques

Review the results of a mid-2020 survey about learning and teaching team mates and yourself how to work with docs like code, Git, and GitHub for technical documentation.

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onboarding

Survey results for learning and teaching docs-like-code techniques

Review the results of a mid-2020 survey about learning and teaching team mates and yourself how to work with docs like code, Git, and GitHub for technical documentation.

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TechDocs

Setting up Techdocs on Backstage

Techdocs is Spotify’s homegrown docs like code solution. it allows the user to store documentation to near code thus allowing it to be easily discovered.

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roadie

Setting up Techdocs on Backstage

Techdocs is Spotify’s homegrown docs like code solution. it allows the user to store documentation to near code thus allowing it to be easily discovered.

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mkdocs

Setting up Techdocs on Backstage

Techdocs is Spotify’s homegrown docs like code solution. it allows the user to store documentation to near code thus allowing it to be easily discovered.

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service catalog

Setting up Techdocs on Backstage

Techdocs is Spotify’s homegrown docs like code solution. it allows the user to store documentation to near code thus allowing it to be easily discovered.

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sysdig

Adopting Docs-as-Code: From Hackathon to Production

Sysdig’s journey from unstructured to structured, and finally, to semi-structured authoring and how Sysdig hackathon enabled designing their homegrown docs-like-code solution.

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docker

Adopting Docs-as-Code: From Hackathon to Production

Sysdig’s journey from unstructured to structured, and finally, to semi-structured authoring and how Sysdig hackathon enabled designing their homegrown docs-like-code solution.

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reviews

Protecting a Branch so Only the Docs Team Merges and Publishes

When you want to allow the docs team members to maintain docs within a code repo, while giving the docs team autonomy over their own reviews and merges, you can use a protected branch and a CODEOWNERS file.

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settings

Protecting a Branch so Only the Docs Team Merges and Publishes

When you want to allow the docs team members to maintain docs within a code repo, while giving the docs team autonomy over their own reviews and merges, you can use a protected branch and a CODEOWNERS file.

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