The world is being eaten by software, and that makes selling to software engineers the one thing to nail for all infrastructure startups. Come learn from Sylvain Utard, VP of Engineering from Algolia, and how they created one of the world's best developer onboarding experiences.

00:00 Intro
01:15 Algolia is realtime fast customizable search, both backend and frontend
02:02 Tech giants can put 100s of devs on search. Algolia democratizes that.
03:34 Walking through the developer experience
03:45 The homepage
04:01 Evolving from self-serve to enterprise
04:16 Even if you sell by enterprise, showing value to developers immediately is still key
05:51 Garry's magical experience using Algolia
06:12 The docs drive you directly to the tutorial: Interactive is better
09:53 Design tip: Strong call to actions
10:42 Developer docs are only effective when they make devs feel powerful
11:56 How did Algolia implement their interactive developer docs?
13:01 How to support 9 runtimes? 15 engineers out of 100 are devoted to dev xp
14:43 Low bar high ceiling: the holy grail for products and services
16:56 How Sylvain got into tech
18:56 When your competition is 20 year old tech: Lucene and Sphinx
20:05 Career advice for engineers starting out
20:50 Algolia is hiring for remote and roles in SF and Paris

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Thanks to Sylvain and the whole Algolia team for making an amazing product and coming to sit with me.

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