Developer Portal
Once you have configured your carefully planned out Provider Organization, Catalogs, and spaces, you can technically begin developing and publishing your APIs and products. Although you might be tempted to jump right into this, there is one final piece we must configure so that the consumers can discover your APIs—the Developer Portal. You might develop the most useful APIs going, but as we said earlier in this chapter – if no one can find them, they aren't much good.
The Developer Portal is the place developers will go to discover and register for your APIs that are available. This is where you will socialize your APIs to the outside world. This is their window into your API organization. In addition to socializing your APIs, the Developer Portal also provides analytics, forums, blogs, and rating facilities.
Since this is where the consumers of your APIs will go to find them, the Developer Portal will be a representation of your company...