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This white paper is currently only available to the subscribers of our \"Developer portals & API docs\" mailinglist. Sign up to get a copy. You can also read the posts the white paper was edited from on our blog.

We conducted an in-depth information architecture study of the documentation components used on 10 developer portals, searching for patterns. This is the first of 3 white papers in which we make an attempt at extracting best practices - all in order to help you build a better developer portal.

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