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Are you ready to level up your docs with docs-as-code?

  • Presentation
  • Level up your technical communication
  • 20. September
  • 14:35 - 15:20 PM (CET)
  • Titanium
  • finished
  • Presentation Slides
  •  Petra Herbst

    Petra Herbst

    • viesure Innovation Center GmbH

Contents

In these days, almost everyone in the tech docs community has heard about docs-as-code or docs-like-code, but what exactly are these? What differentiates this way of producing documentation from other ways and tools? How can they be implemented? What knowledge is needed? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Can everyone do this? What does this look like in real life?

Takeaways

You'll learn more about the main components of docs-as-code and how they can be used, who might need them, who doesn't, what the advantages and disadvantages are and how I use them in my everyday work life.

Prior knowledge

Being familiar with software development processes and markdown files used in software documentation

Speaker

 Petra Herbst

Petra Herbst

  • viesure Innovation Center GmbH
Biography

1996 – 2002 ITAT Graz University

2001 – 2009 Localization Coordinator and Technical Writer @Hyperwave Software

2009 – 2016 Head of Documentation @Unycom Software

2016 – 2019 Coordinator Technical Documentation @BearingPoint

2019 – 2020 Content Manager / Technical Writer @Travis CI

2020 – today Product Advocate & Technical Writer @viesure innovation center GmbH

2021 - today lecturer at FH Joanneum Graz - Technical Documentation @Department of Media & Design