Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2025

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9,800 Sandboxes and Counting: Transforming Documentation with Interactive Learning Environments


One of the reasons why Go is easy to learn is due to the interactive examples all through the documentation, we wanted to emulate this success. Six months later, we now manage 26 sandbox tutorials and totalled over 9,800 unique instances. They transformed our documentation by letting users run commands, deploy sample projects, and see real-world use cases come alive.

Scaling the concept to support over 10 products brought unique challenges for us. How could we streamline the creation of new sandbox tutorials? How could we maintain a single source of truth between our sandboxes and evolving documentation?

In this session, we’ll dive into: *What an interactive sandbox is and how it enhances developer experiences * How we created an open-source tool to automatically synchronize our documentation and sandboxes via CI/CD pipelines

This talk will help you get started integrating interactive sandboxes into your documentation and arm you with the tools you need to scale them effectively!

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Photo of Jay Clifford Jay Clifford