API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
About API Evangelist
API Evangelist has worked for the last 15 years to make sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs, profiling public and private APIs and distilling down knowledge into a regular cadence of API storytelling, and weekly knowledge building sessions focused on schema, APIs, governance, operations, change, and evangelism.
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Medplum and FHIR as a Developer Backend
Medplum treats FHIR R4 as a developer backend, exposing the RESTful API as a generic create, read, update, search, and history surface parameterized by resource type. That gener...
Bringing Legacy Standards Into the Modern API Age
A lot of the standards that quietly run our world were written before the API era. They are thorough, hard-won, and often decades deep, but they live as PDFs, XML schemas, and p...
AWS API Gateway and the Self-Serve Onboarding It Refuses to Offer
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company tells me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that machines will soon be doing the integration work humans used ...
API Reviews and Provenance: Accountability Over Enforcement
Here is the reframe that finally made governance work for me, after years of getting it wrong. For a long time I thought the job was to make people comply. Get the teams to foll...
One Button, Every MCP Client
If you publish an MCP server today, the last mile to your users is a mess. You write out install instructions for Claude Desktop, then a different set for Cursor, then a deep li...
Understanding Our Relationship With Technology
API Evangelist has been working to understand our relationship with Internet technology for the last fifteen years, but it has primarily been focused on understanding the producers of the technology, where moving forward I am more interested in understanding the consumers of not just APIs, but the applications they build on top of APIs.
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