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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VCs Bet the Fund on Agents. Do Their Portfolios Have the Foundation?
Every venture capital firm has the same positioning right now. Agentic is the priority. It is where the next fund goes, it is the memo they send their limited partners, and it i...
OpenAPI Overlays for Visual Authoring Without Hand-Writing JSONPath
I keep coming back to overlays in this series unpacking the many use cases because they solve a problem I have watched play out on every team I have ever worked with: the people...
On The Need for Artifacts That Describe API Products
My friend Daniel Kocot over at Adorsys has another thought-provoking and specification-evolving post over at Architectural Bytes this week. I sure do love having other deep-thin...
Okta Has the Endpoint for Programmatic Onboarding, It Just Hides the Door
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company is telling me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that software will soon provision and operate itself. And the...
Governing What Agents Are Allowed to Consume
For a couple of weeks now I have been walking through the governance tools I have been building under API Commons, one per day, and this is the last one in that run. I saved it ...
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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