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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Cloudflare Hands You a Token, but Only If You Click Through the Dashboard First
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company on earth is telling me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that software will provision and operate itself. And...
OpenAPI Overlays for Monetization and Plan Tiering From One Spec
I have watched too many teams maintain three sets of documentation for one API because they sell it three ways. There is the Free tier docs that pretend the premium endpoints do...
Students Cheating with AI, But Really the Tech Companies Are Cheating
I was talking with my wife about the work I am doing with my intern this summer around the usage and adoption of artificial intelligence on campus. My wife is an expert in educa...
Kinde Has the Plumbing for Programmatic Onboarding, It Just Skips the Front Door
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company tells me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that software is going to provision and call software without a hu...
Show Your Work: Governing an API Standard with ADRs and Attacker Models
This is the seventh post in my series on Germany’s federal API authorization blueprint. The last six posts walked the technology. This one is about the thing I think will outlas...
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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