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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The Standards That Make Your Business Agent-Ready
“Agent-ready” has become one of those phrases that means whatever the person saying it needs it to mean. So I want to be specific about what it means in the Kin Score, because t...
The Four Ways Providers React To A Kin Score
On a planning call a few weeks ago I said something out loud that I had been sorting in my head for months: there are four ways a company reacts when I publish a Kin Score about...
What Are the Humans and the Bots Doing on My Sites
I have been saying “16% human” out loud for a couple of months. I said it on camera when someone asked me why I don’t have the reach I used to, and I said it again on a planning...
Pipedrive Put A Price On Every Tool Call
Pipedrive uses x-tool-description, which by now is a familiar shape in this series — an agent-facing description separate from the developer one: Retrieves paginated active ...
Kin Score 0.23: The London Release
Version 0.23.0 of the Kin Score is live. I had pinned it to API Days London on September 30th and froze the rubric on September 13th to hit that date. Then I shipped it five day...
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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