API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, policies, and people 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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Only Four API Providers Publish a Real .well-known/api-catalog Right Now
RFC 9727 has been a published IETF standard for over a year. It defines /.well-known/api-catalog as the machine entrypoint for discovering an organization’s APIs — a small, bori...
API Evangelist Scores 83% Agent-Ready — And the Last 17% Doesn't Apply
Cloudflare put out a new tool this week called isitagentready.com. You hand it a URL and it scans for the emerging conventions an agent would look for — robots.txt shape, Conten...
Signals, Stories, and Search
When we started Naftiko, we needed to understand the market we were entering. That meant getting clear on the market forces and the ideal customer profile, the segments and use ...
Who In The API Evangelist Network Has an MCP Server
I just did a fresh pass over every API provider in my network — 6201 repos in the API Evangelist Network — looking for explicit evidence that each provider ships an MCP (Model C...
The Bullshit Levels Came Down at APIDays NYC
I am just processing what happened the last couple of days at APIDays NYC. I spent Wednesday and Thursday. I love events that I can sleep at home each night, but I’d say that AP...
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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API Evangelist Conversation with Mike Amundsen on the Lineage of the Web, Hypermedia, Capabilities, and What Comes Next
Mike Amundsen has been writing about hypermedia, REST, microservices, and the semantics of the web for the better part of two decades. In this conversation we walk the lineage —...
API Evangelist Conversation With Derek Thompson of Ambassador
Derek Thompson of Ambassador came by for a discussion about code generation and artificial intelligence. I had began engaging with Derek's team about the importance of maintaini...
API Evangelist Conversation With Marc Laventure of Scalar
I sat down today with Marc Laventure of Scalar to talk about their API client and documentation offerings, and how they see OpenAPI as a specification. Marc's taken a slightly d...
About the API Evangelist Site
This site is the active daily working toolbox for Kin Lane. Feel free to explore the toolbox, you won't break anything. API Evangelist works out in the open to encourage the reuse of our work, while also demonstrating the potential of evangelizing your API work as it occurs.