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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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Browse AllReadMe Is Carrying Working Code In Eighty Companies Contracts
I found x-readme in eighty providers’ OpenAPI documents, 1,076 times across 320 files. Asana, 8x8, AppsFlyer, Fireblocks, Brandwatch, Ironclad, Demandbase, Bazaarvoice, Feedly, ...
What Three Models Say About Twenty-Two API Providers
I have been arguing that answer-engine visibility is downstream of whether a machine-readable description of you exists at all. That is an argument until somebody measures it, s...
The Good Parts of MCP: Prompts and Resources
Almost all of the noise about MCP has been about tools. Everybody ships tools, everybody argues about tools, everybody counts how many tools their server exposes as if that were...
The AWS API Gateway Extensions Are A De Facto Standard
There is a category of standard that nobody sets out to create. It happens when a thing gets large enough that its internal conventions become everybody’s conventions, not by ag...
Plumma Carries CAMARA's Vocabulary Without Its Endpoints
An Italian company called Plumma reached out to me last week about the state of operator APIs in Latin America, we had a short call, and then I did what I always do afterward — ...
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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