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 Agent Hype is at Odds with Your API Foundation
Yesterday I shared the panel on designing for the agentic experience from Nordic APIs Summit in Stockholm. Today it’s my closing talk from later that same day, which I’ve also a...
Forty-Four Percent Of Job Postings Said Workday And The Word Was Ours
For five weeks I have been putting numbers from job postings in front of you. MCP in 102 companies, Claude in 380, Sarbanes-Oxley in 518. Before the Q4 read lands on November 20...
A Quick Read On Engineering Maturity From The Outside
Someone who works at a software vendor told me about an interesting exercise recently. They looked up their own company on APIs.io, then their competitors, then a lot of the sof...
Get Notified When A Smartsheet Changes And Connect It To Your Other Tools
A lot of teams run projects in Smartsheet and then spend part of every day checking it: did someone update that row, did the status change, has the new request come in. Then the...
Manage TikTok Ad Campaigns And TikTok Shop Orders Automatically With The TikTok API
If your business sells on TikTok, you probably know the routine: building ad campaigns in one screen, checking orders in another, updating products by hand, printing shipping la...
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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