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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We Will Never Ask an LLM for a Nutrition Value
I have been asking data providers the same question for two years now — where do you draw the line on what AI is allowed to touch? — and I mostly get mush back. Everybody has a ...
The MCP Roadmap Is An API Roadmap
The MCP roadmap was updated on August 22nd, and I read it the way I read every roadmap that comes out of a fast-moving protocol: looking for the moment where the new thing stops...
OpenAPI Overlays for Test Fixtures and Mock Generation
Here is a tension I have watched play out on every API team I have ever worked with. The examples in your OpenAPI live a double life. On one hand they are marketing copy — the p...
Notion Hands You The Token, But Only After You Click
I keep coming back to the same wall. Onboarding to an API does not scale. We have built a generation of tools that are supposed to act on our behalf, that are supposed to wire t...
In Australian Banking, the API Is a Commodity — CDR Made It Table Stakes
I spent a decade skeptical of governments dictating APIs. My position was simple and, I thought, principled: companies should do APIs because they make sense, not because a regu...
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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