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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Zoom Gets the Headless Half of Programmatic Onboarding Right
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company is “all in on AI” right now, every roadmap has an agent on it, every keynote promises autonomous software that goes off and do...
Mintlify Put Signup in the CLI When It Was Already in the Protocol
Mintlify shipped mint signup, a CLI command that creates a Mintlify account from the terminal so a coding agent never has to open a browser to get started. Their reasoning is ha...
Inside the Agent-Readiness Score
The API Evangelist Rating System gives every provider two scores, and the second one is the one I care about most right now: agent readiness. It is a standalone number from zero...
Atlassian Makes You Click Through a Console Before an Agent Can Touch Jira
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company on earth is telling me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that their platform is ready for an autonomous, mach...
Your Agentic Programmability Investment Is an API Foundation Investment
Almost every conversation I have right now about agentic programmability starts in the wrong place. There is budget, there is a mandate from somewhere above, and there is a shop...
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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