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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Zoho Quietly Shipped The Largest MCP Vocabulary Deployment
One key, 342 occurrences, 37 OpenAPI documents. x-mcp-group in Zoho Inventory’s contracts is the highest-volume agent-facing extension deployment I found anywhere in the catalog...
One Review Turned the Arazzo gRPC Pull Request Into an RPC Pull Request
The third pull request in the Arazzo 1.2 queue is the one I want people to read as a story about review, not just as a feature. PR #556 from Naresh Jain adds Protocol Buffer RPC...
Windmill And The First Collision In The MCP Vocabulary
Yesterday I wrote about Wistia’s nine-key agent vocabulary, which is careful, coherent, and used by exactly one company. Today, Windmill — six keys, also coherent, and the first...
VS Code Is Finally Catching Up With JSON Schema 2020-12
For most of the last six years, if you opened a JSON Schema 2020-12 document in VS Code, the editor quietly fell back to draft-07 behavior and hoped for the best. Completion wor...
I Mapped How Nine API Specifications Point At Each Other
I get asked some version of the same question every week. How does Arazzo relate to OpenAPI? Do I need AsyncAPI if I have MCP? Where does Spectral fit? Is A2A competing with MCP...
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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