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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Run A Managed Graph Database And Predict Connections With Amazon Neptune
Some business questions are really questions about connections. Which customers are linked to the same fraudulent card? Which products are bought together? Who knows whom in you...
Connect To Your Customers Accounting, HR And CRM Systems With Merge
If you build software for other businesses, sooner or later every customer asks the same question: does it work with our accounting system, our HR system, our CRM? There are doz...
Send Contracts For Electronic Signature And Track Them With Docusign
Getting a contract signed should not mean printing, scanning and chasing people by email. If your business sends the same agreements over and over, whether offer letters, servic...
Send Marketing Email And Manage Contact Lists With SendGrid
If you run a business, you probably need to do two things with email that feel like they should be simpler than they are: keep a clean list of the people you are talking to, and...
Who Actually Gets To Define API Standards
Every API standard I’ve watched take shape was decided by somebody, and it was rarely the people who end up living with it. I’ve been thinking about this a lot since forking Spe...
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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