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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Your Diverse API Toolbox
I have been writing about this since March 2017, kept expanding it through 2018 with a diagram that I brought to talks and workshops, and reinforced it again in 2020. Coming bac...
History of API Evangelist
One story I’ve told many times, but couldn’t find in my own historical archives of API Evangelist, is the origin story of API Evangelist itself. I am learning that the stories I...
API Value Exchange
I have been writing about API monetization since 2011. Not consistently, but in recurring waves — whenever the business reality of APIs forces itself back to the surface. Early ...
Industrial Manufacturing APIs and the AI Integration Gap
I spent the last week cataloging the industrial manufacturing API landscape, doing a proper inventory of what is out there, what APIs providers expose, what vocabulary they use ...
The APIs of the World's Top Universities — 634 of Them, and Most Are Library Plumbing
I pulled the API surface for 219 of the world’s top-ranked universities — the QS World University Rankings 2025 set that I built into the API Evangelist network — and went looki...
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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This site is the active daily working toolbox for Kin Lane. Feel free to explore the toolbox, you won't break anything. API Evangelist works out in the open to encourage the reuse of our work, while also demonstrating the potential of evangelizing your API work as it occurs.
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