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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Pull Google Search, Maps And Jobs Results Into Your Business With SerpApi
If you have ever caught yourself copying search results into a spreadsheet by hand, checking where your business shows up on Google Maps, watching which jobs a competitor is pos...
The Technical Side Translated. The Business Side Did Not.
For more than a decade I’ve showcased the common building blocks of an API. Documentation, a getting started page, SDKs, authentication, sign-up, pricing, rate limits, terms of ...
Scan A Whole Sector Before You Trust Your Sense Of It
One group I talked with recently spent their time looking at companies across banking and accounting rather than at their own. They came away with two observations: the companie...
Lint An Agent Skill Before You Hand It To An Agent
Agent skills are piling up. A SKILL.md is a Markdown file with a little YAML frontmatter on top, and it tells an agent when to pick up a capability and how to use it. Teams are ...
Insurance: A Bundle Without The Shape Behind The Login
I’ve been building bundles that pair a JSON Schema with OpenLint-format rules, after finding out that the decoder only pours part of the bedrock. Insurance is the awkward one, a...
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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