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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Send Logs, Set Up Alerts And Troubleshoot Slow Applications With New Relic
Your website is slow, your checkout just failed for three customers, and no one can say why. Your team is hunting through logs on separate systems, and you learned about the tro...
Test And Monitor Your APIs And Generate Client Libraries Automatically With Postman
If your business connects to other companies, or lets partners and customers connect to you, you probably depend on APIs, the connections that let one piece of software talk dir...
Transcribe Meetings, Create Voiceovers And Track Your AI Spending With OpenAI
Maybe you have a stack of meeting recordings nobody will ever listen to, product copy that needs a voiceover, or a growing AI bill nobody can explain. Typing into a chat window ...
Run Ad Campaigns, Capture Leads And Post Jobs Automatically With LinkedIn
If your business uses LinkedIn to find customers or hire people, you know how much of it is manual. You adjust budgets by hand, download leads from a form and paste them into yo...
Create, Back Up And Restore Your Postgres Databases Automatically With Prisma
If your business runs on a web application, there is a database underneath it holding your customers, your orders and everything else you cannot afford to lose. You need a new o...
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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