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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Share Files And Add Maps, Places, And Routes To Your Business With Google
Most businesses already use Google every day, for documents, for maps, for finding customers and getting to them. What fewer people realize is that much of that is available as ...
Compare USPS, UPS, FedEx, And DHL Shipping Rates With SMKlog
If you ship parcels from the US, you have probably done this: open four carrier websites, type the same box dimensions into each, and compare prices by hand before buying a labe...
Run Your Catalog, Pricing, And Customers In Software With BigCommerce
If you sell online and your store keeps growing, the questions change. How do I give wholesale customers different prices? How do I make sure tax is calculated right on every or...
Automate Clusters, User Access, And Patching With Red Hat
If you are responsible for the servers and cloud systems your business runs on, the work never really stops: spin up an environment for a new project, give a new hire access, ru...
Manage Products, Orders, And Coupons For Your Online Store With WooCommerce
If you run an online store on WordPress, a lot of your week probably goes to the same chores: adding products, fixing a price on a variation, creating a coupon for a promotion, ...
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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