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 Agent Should Run Its Own Observability Stack
I wrote earlier today about the self-hosted seed as a business model — a domain-shaped application you plant on your own hardware and evolve with an LLM. That post was about the...
The Self-Hosted Seed Is The Next Business Model
This one is not my idea. It came out of my conversation with Sebastian Loch, who runs business development at fatsecret (apis.io). I asked him what part of the vibe-coding shift...
Every MCP Server Bakes In the Provider's Motivations
When a provider ships you an MCP server, they are not handing you a neutral window onto their capabilities. They are handing you a set of tools that someone at that company chos...
What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like When Discord Won't Let You Register an App
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company tells me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that software should be self-driving now. And then I go to get a c...
What Medusa Teaches Every MCP Author About Feedback
Every so often I read a post from a company that quietly reframes something I thought I already understood, and I have to go tell everyone about it. This time it is Medusa, the ...
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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