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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Make Calls, Send Texts And Register Your Brand For SMS With Twilio
You want to text a customer when their order ships, call them back when a form is submitted, or put a small support desk behind one phone number without buying a phone system. N...
OpenAI API Pricing: What Every Model Costs Per Million Tokens
When people ask me what the OpenAI API costs, they usually want one number. There isn’t one. OpenAI sells its API on metered usage: you pay per million tokens, a token being rou...
Publish Offers, Ship Orders And Print Shipping Labels With eBay
You sell on eBay, and the selling part is fine. It is everything around it that eats the week: keying the same listing in for the third time, marking orders shipped one by one, ...
Where A Score Fits In Your CI Pipeline And Your Developer Portal
Two good tooling questions came up in a recent conversation about the Kin Score. Should you run it in CI on every change, watching it go up and down like code coverage? And can ...
Rethinking The API Free Tier In The Agentic Age
There are a lot of changes happening to the economics of APIs that are powering our applications. The free or freemium tier that has been a staple of SaaS and API plans and pric...
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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