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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The "We Are All In On Agentic" Shame Game
In my recent conversation with Zdenek Nemec, Z of Apiary and Superface fame, we talked about just how hard it is for agents to onboard with your APIs. I am painfully aware of th...
The Walls Companies Put Up In Front Of Agents
I have spent two days running our profiling pipeline hard against the backlog — a few hundred companies, each one probed the way an agent would probe it: fetch the front door, l...
The Kids Who've Come Up In Age of AI Will Approach Things Very Differently
One of the things Z and I talked about in our recent conversation (that is Zdenek Nemec, of Apiary and Superface) was his engagement with younger engineers and entrepreneurs abo...
MoEngage Decides Who Is Allowed To See A Tool
MoEngage uses x-moe-mcp, in their own namespace, and it packs two quite different concerns into one object: x-moe-mcp: expose: external: true internal: true tool_de...
Before You Buy An Agent Strategy, Map Your Capabilities
Every leadership team I talk to is being sold an agent strategy right now. Most of those roadmaps are organized by model and by vendor: which LLM, which platform, which copilot....
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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