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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Manage Employee Accounts, Sign-In And App Access With Okta
Every time someone joins your company, they need accounts in a dozen applications. Every time someone leaves, those accounts need to close, quickly. In between, people change ro...
Request Local Deliveries, Sync Menus And Manage Orders With DoorDash
If you run a restaurant, a grocery store or a shop, you have probably wondered how to get orders to customers’ doors without hiring drivers, or how to keep your menu and prices ...
Create Cards, Update Boards And Get Notified Of Changes With Trello
Most teams already track their work somewhere, and for a lot of them that place is a Trello board. The trouble is that work arrives from everywhere else: a support ticket, a for...
Convert Leads Into Deals And Manage Contact Roles With Zoho CRM
If you sell to other businesses, the moment a lead turns into a real opportunity matters. Someone has to turn that lead into a contact, an account and a deal, and then keep trac...
Find Nearby Businesses And Points Of Interest With Google Places
Plenty of businesses need to answer one simple question over and over: what is near this spot? A delivery service wants the restaurants within a few blocks of a customer. A trav...
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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