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 Tools That Actually Execute Your Arazzo Workflows
I have spent a good chunk of this year authoring Arazzo across my network — more than 5,000 workflow files spanning 543 API providers, plus another 255 that deliberately cross p...
OpenAPI Overlays for Deprecation and Migration Choreography
Deprecation is where most API programs quietly fall apart. Not because teams don’t know how to sunset an operation, but because they do it by hand, one operation at a time, acro...
If We Publish Our API Documentation Our Competition Will Just Copy What We Do
I wrote yesterday about how people tell me they have partner APIs instead of public APIs, and continuing on this same theme of excuses I hear from API producers, I wanted to exp...
GraphQL as Connective Tissue
I have spent enough years watching people love GraphQL for the wrong reasons and hate it for the wrong reasons that I want to step around both of those piles entirely and talk a...
Every Ad On My Network Was Invisible To Agents
Ten days ago I spent an afternoon with curl figuring out how Time serves ads to AI agents, because the trade press covered the business arrangement and openly said they could no...
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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