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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Publish Your APIs, Issue Developer Keys And Package API Products With Apigee
Your company has data or services that partners want to plug into. Maybe a customer has asked for a direct connection, or a partner wants to pull your pricing into their own sys...
Monitor Your Systems, Respond To Incidents And Track Cloud Costs With Datadog
Your site went down during a release last week, the person on call found out late, and the postmortem notes are scattered across three chat threads. Then the cloud bill arrived,...
Send Webhooks Reliably And Retry Failed Deliveries Automatically With Convoy
A customer says your system never told theirs about a new order. Your team says it did. Nobody can prove it either way, and the order is sitting in limbo while people trade scre...
Manage Support Tickets, Customer Records And Satisfaction Ratings With Zendesk
Customer questions are arriving by email, chat and phone, someone on your team is copying details from one system to another, and an unhappy rating sits unread until the custome...
Verify Insurance Eligibility, Check Claim Status And Handle Prior Authorization With Availity
A patient is due in tomorrow morning and someone at your front desk is on hold with an insurance company, trying to find out whether the coverage is active and what the co-pay w...
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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