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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Open Responses Gets A Neutral Home, And A Baseline
OpenAI has donated Open Responses, its specification for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation, the Linux Foundation home that already holds MCP, A2A and AGENTS.md. The...
Insurance: The Shape Of The Answer Is Behind A Login
Earlier this week I wrote about DeepInfer and the shape of the answer, and how batch-invariant inference, deterministic sampling and schema-constrained output move the hard prob...
If You Depend On OpenAPI Please Become a Member
I’m going to ask for money, so I’ll get straight to it. If your business depends on OpenAPI, please become a member of the OpenAPI Initiative. If you were a member and let it la...
Gateways Count Every Token And Charge For Almost None Of Them
Last month I came out of Josh Twist’s talk on MCP monetization in Stockholm arguing that API monetization is falling flat, and maybe it is the word. AI puts a cost on both sides...
API Monetization Is Falling Flat, Maybe It Is The Word
I sat in on Josh Twist’s talk on MCP monetization at the Nordic APIs Summit in Stockholm last week. Zuplo’s framing starts from Marc Benioff’s line about the end of the UI and t...
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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