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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Three Hundred Eighty-Nine Agent Cards Are Live, And We Are Not Counting Ours
We built an AI agents market for the Kin Score this week, and it is the first market where the strongest evidence is something a provider publishes about itself. What we read ...
The Incumbent And The Challenger: NCR Voyix And Lightspeed
I hear the same thing in almost every enterprise conversation I have. We can’t have a public developer portal. We can’t publish our API documentation. Our customers are big, our...
Five Thousand Official SDKs, And Nine Thousand That Are Not
One of the markets we built this week isn’t an industry at all. It cuts across the whole catalog: which API providers publish their own official SDKs. How we measured it We st...
DeepInfer And The Shape Of The Answer
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer last week, the inference framework that powers its own large-scale production services. It is Apache 2.0 licensed, it runs DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on...
A Listing Is Not A Certification
When you build a market layer out of public registers, you quickly find two very different kinds of entry, and the Kin Score has to treat them differently. Two kinds of entry ...
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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