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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If You're Using Spectral, It Is Now Gathering Data About You — Opt Out
I spend a lot of time telling you to run Spectral, so I owe you the other half of the story. On June 30th a pull request landed in the Spectral repository with the entirely unre...
Health Gorilla and the Lab Order to Result Loop
Lab ordering is one of those healthcare workflows that looks simple from the outside and is anything but. You do not just call an endpoint and get a result back; you place an or...
CI/CD Pipelines Make Governance Consistent
The pipeline is where governance becomes non-optional, and more importantly, where it becomes consistent. The same Spectral ruleset that lives in your developers’ editors runs i...
What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like When the Door Is the Cloud Console — Apigee
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company I talk to is “all in on AI,” wiring up agents that are supposed to go discover an API, register themselves, and get to work. A...
The Consumer Decides the Gateway: API Governance at the Consumption Layer
I am giving a talk at APIDays Munich about the layer of API governance our industry keeps pretending does not exist. We have spent a decade obsessing over two of the three layer...
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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