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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What Adopting ReadMe Actually Moves On The Kin Score
Every API provider I score depends on vendors for part of its surface: a documentation platform, a gateway, an SDK generator, a status page, an identity provider. When a score m...
Twenty-Four Agent Bundles And Not One MCP Server
APIMatic has been generating SDKs from OpenAPI for eleven years. Last month they put up a public marketplace of agent context bundles at context.apimatic.io — twenty-four APIs, ...
The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Operational Transparency
This is part six of nine, one facet of the Kin Score each business day. Yesterday I covered Access Clarity, which asks whether you can figure out how to get in. Today is Operati...
Overlay 1.2, And The Fourteen Jobs We Already Use It For
The OpenAPI Initiative released Overlay 1.2.0 on September 22nd. I sat in on the release call, where Lorna Mitchell walked the editors through the steps, one branch and one pull...
One Hundred Forty-One Tools in the APIs.io MCP Server
Yesterday I walked through everything you can do with the APIs.io API. Today is the other door into the same catalog: the APIs.io MCP server. I asked the live server what it off...
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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