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 Medusa Teaches Every MCP Author About Feedback
Every so often I read a post from a company that quietly reframes something I thought I already understood, and I have to go tell everyone about it. This time it is Medusa, the ...
What Is Commercial Open Source, Really?
I have been going in circles on a question for months and I would rather work through it in public than keep pretending I have it figured out. What is commercial open source, ac...
Next MCP API Design
I have been using the MCP server for APIs.io, familiarizing myself with the nuance of each of the API operations I have extended as last mile MCP tools. I have been putting myse...
Low Composite, High Agent-Readiness: The Australian Banking Paradox
When I scored all fifty Australian banks in my catalog for the State of Australian Banking APIs sector report, two numbers came back that seem to contradict each other, and the ...
ClaudeBot Read My Entire Catalog in a Single Day
I turned on access logging across APIs.io and the rest of my network on August 13th, because I had gotten tired of talking about agent traffic without being able to point at any...
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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