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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The MCP Authentication and Authorization Gap
The part of the MCP story that keeps me up at night is not the tools, the prompts, or the discovery. It is authentication and authorization, because that is the part where the g...
RFC 10008 Left A Slot Open And Somebody Is Standing In It
Every API I have ever catalogued eventually grows a search endpoint, and every one of them has had to lie to get it. You cannot put a real filter in a URL — you hit length limit...
The Deterministic Integration Layer Is Being Built From Both Ends
My post arguing that agents should write code to integrate, not infer it at runtime got a lot of agreement, which is pleasant and not very useful. Two of the responses were usef...
Salesforce Actually Has a Create-An-App API, and Still Makes You Work for It
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company is “all in on AI,” every keynote has an agent in it, and yet when I actually try to get a piece of software to authenticate it...
I Graded Everyone Else's Onboarding. Here Is Mine.
For a few months now I have been walking through the front doors of the companies that call themselves the infrastructure of the modern internet, and writing down what I found. ...
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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