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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Six Standards Nobody Ratified, Measured Against What The Industry Built
Some of the most widely implemented API contracts in the world were never ratified by anybody. The S3 interface, the OpenAI API, CKAN’s Action API and Ethereum’s JSON-RPC became...
One Hundred Two Companies Hiring For MCP And The Enterprises Are Ahead
Last week I looked at how few of the companies we track name OpenAPI in their job postings. This week it is the protocol everyone in the API space has been arguing about for the...
Twenty-Five Thousand Overlays, And None Of Them Are Yours Yet
Last week I wrote about Overlay 1.2 and the fourteen jobs we already use Overlays for, and then about why an Overlay is a layer and not a diff. Both posts leaned on a number, th...
The Well-Known Folder Is Filling Up
I was reading through Open Resource Discovery this morning — SAP’s protocol, now under the Linux Foundation Europe’s NeoNephos, for a system to describe the APIs and events it e...
fx Is A Coding Agent That Tells You Which Parts Of MCP It Does Not Do
Vercel Labs has a new coding agent called fx. It is a small native binary, around 6MB, written in Zig, Apache-2.0 licensed, and on GitHub at version 0.0.13 with a banner telling...
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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