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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Trappings of Individual API Patterns and the Benefits of a Diverse API Toolbox
One thing you see in a lot of the storytelling around APIs over the years is that people easily get trapped within the creative confines of a single API design pattern. Some of ...
The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Regulatory Posture
This is the last of nine posts, one Kin Score facet each business day. Yesterday I covered Open Source Surface. Today is Regulatory Posture, and it asks one question: does your ...
Seventy-Nine Industries Ranked By Programmability, And The Opportunity Is At The Bottom
Someone asked me this week which types of companies are the most programmable. I have an answer now, because APIs.io scores every one of the 28,834 providers in the catalog and ...
A Year After OpenAPI 3.2, Most API Tooling Cannot Read It
Earlier this week I wrote that one in ten API providers still publish Swagger, and that OpenAPI 3.2 shows up for five companies out of 2,281. I ended that post saying versions a...
What I Learned About JOSE on Today's OpenAPI Call
I sat in on the OpenAPI Technical Developer Community call this morning, and somewhere in the middle of a conversation about where the specification goes next, Henry Andrews sto...
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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