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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 Federation Aspect MCP Needs
The MCP story so far has been a story of proliferation. Every vendor ships a server. Every product team ships a server. My own network is full of them — I have written about eve...
HubSpot Has the OAuth, but Not the Onboarding
I keep coming back to the same wall, and HubSpot is where I hit it again. Every CRM, every gateway, every platform that has spent the last two years telling me it is “all in on ...
Bringing Order To The Agentic Realm With The CLI Agent Spec
The command line interface, or simply CLI has been the workhorse of compute since the 1960s. In the era of the web API, the simplicity of the web API groomed a new generation of...
We Will Never Ask an LLM for a Nutrition Value
I have been asking data providers the same question for two years now — where do you draw the line on what AI is allowed to touch? — and I mostly get mush back. Everybody has a ...
The MCP Roadmap Is An API Roadmap
The MCP roadmap was updated on August 22nd, and I read it the way I read every roadmap that comes out of a fast-moving protocol: looking for the moment where the new thing stops...
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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