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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Create, Autofill And Export On-Brand Designs Automatically With Canva
You have a brand template in Canva and a spreadsheet of names, prices or event dates, and you need a finished graphic for every row: a social post per product, a certificate per...
Add DNS Records, Block Attackers And Balance Traffic With Cloudflare
Your website sits behind Cloudflare, and most days you never think about it. Then a new service needs a DNS record, a bot starts hammering the login page, a lookalike domain sho...
Trigger Customer Journeys, Run A Loyalty Program And Load Records In Bulk With Salesforce
Your customer records live in Salesforce, and so does a lot of the work that happens around them: the welcome email when someone signs up, the points they earn in your loyalty s...
Publish Posts, Moderate Comments And Find Hashtags With Instagram
You run a business account on Instagram, and the posting is the easy part. What takes the time is everything else: scheduling posts from the same calendar your other channels us...
Make Calls, Send Texts And Register Your Brand For SMS With Twilio
You want to text a customer when their order ships, call them back when a form is submitted, or put a small support desk behind one phone number without buying a phone system. N...
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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