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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Add Login, Multi-Factor Authentication And Enterprise Single Sign-On To Your Product With Auth0
Your product needs people to sign in, and suddenly the list gets long. Customers want a second factor on their accounts. A large prospect wants their employees to log in with th...
Run Open Source AI Models, Transcribe Audio And Search Datasets With Hugging Face
Your team wants to summarize customer feedback, transcribe sales calls or sort product photos, and someone has suggested using an open source AI model instead of locking into a ...
Store, Rotate And Recover Passwords And API Keys With Amazon Secrets Manager
Maybe your database passwords live in a configuration file nobody wants to touch, an API key for a payment provider has been the same since the day someone pasted it in, or a te...
The APIs.io Pricing Page Now Shows How APIs Charge
The plans section on APIs.io used to be a list. It was a five megabyte A to Z of every provider we had read a pricing page for, and it was about as useful as that sounds. You co...
Service Level Agreements Come Back Around As SLA4OAI
I just added SLA4OAI to the API Evangelist standards catalog, and writing it up sent me back through my own archive. I have been writing about API service level agreements for t...
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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