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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What 102 AI Catalogs Say About The Identifier Change
The AI Catalog working group is finalizing version 0.9. The AI Catalog is the JSON document a host publishes at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json, listing its MCP servers, A2A agents...
Twilio API Pricing: What a Text Message Costs, and What Gets Added
Twilio charges for what you send, not for seats or a subscription. That makes the price of one text message easy to find and the monthly bill harder to predict. The message rate...
Siemens Runs Its Own A2A Agent. What I Found At Schneider Electric And Rockwell Automation.
This is the next in my daily series looking at a company that publishes an A2A agent card, and how its competitors compare. The background is in 934 conformant A2A agent cards a...
What An Acquisition Target Claims And What The Score Says
A consultant told me recently that their firm is always looking for organizations doing something interesting that could be folded into what they do. They thought that comparing...
The Amazon API Estate: 199 Surfaces, One Source of Truth, and What It Still Leaves Out
Last week I wrote about the Microsoft API estate. This week I re-profiled every live member of the Amazon API estate on APIs.io. That is 199 provider profiles, run in eleven wav...
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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