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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Open Pull Requests, Track Issues And Find Vulnerable Dependencies With GitHub
Your company’s code lives on GitHub, and so does a growing share of the work around it: the bug reports, the review conversations, the automated tests, and the security warnings...
Provision Quantum Workspaces And Submit Quantum Jobs With Microsoft Azure Quantum
Someone on your research or engineering team wants to try a quantum computer. Not buy one, just run a small program on real quantum hardware and see what comes back. The practic...
Walk The History Of APIs From Talking Drums To Agent Protocols In One Call
When someone asks me how we got here, with agents calling tools over a protocol that didn’t exist two years ago, I don’t have a short answer. I have a long one, and for years it...
The Dutch Government Now Runs On OpenLint
When I forked Spectral back in July, the first downstream user I pointed at was the Dutch government. The Netherlands’ REST API Design Rules are a mandatory standard, and they a...
Score The APIs Nobody Outside Your Company Can See
People assume the Kin Score is only for public APIs, because that is what they see on APIs.io. It is one of the more common misunderstandings, and it came up again recently when...
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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