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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The Human In The Loop Is Now One Email
Four days ago I wrote about our agent finding four APIs, proving who it was, and getting all four to trust it. I ended that post with what was still broken, and the biggest thin...
The Harness That Works Is A Contract
Naresh Jain published Are Harnesses Worth the Cost? on martinfowler.com last week, and it is the most useful thing I have read about coding agents this year. It’s useful because...
The First Poppy Files, and the One a Vendor Wrote
Two weeks ago Sierra and Meta announced the Personal Agent Protocol — “Poppy” — and I added it to the API Evangelist standards catalog. It asks a company to publish /.well-known...
The Brands Are Missing From Their Own Markets
One of the stranger results from building out the Market layer of the Kin Score is how often the biggest names in an industry don’t show up in its structure at all. Consumer go...
We Don't Need No Stink'n Rules!
I’ve had a bee in my bonnet about Bruno Pedro’s story “API Governance Isn’t Just Rule Automation” for a couple of weeks now, but I just haven’t had the time to gather my thought...
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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