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 Tasks, Track Goals And Get Notified Of Changes With ClickUp
If your team plans its work in ClickUp, a lot of that work starts somewhere else: a customer email, a form submission, a failed order. Retyping each one into a task is slow, and...
Send Marketing Emails, Manage Campaigns And Update Customer Profiles With Iterable
If you market to customers by email, text or app notifications, the messages are the easy part. The work is keeping customer profiles current, getting the right template out in ...
Find And Fix Security Vulnerabilities Across Your Code And Cloud With Snyk
If your company builds software, it is also shipping other people’s code: open-source libraries, container images and cloud configuration. Any of it can carry a known security h...
Deploy Laravel Apps, Schedule Database Backups And Manage Servers With Laravel
If your business runs on a web application built with PHP, keeping it online is a job of its own. Someone has to set up servers, add a staging environment, ship new versions wit...
Shopify vs Etsy: Your Own Store or a Marketplace, and What Each Costs
Shopify vs Etsy isn’t really a choice between two similar products. It’s a choice between running your own store and renting a stall in a busy market. Shopify gives you a store ...
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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