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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 Best Way to Get Your API Project Approved Right Now Is to Call It AI
I said this out loud in a recent conversation with Nordic APIs and I keep coming back to it, because it is the most honest description of how enterprise budgets actually move in...
Reducing API Sprawl Through Governance
The first five posts in this series diagnosed the problem: what sprawl is, where it comes from, and why it costs you. This sixth post is about the cure, or at least the half of ...
Most Published Agent Cards Are Not Actually A2A
APIs.io now has a section for A2A Agent Cards, and I want to talk about what building it taught us, because the interesting part is not the section — it is what we found when we...
I Am Forking Spectral
On July 14th someone filed an issue on the Spectral repository titled “SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK — @stoplight/spectral pulls in compromised dependencies.” Ten days later, one other pe...
ZotGPT: What It Looks Like When a University Owns Its AI Infrastructure
I would not have found this one on my own. I have been working with my intern on a research project to better understand how universities are actually adopting AI — not what the...
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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