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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Browse AllReddit Closed Its API. Here Is Where Agents Can Still Post And Read
I tried to get a Reddit API key this week. I wanted something small: read-only search across a handful of developer subreddits, to find “is there an API for X?” questions I coul...
Automate Ecommerce Email Campaigns And Segment Shoppers With Omnisend
If you run an online store, you already know the email that earns money: the welcome note to a new subscriber, the campaign to people who bought last spring, the reminder to som...
Run Code Without Managing Servers And Release It Safely With AWS Lambda
Plenty of businesses need a little bit of code running somewhere: resize the photos customers upload, process an order when it lands in a queue, answer a form on the website. Re...
Automate Branch Cleanup And Push Notifications With GitLab
If you manage a software team, you have seen the repository that nobody tidies: hundreds of old branches, release branches someone forgot to protect, and a chat channel that nev...
Run Traffic Reports And Build Audience Segments With Adobe Analytics
Every Monday somebody on a marketing team opens the analytics tool, picks a date range, applies the same filters as last week, and exports the same report into a spreadsheet. Th...
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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