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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Get Notified When A Smartsheet Changes And Connect It To Your Other Tools
A lot of teams run projects in Smartsheet and then spend part of every day checking it: did someone update that row, did the status change, has the new request come in. Then the...
Manage TikTok Ad Campaigns And TikTok Shop Orders Automatically With The TikTok API
If your business sells on TikTok, you probably know the routine: building ad campaigns in one screen, checking orders in another, updating products by hand, printing shipping la...
Build Custom Maps And Publish Your Own Location Data With Mapbox
Maybe you want a store locator that looks like your brand rather than a generic map. Maybe you have a list of delivery zones, service areas, properties or field assets and want ...
Send Invoices, Pay Bills And Pull Financial Reports Automatically With QuickBooks
Most small businesses running QuickBooks have someone re-keying numbers: orders from the store into invoices, supplier bills from email into payables, totals from the books into...
GitHub vs GitLab: What Each Costs, and What Its APIs Let You Build
If you’re choosing between GitHub and GitLab, you’re picking where your code lives, where your builds run and how much you pay per developer for both. You’re also picking an API...
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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