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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What Matters Most In Forking Spectral
In preparation for this week’s office hours I needed to summarize what matters most when it comes to forking Spectral. It helps me to go back through all of the conversations, i...
The Four Plans I Landed On For APIs.io
I have been going back and forth for months on how to charge for APIs.io. Not the number — the shape. What is the thing someone is actually buying when they pay for access to a ...
Leaving Naftiko Behind to Focus on API Evangelist and APIs.io
You might have noticed the shift in my focus over the summer, but I want to be explicit about my departure from Naftiko for anyone who was away doing summer things, or who misse...
Agents Should Write Code to Integrate, Not Infer It at Runtime
Here is the strongest opinion I hold about agents and APIs right now, and I know it cuts against the mood of the moment: for most real integrations, you do not want the agent in...
A Gateway Nobody Owns Is Just a Load Balancer With a Deploy Pipeline
There is a post making the rounds right now from a team that pulled their API gateway out of their architecture on a Thursday afternoon, half expecting to roll it back within 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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