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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The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Developer Ergonomics
This is part four of nine, one Kin Score facet every business day. Yesterday I covered Contract Governance, which is about whether your contract holds still long enough to build...
Ten Percent Have Upsert. One Percent Tell You What It Did.
A question went around LinkedIn this week that I have been chewing on since: why is upsert not simply required of every CRM API? The person asking had done the arithmetic in the...
The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Contract Governance
This is part three of nine, one facet of the Kin Score each business day. Yesterday I covered Contract Quality, which asks how good your contract is. Today is Contract Governanc...
Ripio Wrote enabled false And Tools Will Read It As True
This is the last post in a series about OpenAPI vendor extensions, and I saved it for the end because it is the one that turns an argument about tidiness into an argument about ...
The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Contract Quality
This is part two of nine, one facet of the Kin Score each business day. Yesterday I covered Discoverability, which asks whether your API can be found. Today is Contract Quality,...
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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