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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Find And Verify Business Email Addresses And Build Lead Lists With Hunter
If you sell to other businesses, you know the job: you have a list of companies you would like to work with, and you need to reach the right person at each one. So you end up gu...
Scale, Stop And Start Your Kubernetes Clusters Automatically With Azure Kubernetes Service
If your business runs its applications on Azure, there is a good chance a monthly bill has made you ask an uncomfortable question: why are we paying for all those servers overni...
Create Jira Issues, Publish Confluence Pages And Manage Team Access With Atlassian
If your team runs on Jira and Confluence, a good part of your week is probably spent copying. A customer complaint becomes a ticket by hand, a status report gets retyped into a ...
Manage User Logins, Roles And Feature Flags For Your App With Kinde
If you sell software, a surprising amount of your time goes to things your customers never pay you for: who can log in, who is an admin, which plan unlocks which feature, and ho...
Run, Cancel And Re-Run Your Software Builds Automatically With GitHub Actions
If your business ships software, you probably know the morning routine. Someone asks whether last night’s build passed, someone else goes hunting for why it failed, and a releas...
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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This site is the active daily working toolbox for Kin Lane. Feel free to explore the toolbox, you won't break anything. API Evangelist works out in the open to encourage the reuse of our work, while also demonstrating the potential of evangelizing your API work as it occurs.
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