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I engage with a lot of enterprise organizations in a variety of capacities. Some are more formal consulting and workshop engagements. While others are just emails, direct messages, and random conv...
I’m heading to Vegas in the morning to spend two days in conversations with folks about APIs. I am not there for AWS re:Invent, or the Gartner thingy, but I guess in a way I am, because there are ...
I’m heading to Vegas in the morning to spend two days in conversations with folks about APIs. I am not there for AWS re:Invent, or the Gartner thingy, but I guess in a way I am, because there are ...
I’ve been researching the API space full time for the last eight years, and over that time I have developed a pretty robust view of what the API landscape looks like. You can find almost 100 stops...
I’ve always been a big supporter of creating machine readable artifacts that help define the API lifecycle. While individual artifacts can originate and govern specific stops along the API lifecyc...
I’ve always been a big supporter of creating machine readable artifacts that help define the API lifecycle. While individual artifacts can originate and govern specific stops along the API lifecyc...
I find myself refactoring API Evangelist again this holiday season. Over the last eight years of doing API Evangelist I’ve had to regularly adjust what I do to keep it alive and moving forward. As...
I find myself refactoring API Evangelist again this holiday season. Over the last eight years of doing API Evangelist I’ve had to regularly adjust what I do to keep it alive and moving forward. As...
All of my API workshops are machine readable, driven from a central YAML file that provides all the content and relevant links I need to deliver what I need during a single, or multi-day API strat...
All of my API workshops are machine readable, driven from a central YAML file that provides all the content and relevant links I need to deliver what I need during a single, or multi-day API strat...
Flickr was one of the first APIs that I profiled back in 2010 when I started API Evangelist. Using their API as a cornerstone of my research, resulting in their API making it into my history of API...
Flickr was one of the first APIs that I profiled back in 2010 when I started API Evangelist. Using their API as a cornerstone of my research, resulting in their API making it into my history of AP...
Travel is an important part of what I do. It is essential to striking up new relationships, and reenforcing old ones. It is important for me to get out of my bubble, expose myself to different per...
I spend a lot of time helping enterprise organizations discover their APIs. All of the organizations I talk to have trouble knowing where all of their APIs are–even the most organized of them. Dev...
I am in Europe for most of October, and while I am in Paris we thought it would be a good idea to pull together a last minute API Meetup. Romain Simiand (@RomainSimiand), the API Evangelist at Peo...
I was in Ispra, Italy last week for a two day workshop on APIs with the European Commission. The European Commission’s DG CONNECT together with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) launched a study wit...
I am in Europe for most of October, and while I am in Paris we thought it would be a good idea to pull together a last minute API Meetup. Romain Simiand (@RomainSimiand), the API Evangelist at Peo...
I was in Ispra, Italy last week for a two day workshop on APIs with the European Commission. The European Commission’s DG CONNECT together with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) launched a study wit...
I’ve been doing more workshops on the API lifecycle within enterprise groups lately. Allowing me to refine my materials on the ground within enterprise groups, further flesh out the building block...
I’ve been doing more workshops on the API lifecycle within enterprise groups lately. Allowing me to refine my materials on the ground within enterprise groups, further flesh out the building block...
Everyone wants their OpenAPIs to be complete, but what that really means will depend on who you are, what your knowledge of OpenAPI is, as well as being driven by your motivation for having an Open...
I have numerous tools that help me create OpenAPIs from the APIs I stumble across each day. Ideally I’m crawling, scraping, harvesting, and auto-generating OpenAPIs, but inevitably the process gets...
I have numerous tools that help me create OpenAPIs from the APIs I stumble across each day. Ideally I’m crawling, scraping, harvesting, and auto-generating OpenAPIs, but inevitably the process gets...
I have been partnering with Streamdata.io to evolve how I work with enterprise groups on their API lifecycle strategy. After working closely with the Streadata.io sales team, it became clear that ...
This is a write-up for research I conducted with my partner Skylight Digital. The team conducted a series of interviews with leading public and private sector API platforms regarding how they appr...
I work with a lot of folks who work in large enterprise organizations, institutions, and government agencies who are moving the API conversation forward within their groups. I’m all too familiar w...
I work with a lot of folks who work in large enterprise organizations, institutions, and government agencies who are moving the API conversation forward within their groups. I’m all too familiar w...
I am at the Kong Summit in San Francisco all day tomorrow. I’m going to be speaking about research into the event-driven architectural layers I’ve been mapping out across the API space. Looking fo...
We have the API evangelist from one of the most significant APIs out there today at #APIStrat in Nashville next week. Mark Scrimshire (@ekivemark), Blue Button Innovator and Developer Evangelist f...
I am at the Kong Summit in San Francisco all day tomorrow. I’m going to be speaking about research into the event-driven architectural layers I’ve been mapping out across the API space. Looking fo...
We have the API evangelist from one of the most significant APIs out there today at #APIStrat in Nashville next week. Mark Scrimshire (@ekivemark), Blue Button Innovator and Developer Evangelist f...
I am developing an authentication and access layer for the API Gallery that I am building for Streamdata.io, while also federating it for usage as part of my API Stack research. In addition to bui...
I feel like I’m regularly having to advocate for my existence, and the existence of developers who are like me, within the sales and marketing funnel for many APIs. I sign up for a lot of APIs, an...
Eric Horesnyi (@EricHoresnyi), the CEO of Streamata.io and I were on a call with a group of people who are moving forward the API conversation across Europe, with the assistance of the EU. The pro...
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in the last eight years, is that when people are insistent about things being open, in both accessibility, and cost, it is often more about things re...
I am developing an authentication and access layer for the API Gallery that I am building for Streamdata.io, while also federating it for usage as part of my API Stack research. In addition to bui...
I feel like I’m regularly having to advocate for my existence, and the existence of developers who are like me, within the sales and marketing funnel for many APIs. I sign up for a lot of APIs, an...
Eric Horesnyi (@EricHoresnyi), the CEO of Streamata.io and I were on a call with a group of people who are moving forward the API conversation across Europe, with the assistance of the EU. The pro...
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in the last eight years, is that when people are insistent about things being open, in both accessibility, and cost, it is often more about things re...
I was taking a look at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) API documentation for the VA Facilities API, and intending on providing some feedback on the API implementation. The API itself is pr...
I reach out to API providers on a regular basis, asking them if they have an OpenAPI or Postman Collection available behind the scenes. I am adding these machine readable API definitions to my ind...
I was taking a look at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) API documentation for the VA Facilities API, and intending on providing some feedback on the API implementation. The API itself is pr...
I’m a big fan of helpful authentication features, where API providers make it easier to manage our increasingly hellish environment, application, token, and other management duties of the average ...
This is a topic I’ve wanted to set in motion for some time now. I had a new university professor city my work again as part of one of their courses recently, something that floated this concept to...
I’m a big fan of helpful authentication features, where API providers make it easier to manage our increasingly hellish environment, application, token, and other management duties of the average ...
This post is part of my ongoing review of the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) developer portal and API presence, moving on to where I take a closer look at their path to production process, and...
I’ve had several folks asking me to articulate my vision of an API centric “sales” funnel, which technically is out of my wheelhouse in the sales and marketing area, but since I do have lots opinio...
This post is part of my ongoing review of the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) developer portal and API presence, moving on to where I take a closer look at their path to production process, and...
I’ve been falling short of my normal storytelling quotas recently. I like to have at least 3 posts on API Evangelist, and two posts on Streamdata.io each day. I have been letting it slip because i...
I run a lot of different applications that depend on GitHub, and use GitHub authentication as the identity and access management layer for these apps. One of the things I like the most about GitHu...
I’ve been falling short of my normal storytelling quotas recently. I like to have at least 3 posts on API Evangelist, and two posts on Streamdata.io each day. I have been letting it slip because i...
I run a lot of different applications that depend on GitHub, and use GitHub authentication as the identity and access management layer for these apps. One of the things I like the most about GitHu...
I’ve been working on developing and evolving the Streamdata.io partner program, trying to move forward conversations with other service providers in the space that have existed long before I start...
I was reviewing the new developer portal for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and one of things I took notice of, was their use of the developer.va.gov subdomain. In my experience, the API...
I’m working to break down the moving parts of API efforts over at the VA, and work to provide as much relevant feedback as I possibly can. One of the components I’m wanting to think about more is ...
This is our regular reminder that APIs are not good, nor bad, nor neutral. They are simply a tool in our technological toolbox, and something that is often used for very dark reasons, and occasion...
I’ve been working on developing and evolving the Streamdata.io partner program, trying to move forward conversations with other service providers in the space that have existed long before I start...
This is our regular reminder that APIs are not good, nor bad, nor neutral. They are simply a tool in our technological toolbox, and something that is often used for very dark reasons, and occasion...
I have been working on API and open data efforts at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for five years now. I’m passionate about pushing forward the API conversation at the federal agency beca...
I am always fascinated when I get push back from people about API management, the authentication, service composition, logging, analysis, and billing layer on the world of APIs. I seem to be find ...
I’ve been working a couple organizations who are struggling with providing information within their API developer portal intended for API publishers, pushing their API portal beyond just being for...
I am always fascinated when I get push back from people about API management, the authentication, service composition, logging, analysis, and billing layer on the world of APIs. I seem to be find ...
I’ve been working a couple organizations who are struggling with providing information within their API developer portal intended for API publishers, pushing their API portal beyond just being for...
I am trying to develop a base base API pricing formula for determining what my hard costs are for each API I’m publishing using Amazon RDS, EC2, and AWS API Gateway. I also have some APIs I am dep...
I wanted to take a moment and review the Department Of Veterans Affairs (VA) new developer portal. Spending some time considering at how far they’ve come, what they published so far, and brainstor...
I’ve learned a lot in eight years of operating API Evangelist. One of the most important things I’ve learned to do is separate my personal belief and interest in technology from the realities of t...
Nobody likes to be told that their APIs are unreliable, and unavailable on a regular basis. However, it is one of those pills that ALL APIs have to swallow, and EVERY API provider should be paying ...
I am trying to develop a base base API pricing formula for determining what my hard costs are for each API I’m publishing using Amazon RDS, EC2, and AWS API Gateway. I also have some APIs I am dep...
I wanted to take a moment and review the Department Of Veterans Affairs (VA) new developer portal. Spending some time considering at how far they’ve come, what they published so far, and brainstor...
Nobody likes to be told that their APIs are unreliable, and unavailable on a regular basis. However, it is one of those pills that ALL APIs have to swallow, and EVERY API provider should be paying ...
I responded about how teams should be documenting their APIs when they have both legacy and new APIs the other day. I wanted to keep the conversation thread going with an example of one possible A...
After providing some guidance the other day on how teams should be documenting their APIs, one of the follow up comments was: “Now we just have to figure out how to get the developers to follow th...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
I responded about how teams should be documenting their APIs when they have both legacy and new APIs the other day. I wanted to keep the conversation thread going with an example of one possible A...
After providing some guidance the other day on how teams should be documenting their APIs, one of the follow up comments was: “Now we just have to figure out how to get the developers to follow th...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
While Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram will always have a place in my history of APIs, I feel like we are entering a post Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram API world. All three platforms are going ...
I’m continuing my work to help the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) move forward their API strategy. One area I’m happy to help the federal agency with, is just being available to answer quest...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
I’m continuing my work to help the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) move forward their API strategy. One area I’m happy to help the federal agency with, is just being available to answer quest...
I’m a big fan of Postman, and the power of their development environment, as well as their Postman Collection format. I think their approach to not just integrating with APIs, but also enabling th...
I do not like email. I do not have a good relationship with my inbox. However, it is one of those ubiquitous tools I have to use, and understand the value it can bring to my world. The goal is to ...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
I’m a big fan of Postman, and the power of their development environment, as well as their Postman Collection format. I think their approach to not just integrating with APIs, but also enabling th...
I do not like email. I do not have a good relationship with my inbox. However, it is one of those ubiquitous tools I have to use, and understand the value it can bring to my world. The goal is to ...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
I’m evolving the search for the Streamdata.io API Gallery I’ve been working on lately. I’m looking to move the basic keywords search that searches the API name and description, as well as the API ...
Last year I started saying API define first, instead of API design first. In response to many of the conversations out there about designing, then mocking, and eventually deploying your APIs into ...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
APIs come in many shapes and sizes. Even when APIs may share a common resource, the likelihood that they are similar in functional, will be slim. Even after eight years of studying APIs, I still s...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
I was working on a serverless app for Streamdata.io that takes posts to Hacker News and streams them into an Amazon S3 data lake, and I came across the Algolia powered Hacker News search API. Afte...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
I’m watching several fronts along the API landscape evolve right now, with large API providers shifting, shutting down, and changing how they do business with their APIs–now that they don’t need t...
I am setting up different APIs using the AWS API Gateway and then publishing them to the AWS Marketplace, as part of my work with Streamdata.io. I’m getting a feel for what the process is all abou...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
The API providers I talk to regularly are rarely proactive when it comes to addressing API deprecation. Most API providers aren’t thinking about shutting down any service they deliver until they’v...
I am setting up different APIs using the AWS API Gateway and then publishing them to the AWS Marketplace, as part of my work with Streamdata.io. I’m getting a feel for what the process is all abou...
We are getting closer to the 9th edition of APIStrat happening in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. The schedule for the conference is up, along with the first lineup of keynote spea...
I look at a lot of APIs. I can tell a lot about a company, and the people behind an API from looking at their developer portal, documentation, and other building blocks of their presence. One of t...
I spend time reviewing each wave of data API marketplaces as they emerge on the landscape every couple of years. There are a number of reasons why these data marketplaces exist, ranging from suppo...
I look at a lot of APIs. I can tell a lot about a company, and the people behind an API from looking at their developer portal, documentation, and other building blocks of their presence. One of t...
I spend time reviewing each wave of data API marketplaces as they emerge on the landscape every couple of years. There are a number of reasons why these data marketplaces exist, ranging from suppo...
I’m deploying three new APIs right now, using a new experimental serverless approach I’m evolving. One is a location API, another providing API access to companies, and the third involves working ...
We are kicking it into overdrive now that the schedule is up for APIStrat in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. From now until the event at the end of September you are going to hear ...
I’m heading to Washington D.C. this Monday to speak on the API life cycle as part of the Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference. We’ll be coming together in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building,...
We are kicking it into overdrive now that the schedule is up for APIStrat in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. From now until the event at the end of September you are going to hear ...
I’m heading to Washington D.C. this Monday to speak on the API life cycle as part of the Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference. We’ll be coming together in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building,...
I am publishing a new API for locations. I am tired of needing some of the same location based resources across projects, and not having a simple, standardized API I can depend on. So I got to wor...
I’ve been having regular meetings with the SAPI API team lately, talking through their presence in the API space, and throwing out ideas for what the future might hold. This isn’t a paid engagemen...
As we prepare for APIStrat in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th, I asked my partner in crime Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) to write a post on the significance of Virginia Eubanks, t...
We need your help moving the AsyncAPI specification forward. Ok, first, what is the AsyncAPI specification? “The AsyncAPI Specification is a project used to describe and document Asynchronous APIs...
We are gearing up for the next edition of APIStrat in Nashville, TN this September 24th through 26th. With the conference less than two months away, and the schedule up, I’m building momentum with...
I’m currently learning more about SLA4OAI, an open source standard for describing SLA in APIs, which is based on the standards proposed by the OAI, adding an optional profile for defining SLA (Ser...
I’m currently learning more about SLA4OAI, an open source standard for describing SLA in APIs, which is based on the standards proposed by the OAI, adding an optional profile for defining SLA (Ser...
I am deploying a patent review API for a client, using data from the Patent Examination Data System (PEDS). You can download complete JSON or XML data from the United States Patent Office (USPTO), ...
While writing about the discussions I’ve been having with folks around using monorepos to manage microservices, I came across this post about whether or not people should be using a single monolit...
I told the folks over at SAP that I would take a look at their API Business Hub. It isn’t paid work, just helping provide feedback on another addition to the API discovery front, something I’m pre...
I read a lot of API documentation, and help review API portals for clients, and one of the most common rookie mistakes I see made, is people pointing out the obvious, and writing a bunch of fluffy...
I am deploying a patent review API for a client, using data from the Patent Examination Data System (PEDS). You can download complete JSON or XML data from the United States Patent Office (USPTO), ...
About 60% of my work these days is building upon the last five years of my API Stack research, with a focus on building out the Streamdata.io API Gallery. We are fine tuning our approach for disco...
This is a report for the Department of Veterans Affairs microconsulting project, “Governance Models in Public and Private Sector”. Providing an overview of API governance to help the VA, “understa...
About 60% of my work these days is building upon the last five years of my API Stack research, with a focus on building out the Streamdata.io API Gallery. We are fine tuning our approach for disco...
One of the layers of the API universe where I come across an increased number Hypermedia APIs is in the movie, television, and entertainment space. Where having a more flowing API experience makes...
While profiling any company, a couple of the Google searches I will execute right away are for “[Company Name] Swagger” and “[Company Name] OpenAPI”, hoping that a provide is progressive enough to...
It is interesting for me to still regularly come across so many API providers who have a public API portals, but insist on keeping most of their documentation behind a login. Stating that they are...
I’m regularly fascinated with API development teams I work with expressing their concern with working with many Github repositories. With all of the complexity I watch teams embrace when it comes ...
One of the layers of the API universe where I come across an increased number Hypermedia APIs is in the movie, television, and entertainment space. Where having a more flowing API experience makes...
While profiling any company, a couple of the Google searches I will execute right away are for “[Company Name] Swagger” and “[Company Name] OpenAPI”, hoping that a provide is progressive enough to...
It is interesting for me to still regularly come across so many API providers who have a public API portals, but insist on keeping most of their documentation behind a login. Stating that they are...
I’m regularly fascinated with API development teams I work with expressing their concern with working with many Github repositories. With all of the complexity I watch teams embrace when it comes ...
I am working on delivering a handful of new APIs, which I will be turning into products. I will be prototyping, developing, and operating them in production environments for myself, and for a hand...
You don’t usually find me writing about API acquisitions unless I have a relationship with the company, or there are other interesting aspects of the acquisition that makes it noteworthy. This acq...
There are a lot of people making money off of the acquisition, organization, and providing access to data in our digital world. While I quietly tune into what the data monetization trends are, I a...
It is funny work with companies, organizations, institutions, and government agencies of all shapes and sizes, and learn all the weird practices they have, and the strange belief systems they’ve e...
I import and work with a number of OpenAPI definitions that I come across in the wild. When I come across a version 1.2, 2.0, 3.0 OpenAPI, I import them into my API monitoring system for publishin...
I gave a talk early in in June at POST/CON 2018 in San Francisco. The conference was a great mix of discussions reflecting the Postman community. You can find all the talks on Google, including min...
I am shifting my long running API operations from a PHP / EC2 based implementation to a more efficient Node.js / Lambda based solution, and I promised James Higginbotham (@launchany) that I’d shar...
I’m doing a lot of thinking regarding how JSON PATCH can be applied because of my work with Streamdata.io. When you proxy an existing JSON API with Streamdata.io, after the initial response, every...
I’m doing a lot of thinking regarding how JSON PATCH can be applied because of my work with Streamdata.io. When you proxy an existing JSON API with Streamdata.io, after the initial response, every...
I gave a talk early in in June at POST/CON 2018 in San Francisco. The conference was a great mix of discussions reflecting the Postman community. You can find all the talks on Google, including min...
It is tough to help developers think outside of the world they operate within. Most software is still developed and managed within silos, knowing it’s inner workings will never be seen by anyone o...
When you operate your application within the API ecosystem of a large platform, depending on the platform, you might have to worry about the platform operator copying, and emulating what you do. T...
I was profiling the volume of API from the Internet of Things platform Predix this last week. Luckily they have OpenAPI definitions for each of the APIs, something that makes my life a lot easier....
About half of the teams I work with on microservices strategy are beginning to freak out about the number repositories they have, and someone is regularly bringing up the subject of having a mono ...
It is tough to help developers think outside of the world they operate within. Most software is still developed and managed within silos, knowing it’s inner workings will never be seen by anyone o...
I was profiling the volume of API from the Internet of Things platform Predix this last week. Luckily they have OpenAPI definitions for each of the APIs, something that makes my life a lot easier....
About half of the teams I work with on microservices strategy are beginning to freak out about the number repositories they have, and someone is regularly bringing up the subject of having a mono ...
We are building up to the 9th edition of API Strategy & Practice (APIStrat) happening in Nashville, Tennessee this September 24th through 26th. As part of the build up we are looking for spons...
GraphQL folks keep on with the GraphQL vs REST narratives, rather than a REST and / or GraphQL narrative lately with a recent burger meme/narrative. Continuing to demonstrate their narrow view of t...
It has been a fascinating and eye opening experience sitting at the intersection of tech startups and the web, mobile, and device applications they’ve built over the last decade. In 2010 I was cap...
It has been a fascinating and eye opening experience sitting at the intersection of tech startups and the web, mobile, and device applications they’ve built over the last decade. In 2010 I was cap...
We are building up to the 9th edition of API Strategy & Practice (APIStrat) happening in Nashville, Tennessee this September 24th through 26th. As part of the build up we are looking for spons...
GraphQL folks keep on with the GraphQL vs REST narratives, rather than a REST and / or GraphQL narrative lately with a recent burger meme/narrative. Continuing to demonstrate their narrow view of t...
API versioning is almost always one of the top attended discussions at conferences I help organize, and one of the first questions I get in the QA sessions at workshops I conduct. People want to u...
People love to hate in the API space. Ok, I guess its not exclusive to the API space, but it is a significant aspect of the community. I receive a regular amount of people hating on my work, for n...
When it comes to providing data, content, and even ML and AI models via APIs, having a public platform will become a competitive advantage. I know that many companies see it as giving away somethi...
When it comes to providing data, content, and even ML and AI models via APIs, having a public platform will become a competitive advantage. I know that many companies see it as giving away somethi...
My friend James Higginbotham (@launchany) was sharing his frustration with being able to stay in tune with changes to a variety of APIs. Like me, James works to stay in tune with a variety of sign...
One thing I see a lot from API service providers who are selling their services to the API sector, is that once they find success servicing one stop along the API lifecycle, they often want to ser...
I’m fascinated by the dominating power of programming languages. There are many ideological forces at play in the technology sector, but the dogma that exists within each programming language comm...
One thing I see a lot from API service providers who are selling their services to the API sector, is that once they find success servicing one stop along the API lifecycle, they often want to ser...
I spend a lot of time talking about the SalesForce API, using it as a reference for where the API evolution began 18 years ago, but it has been a long time since I’ve actually worked with the Sale...
I spend a lot of time talking about the SalesForce API, using it as a reference for where the API evolution began 18 years ago, but it has been a long time since I’ve actually worked with the Sale...
This report summarizes Skylight’s evaluation of the VA’s public datasets, which exist within the va.gov web domain, as well as an analysis of what types of data representatives of the Veteran com...
In my world, OpenAPI is always a primary actor, and the tooling and services that put it to work are always secondary. However, I’d say that 80% of the people I talk with are the opposite, putting...
This report summarizes Skylight’s evaluation of the VA’s public datasets, which exist within the va.gov web domain, as well as an analysis of what types of data representatives of the Veteran com...
After eight years of educating people about sensible API security and management, I’m always amazed at how many people I come across who still think public web APIs are about giving away access to...
It is APIStrat time again! This time it is in Nashville, Tennessee! We are in the early stages of the event, but we are getting close to the deadline of the call for papers. We’ve assembled anothe...
I’m kicking off a busy week of travel and talks this week in DC with a discussion about delivering microservices at federal agencies at DevNation Federal on Tuesday, June 5th, 2018. I was invited ...
After I speak at DevNation Federal in Washington DC this Tuesday, I am going to give a similar talk at the DC API API User Group that evening. I love going to the Meetups in DC, partly because my ...
I’ve been evaluating API management providers, and this important stop along the API lifecycle in which they serve for eight years now. It is a space that I’m very familiar with, and have enjoyed ...
It is APIStrat time again! This time it is in Nashville, Tennessee! We are in the early stages of the event, but we are getting close to the deadline of the call for papers. We’ve assembled anothe...
I’m kicking off a busy week of travel and talks this week in DC with a discussion about delivering microservices at federal agencies at DevNation Federal on Tuesday, June 5th, 2018. I was invited ...
After I speak at DevNation Federal in Washington DC this Tuesday, I am going to give a similar talk at the DC API API User Group that evening. I love going to the Meetups in DC, partly because my ...
I conducted an API workshop at Genscape in Boston yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation with the technical folks there, and found their pragmatic, yet educated views on APIs refreshing....
A question I get regularly in my API workshops is, “how should we be organizing all of our microservices?” To which I always recommend they tune into what the API Academy team is up to, and then I...
I conducted an API workshop at Genscape in Boston yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation with the technical folks there, and found their pragmatic, yet educated views on APIs refreshing....
I know, time flies and we are all very busy, but have you submitted your talk for APIStrat Nashville? The call for papers closes next Friday, June 8, 2018 at 11:59 PM PST! This is the second editi...
I know, time flies and we are all very busy, but have you submitted your talk for APIStrat Nashville? The call for papers closes next Friday, June 8, 2018 at 11:59 PM PST! This is the second editi...
I’m kicking off a micro-procurement project with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this week. I’m going to to be conducting one of my API low hanging fruit campaigns for them, where I help t...
Most of this API stuff isn’t technical. For APIs to work at scale within a single company, a wider industry, or across government agencies, you need people who are committed to evangelism, coachin...
I’m kicking off a micro-procurement project with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this week. I’m going to to be conducting one of my API low hanging fruit campaigns for them, where I help t...
I was on a call for a federal government API platform project with my partner in crime Chris Cairns (@cscairns) of Skylight.Digital. We were back channeling in our Slack channel during the call, w...
I have been intrigued by the people who reached out after I published a story about my partner program. One of the companies that reached out was the API integration agency Bridge Software, who re...
I have been intrigued by the people who reached out after I published a story about my partner program. One of the companies that reached out was the API integration agency Bridge Software, who re...
I’m working to define APIs at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on several fronts right now. I’ve provided not just one, but two detailed reponses to their Lighthouse API platform RFIs. Addi...
The General Services Administration (GSA) has an open call for help to test the new FedBizOpps API. Setting a pretty compelling precedent for releasing APIs in the federal government, slowly bring...
I’ve been on five separate government reflated projects lately where finding modular OpenAPI-driven open source tooling has been a top priority. All of these projects are microservice-focused and ...
I’ve had a huge demand for putting on API seminars for a variety of enterprise groups lately. Helping bring my API 101, history, lifecycle, and governance knowledge to the table. I’ve conducted se...
I’ve been on five separate government reflated projects lately where finding modular OpenAPI-driven open source tooling has been a top priority. All of these projects are microservice-focused and ...
I’m working to define APIs at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on several fronts right now. I’ve provided not just one, but two detailed reponses to their Lighthouse API platform RFIs. Addi...
I’m a big fan of API sandboxes, labs, and other virtualization environments. API sandboxes should be default in heavily regulated industries like banking. I also support the virtualization of sche...
I’ve been evaluating microservices at scale, using their OpenAPI definitions to provide API design guidance to each team using Github. I just finished a round of work where I took 20 microservices...
I’ve written about how the startup community has driven the value exchange that occurs at the API management layer down a two lane road with API monetizatin and plans. To generate the value that i...
I checked out the Github repositories for twenty microservices of one of my clients recently, looking understand what is being accomplished across all these services as they work independently to ...
I’m a big fan of API sandboxes, labs, and other virtualization environments. API sandboxes should be default in heavily regulated industries like banking. I also support the virtualization of sche...
I’ve written about how the startup community has driven the value exchange that occurs at the API management layer down a two lane road with API monetizatin and plans. To generate the value that i...
The topic of API discovery has been picking up momentum in 2018. It is something I’ve worked on for years, but with the number of microservices emerging out there, it is something I’m seeing becom...
The more I study where the API management, gateway, and proxy layer is headed, the less I’m seeing a front-end or a backend, I’m seeing just a node. A node that can connect to existing databases, ...
I was in a conference session about an API design tool today, and someone asked if you could get at the OpenAPI definition behind the solution. They said yes, but quickly also said that the defini...
I’ve had a few API groups contact me lately regarding the challenges they are facing when it comes to supporting organizational, or industry-wide API definitions and schema. They were eager to sup...
I’m always fascinated by the API design debate, and how many entrenched positions there are when it comes to the right way of doing it. Personally, I don’t see any right way of doing it, I just se...
I was in a conference session about an API design tool today, and someone asked if you could get at the OpenAPI definition behind the solution. They said yes, but quickly also said that the defini...
I’ve had a few API groups contact me lately regarding the challenges they are facing when it comes to supporting organizational, or industry-wide API definitions and schema. They were eager to sup...
I’m always fascinated by the API design debate, and how many entrenched positions there are when it comes to the right way of doing it. Personally, I don’t see any right way of doing it, I just se...
I’m turning different APIs into topical streams using Streamdata.io. I have been profiling hundreds of different APIs as part of my work to build out the Streamdata.io API Gallery, and as I’m crea...
I received an email from my CRON job API (EasyCRON) provider this morning about discontinuing the usage of social logins to their service with Gmail, Facebook, etc. Something that I think is a sig...
One of the arguments I hear for why API providers should be employing GraphQL is that they should just get out of developers way, and let them build their own queries so that they can just get exa...
I have been studying API management for eight years now. I’ve spent a lot of time understanding the approach of leading API providers, and the services and tools put out there by API service provi...
I’m turning different APIs into topical streams using Streamdata.io. I have been profiling hundreds of different APIs as part of my work to build out the Streamdata.io API Gallery, and as I’m crea...
I have been studying API management for eight years now. I’ve spent a lot of time understanding the approach of leading API providers, and the services and tools put out there by API service provi...
I have been working on several fronts to help with API efforts at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this year, and one of them is helping quantify the deployment of a lab API environment for...
I’ve been reading about all the work Facebook and Twitter have been doing over the last couple of weeks to begin asserting more control over their API applications. I’m not talking about the depre...
I have several projects right now that are needed a baseline for what is expected of microservices developers when it comes to the README for their Github repository. Each microservice should be a...
I’ve been reading about all the work Facebook and Twitter have been doing over the last couple of weeks to begin asserting more control over their API applications. I’m not talking about the depre...
p></p>When I talk to government agencies, non-profit organizations, or organizations doing internal APIs I regularly receive pushback about the information I share regarding API management...
I’m always amazed what large organizations can achieve. They definitely have more resources, more momentum, and do way more than any single individual can achieve. However, as an individual actor ...
I haven’t published any stories this week on API Evangelist. I’ve been on the road in Lyon and Paris, France. Giving talks, and conducting workshops about my API lifecycle and governance work. Oft...
p></p>When I talk to government agencies, non-profit organizations, or organizations doing internal APIs I regularly receive pushback about the information I share regarding API management...
I haven’t published any stories this week on API Evangelist. I’ve been on the road in Lyon and Paris, France. Giving talks, and conducting workshops about my API lifecycle and governance work. Oft...
I’m participating in a meeting today where one of the agenda items will be discussing the different ways in which the team can deal with increasingly large API responses. I don’t feel there is a p...
I wrote about Werner Vogel of Amazon’s post considering the impact of cloud regions a couple weeks back. I feel that his post captured an aspect of doing business in the cloud that isn’t discussed...
Google has been really moving forward with their development, and storytelling around gRPC. Their high speed to approach to doing APIs that uses HTTP/2 as a transport, and protocol buffers (ProtoB...
APIs are hard to talk about across large groups of people, while ensuring everyone is on the page. APIs don’t have much a visual side to them, providing a tangible reference for everyone to use by...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is listening to my advice around how to execute their API strategy and adopting a micro-approach to not just delivering services, but also to the business o...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is listening to my advice around how to execute their API strategy and adopting a micro-approach to not just delivering services, but also to the business o...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is listening to my advice around how to execute their API strategy and adopting a micro-approach to not just delivering services, but also to the business o...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is listening to my advice around how to execute their API strategy and adopting a micro-approach to not just delivering services, but also to the business o...
My world runs on Gitub. 100% of my public website projects run on Github Pages, and about 75% of my public web applications run on Gitub Pages. The remaining 25% of it all is my API infrastructure...
It has been almost a year and half since I first wrote my post questioning that GraphQL folks didn’t want to do the hard work of API design, which I also clarified that I was keeping my mind open ...
It has been almost a year and half since I first wrote my post questioning that GraphQL folks didn’t want to do the hard work of API design, which I also clarified that I was keeping my mind open ...
This is a story, in a series I’m doing as part of the version 3.0 release of the Stoplight.io platform. Stoplight.io is one the few API service providers I’m excited about what when it comes to wh...
You’ve heard of OpenAPI, right? It is the API specification for defining the surface area of your web API, and the schema you employ–making your public API more discoverable, and consumable in a v...
I am hitting the road this week heading to London to speak at the API Conference. I will be giving a keynote on Thursday afternoon, and conducting an all day workshop on Friday. Both of my talks a...
I’ve been retooling the partner program for API Evangelist. There are many reasons for this, and you can read the full backstory I have written a narrative for these changes to the way in which I ...
I struggle with partner relationships. I’ve had a lot of partners operating API Evangelist over the years. Some good. Some not so good. And some amazing! You know who you are. It’s tough to fund w...
I struggle with partner relationships. I’ve had a lot of partners operating API Evangelist over the years. Some good. Some not so good. And some amazing! You know who you are. It’s tough to fund w...
I’m always looking out for examples of API providers who have invested energy into formalizing process around the business and politics of API operations. I’m hoping to aggregate a variety of appr...
This is a story, in a series of stories that I’m doing as part of the version 3.0 release of the Stoplight.io platform. Stoplight.io is one the few API service providers I’m excited about what whe...
I’ve been telling stories about what the Stoplight.io team has been building for a couple of years now. They are one of the few API service provider startups left that are doing things that intere...
I’ve talked about how generating an OpenAPI (fka Swagger) definition from code is still the dominate way that microservice owners are producing this artifact. This is a by-product of developers se...
When you spend time looking at a lot of microservices, across many different organizations, you really begin to get a feel for the ones who have owners / stewards that are thinking about the bigge...
When you spend time looking at a lot of microservices, across many different organizations, you really begin to get a feel for the ones who have owners / stewards that are thinking about the bigge...
I’m working on a healthcare related microservice project, and I’m looking for a way to help developers express their service dependencies within the OpenAPI or some other artifact. At this point I...
I just finished a narrative around my API Stack profiling, telling the entire story around the profiling of APIs for inclusion in the stack. To help encourage folks to get involved, I wanted to he...
I am escalating conversations I’m having with folks regarding how I profile and understand APIs as part of my API Stack work. It is something I’ve been evolving for 2-3 years, as I struggle with d...
I just finished a narrative around my API Stack profiling, telling the entire story around the profiling of APIs for inclusion in the stack. To help encourage folks to get involved, I wanted to he...
I’m working on a healthcare related microservice project, and I’m looking for a way to help developers express their service dependencies within the OpenAPI or some other artifact. At this point I...
I have been editing my OpenAPI definitions manually for some time now, as I just haven’t found a GUI editor that works well with my workflow. Swagger editor really isn’t a GUI solution, and while ...
There is a lot of talk of an API design first way of doing things when it comes to delivering microservices. I’m seeing a lot of organizations make significant strides towards truly decoupling how...
I’m taking time to showcase any API I come across who have published their OpenAPI definitions to Github like New York Times, Box, Stripe, SendGrid, Nexmo, and others have. I’m also taking the tim...
I’m taking time to showcase any API I come across who have published their OpenAPI definitions to Github like New York Times, Box, Stripe, SendGrid, Nexmo, and others have. I’m also taking the tim...
There is a lot of talk of an API design first way of doing things when it comes to delivering microservices. I’m seeing a lot of organizations make significant strides towards truly decoupling how...
Werner Vogels shared a great story looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS, where he talks about the impact Amazon has made on the landscape by allowing for the deployment of resou...
I know many folks in the API sector don’t know about APIs.json, and if they do they often think it is yet another API definition format, competing wit OpenAPI, Postman Collections, and others. So,...
It’s been a long, long road for Twitter when it comes to realizing the importance of having a plan when it comes to their API management strategy. Aside from monetizing the firehose through former...
I’ve pushed my Github driven, Jekyll fueled, application delivery process to a new levels the last couple of weeks. I’ve been investing more cycles into my API Stack work, as I build out an API Ga...
It’s been a long, long road for Twitter when it comes to realizing the importance of having a plan when it comes to their API management strategy. Aside from monetizing the firehose through former...
I was enjoying the REST API Notes newsletter from my friend Matthew Reinbold (@libel_vox) today, and wanted to share my thoughts on his mention of my work while it was top of my mind. I always enj...
I’ve been publishing regular posts from the API design guides of API providers I’ve been studying. API providers who publish their API design guides tends to be further along in their API journey....
There are many actors who have benefitted from Facebook not properly management their API platform. Collecting so many data points, tracking so many users, and looking the other way as 3rd party d...
When I started doing API Evangelist in 2010 I was still very, very, very naive about why people were doing APIs. While I do not always expect everyone doing APIs to be ethical and sensible with th...
There are many actors who have benefitted from Facebook not properly management their API platform. Collecting so many data points, tracking so many users, and looking the other way as 3rd party d...
When I started doing API Evangelist in 2010 I was still very, very, very naive about why people were doing APIs. While I do not always expect everyone doing APIs to be ethical and sensible with th...
I’m big on supporting API providers that publish their OpenAPI definitions to Github. It is important for the wider API community that ALL API definitions are machine readable, and available in a ...
There is lots of talk this week about regulating Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica story broke. Individuals, businesses, lawmakers, and even Facebook are talking about how we begin to better ...
I have a lot of conversations with folks down in the trenches about API security, and what they are doing to be proactive when it comes to keeping their API infrastructure secure. The will and the...
All the controls for Facebook to have done something about the Cambridge Analytics situation are already in place. The Facebook API management layer has everything needed to have prevented the typ...
I have a lot of conversations with folks down in the trenches about API security, and what they are doing to be proactive when it comes to keeping their API infrastructure secure. The will and the...
This is a post that has been in my API notebook for quite a while. I feel it is important to keep showcasing the growing number of API providers who are not just using OpenAPI, but also managing t...
I’m fascinated with the unit of compute as defined by a microservice, OpenAPI definition, Postman Collection, or other way of quantifying an API-driven resource. Asking the question, “how big or h...
I’ve been learning more about the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recently, and have been having conversation about compliance with companies in the EU, as well as the US. In short, G...
I’m processing the recent announcement by Facebook to shut off the access of Cambridge Analytica to it’s valuable social data. The story emphasizes the importance of having a real time awareness a...
I’ve been learning more about the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recently, and have been having conversation about compliance with companies in the EU, as well as the US. In short, G...
I am refining my comprehensive list of stops that I highlight as part of the API lifecycle, or what I call API Transit–the stops that each of the services we deliver will have “pass through” at so...
I am refining my comprehensive list of stops that I highlight as part of the API lifecycle, or what I call API Transit–the stops that each of the services we deliver will have “pass through” at so...
Interactive API documentation is nothing new. We’ve had Swagger UI, and other incarnations for over five years now. We also have API explorers, and full API lifecycle client solutions like Postman...
I was on-boarding with the data marketplace Dawex the other day, and I thought their on-boarding process was interesting. It is pretty rigid, requiring users to validate themselves in multiple way...
The clothing marketplace Zalando has an interesting approach to classifying their APIs based upon who is consuming them. It isn’t just about APIs being published publicly, or privately, they actua...
I’m spending time learning from the API design guides of other leading API providers, absorbing their healthy practices, and assimilating them into my own consulting and storytelling. One API desi...
I’m generating OpenAPI definitions for a wide variety of APIs currently, and I’m regularly stumbling on the messiness of the API design practices being deployed. When you are exposed to a large nu...
Google is renewing its interest in the healthcare space by releasing a protocol buffer implementation of the fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) standard. Protocol buffers are “Googl...
Machine learning API ParallelDots has a story on launching their APIs in multiple languages. Allowing them to “serve a truly global customer base with following language options for our key APIs (...
As I’m working through the API design guides from API leaders, looking for useful practices that I can include in my own API guidance, I’m finding electronic commerce company Zalando’s API design ...
Google is renewing its interest in the healthcare space by releasing a protocol buffer implementation of the fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) standard. Protocol buffers are “Googl...
As I’m working through the API design guides from API leaders, looking for useful practices that I can include in my own API guidance, I’m finding electronic commerce company Zalando’s API design ...
I am profiling APIs as part of my partnership with Streamdata.io, and my continued API Stack work. As part of my work, I am creating OpenAPI, Postman Collections, and APIs.json indexes for APIs in...
I’m continuing my exploration of the API design guidance published by leading API providers. This time, I am taking a look at the API design guide publish by Adidas, specifically the portion of it...
I am pulling together some API design guidance for some projects I’m consulting on, so I’m spending time reviewing the API design guides the leading API providers who have published them publicly....
I’m rebooting my API Stack work as part of my partnership with Streamdata.io. I’m spending a significant portion of my day profiling API providers, documenting what it is they bring to the table. ...
I am pulling together some API design guidance for some projects I’m consulting on, so I’m spending time reviewing the API design guides the leading API providers who have published them publicly....
I’m thinking a lot about what is needed at API runtime lately. How we document and provide machine readable definitions for APIs, and how we provide authentication, pricing, and even terms of serv...
The Postman API Network is one of the recent movements in the API discovery space I’ve been working to get around to covering. As Postman continues its expansion from being just an API client, to ...
Open source software is increasingly driving the federal government, despite the wishes of companies like Oracle. I’ve been watching an interesting project grow within the federal government to he...
Open source software is increasingly driving the federal government, despite the wishes of companies like Oracle. I’ve been watching an interesting project grow within the federal government to he...
Imagine if we didn’t actually write code when we developed our APIs initially. What if the bar for putting an API into production was so high, that many APIs never actually made it to that level. ...
I’ve been profiling a number of market data APIs as part of my work with Streamdata.io to identify valuable sources of data that could be streamed using their service. A significant portion of the...
We are working closely with Axway on a number of projects over here at Streamdata.io. After we got out of a meeting with their team the other day we received an email from them asking if we had an...
I’ve been profiling a number of market data APIs as part of my work with Streamdata.io to identify valuable sources of data that could be streamed using their service. A significant portion of the...
Imagine if we didn’t actually write code when we developed our APIs initially. What if the bar for putting an API into production was so high, that many APIs never actually made it to that level. ...
We are working closely with Axway on a number of projects over here at Streamdata.io. After we got out of a meeting with their team the other day we received an email from them asking if we had an...
It can be tough to know where to start with APIs at your large organization. Everyone is already in motion, in a variety of groups, geographic regions, serving different lines of business. The API...
I find it to be a telling sign of the culture at US companies when it comes to their response, or lack of response to EU regulations. I’ve been curating stories from the API providers that I track...
I’ve been tasked with helping explain API security to senior leadership, and wanted to work through my ideas here on the blog. For this audience, I’m not going to get down into the weeds regarding...
When you take a look at the banking API landscape in the United States, there is one clear leader in the game–Capital One. Their DevExchange program is miles ahead of every one of their competitor...
I am not buying into all the hype around the recent serverless evolution in compute. However, like most trends I study, I am seeing some interesting aspects of how people are doing it, and some po...
Phil Sturgeon (@philsturgeon) alerted me to a pretty cool project he is cooking up, called Speccy. Which provides a rules engine for validating your OpenAPI definitions. “Taking off from where Mik...
While I wish everyone saw the modular potential of APIs and microservices like I do, I’ve come to the realization that most people are just interested in ready to go kits that walk them through ev...
Google launched their Cloud Billing Catalog API, providing access to thee pricing for their cloud API catalog the other day. Azure has their billing API, and AWS has their cost explorer API servic...
Google launched their Cloud Billing Catalog API, providing access to thee pricing for their cloud API catalog the other day. Azure has their billing API, and AWS has their cost explorer API servic...
I am not buying into all the hype around the recent serverless evolution in compute. However, like most trends I study, I am seeing some interesting aspects of how people are doing it, and some po...
While I wish everyone saw the modular potential of APIs and microservices like I do, I’ve come to the realization that most people are just interested in ready to go kits that walk them through ev...
Phil Sturgeon (@philsturgeon) alerted me to a pretty cool project he is cooking up, called Speccy. Which provides a rules engine for validating your OpenAPI definitions. “Taking off from where Mik...
I’m putting some thought into the Schema.Org WebAPI Type Extension proposal by Mike Ralphson (Mermade Software) and Ivan Goncharov (APIs.guru), to “facilitate better automatic discovery of WebAPIs...
I’ve been breaking down the work on banking APIs coming out of Open Banking in the UK lately. I recently took all their OpenAPI definitions and published as a demo API developer portal. Bringing t...
I have been learning all about the banking API efforts out of Open Banking in the UK lately. They are evolving a set of read / write account and transaction API, as well as public data APIs for som...
I had breakfast with Mike Amundsen (@mamund) and Matt McLarty (@MattMcLartyBC) of the CA API Academy team this morning in midtown this morning. As we were sharing stories of what each other was wo...
I recently wrote a response to a recent Department of Veterans Affairs RFI which contained a section about the business of operating government as a microservices platform.I know that many folks w...
I have been learning all about the banking API efforts out of Open Banking in the UK lately. They are evolving a set of read / write account and transaction API, as well as public data APIs for som...
As I prepare to launch the Streamdata.io API Gallery, I am doing a handful of presentations to partners. As part of this process I am looking to distill down the objectives behind the gallery, and...
I’m putting together some presentations for a handful of upcoming engagements, where I’m wanting to help my audience understand what an initial engagement will look like. While I am looking to hav...
As I prepare to launch the Streamdata.io API Gallery, I am doing a handful of presentations to partners. As part of this process I am looking to distill down the objectives behind the gallery, and...
As I prepare to launch the Streamdata.io API Gallery, I am doing a handful of presentations to partners. As part of this process I am looking to distill down the objectives behind the gallery, and...
I’m putting together some presentations for a handful of upcoming engagements, where I’m wanting to help my audience understand what an initial engagement will look like. While I am looking to hav...
I’m working my way through banking and Fintech companies in the UK, and I stumbled across the Starling banking API. I began doing my usual clicking around as I do with any API, looking at the docu...
I’ve been profiling the work of the Open Banking Implementation Entity when nit comes to banking API standards in the UK. As part of my getting up to speed on the banking ecosystem in the UK, and ...
I’m spending some more time thinking about APIs at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in response to round two of their request for information (RFI). A couple months back I had responded to...
I’m spending some more time thinking about APIs at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in response to round two of their request for information (RFI). A couple months back I had responded to...
The primary reason I’ve been adopting more AWS solutions as part of my API stack, and using tools I have historically felt lock me into the AWS ecosystem, is the available of AWS identity and acce...
I sign up for a lot of APIs. I love anything that reduces friction when on-boarding, and allows me to begin making an API call in 1-3 clicks. I’m a big fan of API providers that allow me to signup...
After learning more about what Open Banking is doing for APIs in the UK, I realized that I needed an OpenAPI template for the industry specification. There are six distinct schema available as part...
I’m down in the details of the OpenAPI specification lately, working my way through hundreds of OpenAPI definitions, trying to once again make sense of the API landscape at scale. I’m working to p...
I am profiling banks in the UK as part of an effort move forward my API Stack work, and populate the Streamdata.io API Gallery. One significant advantage that banks in the UK have over other count...
After learning more about what Open Banking is doing for APIs in the UK, I realized that I needed an OpenAPI template for the industry specification. There are six distinct schema available as part...
I’m working my way through several hundred OpenAPI definitions that I have forked from APIs.guru, Any API, and have automagically generated from API documentation scrape scripts I have developed o...
I’m processing a significant amount of OpenAPI definitions currently, as well as crafting a number of them from scraped API documentation. After you work with a lot of OpenAPI definitions, aiming ...
I’m working my way through several hundred OpenAPI definitions that I have forked from APIs.guru, Any API, and have automagically generated from API documentation scrape scripts I have developed o...
I’m working on a ranking API for my partner Streamdata.io to help quantify the efficiencies they bring to the table when you proxy an existing JSON web API using their service. I’m evolving an alg...
I’m reworking my API Stack work as independent sets of Jekyll collections. Historically I just dumped all APIs.json, and OpenAPIs into the central data folder, and grouped them into folders by com...
I’m reworking my API Stack work as independent sets of Jekyll collections. Historically I just dumped all APIs.json, and OpenAPIs into the central data folder, and grouped them into folders by com...
I’m working on a ranking API for my partner Streamdata.io to help quantify the efficiencies they bring to the table when you proxy an existing JSON web API using their service. I’m evolving an alg...
I am creating a lot of OpenAPI definitions right now. Streamdata.io is investing in me pushing forward my API Stack work, where I profile API using OpenAPI, and index their operations using APIs.j...
I am profiling financial market data APIs currently, and as I’m doing my work profiling APIs, I’m always on the hunt for interesting elements of their API operations that I can showcase for my read...
I am working to build out the API Gallery for Streamdata.io, profiling a wide variety of APIs for inclusion in the directory, adding to the wealth of APIs that could be streamed using the service....
I received a tweet from my friend Kelly Taylor with USDS, asking for any information regarding establishing an “approve access to production data” for developers. He is working on an OAuth + FHIR ...
I am creating a lot of OpenAPI definitions right now. Streamdata.io is investing in me pushing forward my API Stack work, where I profile API using OpenAPI, and index their operations using APIs.j...
Over 50% of the projects I consult on still generate OpenAPI (fka Swagger) from code, rather then the other way around. When I first begin working with any API development group as an advisor, str...
When you are operating an API, you are always looking for new ways to be discovered. I study this aspect of operating APIs from the flip-side–how do I find new APIs, and stay in tune with what API...
I was providing an overview of Kong, AWS API Gateway, and other solutions for a team I’m advising a couple weeks back. I was just looking to distill down some of the key features, and provide an o...
I’m regularly surprised by companies who are doing microservices which are failing to see the need the change organizational culture, and that microservices will be some magic voodoo to fix all th...
I’m regularly surprised by companies who are doing microservices which are failing to see the need the change organizational culture, and that microservices will be some magic voodoo to fix all th...
Over 50% of the projects I consult on still generate OpenAPI (fka Swagger) from code, rather then the other way around. When I first begin working with any API development group as an advisor, str...
I was providing an overview of Kong, AWS API Gateway, and other solutions for a team I’m advising a couple weeks back. I was just looking to distill down some of the key features, and provide an o...
I was breaking down what the API management solution Kong delivers for a customer of mine, and I figured I’d take what I shared via the team portal, and publish here on the blog. It is an easy way...
Github is the number one signal in my API world. The activity that occurs via Github is more important than anything I find across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social channels. Commits t...
I am profiling US, UK, French, and German banks as part of some research I am doing for Streamdata.io. I am profiling how far along in the API journey these banks are, and one clear differentiator...
Working with Streamdata.io has forced a shift in how I see the API landscape. When I started working with their proxy I simply saw it about doing API in real time. I was hesitant because not every...
Working with Streamdata.io has forced a shift in how I see the API landscape. When I started working with their proxy I simply saw it about doing API in real time. I was hesitant because not every...
I was breaking down what the API management solution Kong delivers for a customer of mine, and I figured I’d take what I shared via the team portal, and publish here on the blog. It is an easy way...
I’ve been evolving an observability ranking for the APIs I track on for a couple years now. I’ve bene using the phrase to describe my API profiling and measurement approach since I first learned a...
I am profiling a number of market data APIs as part of my research with Streamdata.io. As I work my way through the process of profiling APIs I am always looking for other interesting ideas for st...
I’m profiling a large number of APIs right now, and I am ranking APIs based upon how easy or difficult they are to access. Whether or not an API provide has a business model is part of the ranking...
I get endless waves of people wanting to “guest post” on API Evangelist. It isn’t something I’m interested in because of the nature of API Evangelist, and that it really is just my own stream of c...
I’ve been evolving an observability ranking for the APIs I track on for a couple years now. I’ve bene using the phrase to describe my API profiling and measurement approach since I first learned a...
I am profiling a number of market data APIs as part of my research with Streamdata.io. As I work my way through the process of profiling APIs I am always looking for other interesting ideas for st...
I wrote an earlier article that basic API design guidelines are your first step towards API governance, but I wanted to introduce another first step you should be taking even before basic API desi...
I’m slowly categorizing all the APIs I find who are offering up some sort regional availability as part of their operations. With the easy of deployment using leading cloud services, it is somethi...
I recently watched a BBC documentary about the history of the branding used as part of the London Underground. I’m pretty absorbed lately with using public transit as an analogy for complex API im...
One aspect of my talk at APIDays Paris this last week, included a slide about considering to allow API consumers to negotiate CSV responses from our API. Something that would probably NEVER occur ...
I’m slowly categorizing all the APIs I find who are offering up some sort regional availability as part of their operations. With the easy of deployment using leading cloud services, it is somethi...
I recently watched a BBC documentary about the history of the branding used as part of the London Underground. I’m pretty absorbed lately with using public transit as an analogy for complex API im...
I am profiling market data APIs as part of my partnership with Streamdata.io. It is a process I enjoy, because it provides me with a number of interesting stories I can tell here on API Evangelist...
I’ve been trash talking APIs that identify me as part of some sort of sales funnel, and automate the decision around whether or not I get access to their API. My beef isn’t with API providers prof...
I am learning more about gRPC and HTTP/2, as part of the recent expansion of my API toolbox. I’m not a huge fan of Protocol Buffers, however I do get the performance gain they introduce, but I am ...
Streamdata.io is investing in my API Stack work as we build out their API Gallery of valuable data streaming APIs. I’m powering through hundreds of APIs and using my approach to profiling APIs tha...
I’ve been trash talking APIs that identify me as part of some sort of sales funnel, and automate the decision around whether or not I get access to their API. My beef isn’t with API providers prof...
I am learning more about gRPC and HTTP/2, as part of the recent expansion of my API toolbox. I’m not a huge fan of Protocol Buffers, however I do get the performance gain they introduce, but I am ...
Streamdata.io is investing in my API Stack work as we build out their API Gallery of valuable data streaming APIs. I’m powering through hundreds of APIs and using my approach to profiling APIs tha...
This is one of my talks from APIDays Paris 2018. Here is the abstract: The modern API toolbox includes a variety of standards and methodologies, which centers around REST, but also includes Hyper...
This is one of my talks from APIDays Paris 2018. Here is the abstract: Understanding the PSD2 regulations unfolding for the banking industry is a daunting challenge for banks, aggregators, and reg...
I’ve been working on two talks for API Days in Paris next week. These talks are at two opposite ends of the API spectrum for me. The first one, API Is Not Just REST, is rooted in the technology of...
I’m signing up for a large number of new APIs lately as part of a project I am working on. It is pretty normal for me to sign up for a couple new APIs a week, or 10-20 within a month, but right no...
One aspect of my partnership with Streamdata.io is about helping define what it is that Streamdata.io does–internally, and externally. When I use any API technology I always immerse myself in what...
I’ve been thinking about the potential for measuring value exchange at the API management level a lot more lately, and while I’m working on a project to profile banks that are needing to comply wi...
One aspect of my partnership with Streamdata.io is about helping define what it is that Streamdata.io does–internally, and externally. When I use any API technology I always immerse myself in what...
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As part of my continued effort to break down the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) in Europe, and develop my awareness of how the regulations are intended, as well as the reality on the ground w...
As part of my continued effort to break down the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) in Europe, and develop my awareness of how the regulations are intended, as well as the reality on the ground w...
I’m immersed in studying the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) in Europe, which includes an API definition to help enable the interoperability they are looking to achieve as part of the regulati...
I was doing some work on the AWS API Gateway, and as I was going through their API documentation I found some of the OpenAPI vendor extensions they use as part of operations. These vendor extensio...
My friend Irakli Nadareishvili, has published a new health check response format for HTTP APIs that I wanted to make sure was documented as part of my research. The way I do this is write a blog p...
I am working to understand the value that Streamdata.io brings to the table, and one of the tools I am developing is a set of APIs to help me measure the difference in data received for normal API...
I am working to understand the value that Streamdata.io brings to the table, and one of the tools I am developing is a set of APIs to help me measure the difference in data received for normal API...
I am a big fan API providers taking ownership of their OpenAPI definition, which enables API consumers to download a complete OpenAPI then import into any client tooling like Postman, using it to ...
I was integrating with the Clearbit API, doing some enrichment of the API providers I track on, and I found their API stack pretty interesting. I’m just using the enrichment API, which allows me t...
The concept of API management has been around for a decade now, and is something that is now part of the fabric of the cloud with services like AWS API Gateway. API management is about requiring a...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
I am working to evolve an algorithm for Streamdata.io that helps measure the benefits of their streaming service. There are a couple layers to what they offer as a company, but as I dive into this...
The concept of API management has been around for a decade now, and is something that is now part of the fabric of the cloud with services like AWS API Gateway. API management is about requiring a...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
As I look through the developer, data, and API portals of transit authorities in cities around the United States, one thing is clear–they are all underfunded, understaffed, and not a priority. Thi...
I’m working through the different ways that transit authorities can generate more revenue from their data using APIs as part of my work with Streamdata.io. Making data streaming and truly more rea...
I am working with a number of different groups who are using developer portals in some very different ways once they have moved beyond the concept that API developer portals are just for use in th...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
I’m spending time immersed in the world of transit data and APIs lately, and found a simple, yet useful approach to helping onboard developers over at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Auth...
As I look through the developer, data, and API portals of transit authorities in cities around the United States, one thing is clear–they are all underfunded, understaffed, and not a priority. Thi...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
Everyone wants their API to be used. We all suffer from “if we build it, they will come” syndrome in the world of APIs. If we craft a simple, useful API, developers will flock to it and integrate ...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
One of aspects of a project I’ve been assisting with recently involves helping define, implement, and organize the usage of OpenAPI vendor extensions across a distributed microservice development ...
You hear me say it all the time–if you are selling services and tooling to the API sector, you should have an API. In support of this way of thinking I like to highlight the API service providers ...
Every API should be tested to ensure it delivers what is expected of it. All code being deployed should meet required unit and code tests, but increasingly API testing is adding another layer of a...
Software Development Kits (SDKs), and code libraries in a variety of programming languages have always been a hallmark of API operations. Some API pundits feel that SDKs aren’t worth the effort to...
I’m providing API guidance on a project being delivered to a government agency, as part of my Skylight partnership, and found myself spending more time looking around the AWS compliance department...
You hear me say it all the time–if you are selling services and tooling to the API sector, you should have an API. In support of this way of thinking I like to highlight the API service providers ...
Software Development Kits (SDKs), and code libraries in a variety of programming languages have always been a hallmark of API operations. Some API pundits feel that SDKs aren’t worth the effort to...
I broke this area of my research into a separate stops a couple years back, as I saw several new types of service providers emerging to provide a new type of web-based API client. These new tools ...
The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) format for providing access to transit data has dominated the landscape for most of the time I have been researching transit data and APIs over the la...
API documentation is the number one pain point for developers trying to understand what is going on with an API, as they work to get up and running consuming the resources they possess. From many ...
I’ve been diving into the world of transit data, and learning more about GTFS and GTFS Realtime, two of the leading specifications for providing access to static and real time transit data. I’ve b...
I wrote a piece previously about Consul not supporting Swagger documentation at this time, and the API provider and consumer impact of this decision. I’m going to continue picking on Consul with a...
The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) format for providing access to transit data has dominated the landscape for most of the time I have been researching transit data and APIs over the la...
I was talking with the IRS about their internal API strategy before Christmas, reviewing the teams current proposal before they pitched in across teams. One of the topics that came up, which I tho...
I am working with Streamdata.io on a number of fronts when it comes to our partnership in 2018. One of the areas I’m helping them build, is the partner program around their API service. I’m taking...
A coherent strategy to delivering and operating API portals is something that gets lost in a number of the API operations I am asked to review. It is also one of the more interesting aspects of th...
DNS is one of those shadowy things that tends to be managed by a select few wizards, and the rest of an organization doesn’t have much knowledge, awareness, or access at this level. APIs has shift...
I’ve been studying the overall Apache Stack a lot lately, with an emphasis on Kafka. I’m trying to understand what the future of APIs will hold, and where the leading edge of real time, event-driv...
I was looking for an OpenAPI for the Consul API to use in a project I’m working on. I have a few tricks for finding OpenAPI out in the wild, which always starts with looking over at APIs.guru, the...
I was looking for an OpenAPI for the Consul API to use in a project I’m working on. I have a few tricks for finding OpenAPI out in the wild, which always starts with looking over at APIs.guru, the...
I was talking with the IRS about their internal API strategy before Christmas, reviewing the teams current proposal before they pitched in across teams. One of the topics that came up, which I tho...
I am working with Streamdata.io on a number of fronts when it comes to our partnership in 2018. One of the areas I’m helping them build, is the partner program around their API service. I’m taking...
A coherent strategy to delivering and operating API portals is something that gets lost in a number of the API operations I am asked to review. It is also one of the more interesting aspects of th...
Logging has always been in the background of other stops along the API lifecycle, most notably the API management layer. However increasingly I am recommending pulling logging out of API managemen...
I’m working through research on the world of transit APIs as part of my partnership with Streamdata.io. From what I’ve gathered so far, the world of transit data and APIs is quite a mess, and ther...
The need to manage APIs is one of the older aspects of doing business with web APIs. Beginning around 2006, then maturing, and being baked into the cloud and markets by 2016. Whether it is through...
I was getting ready to write my usual, “wish there was actual data behind this story about a database” story, while reading the Fatal Force story in the Washington Post, and then I saw the link! F...
I’m exploring the different ways that public data access via APIs can be invested in, even with the opportunity for generating revenue, but without charging access to the data itself. I want publi...
My partner Chris Cairns(@cscairns) over at Skylight sent me a link to the Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) Certification, Approval, and Licensing Services (CALS) API on Github the other day. ...
My partner Chris Cairns(@cscairns) over at Skylight sent me a link to the Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) Certification, Approval, and Licensing Services (CALS) API on Github the other day. ...
I was looking for the API definition and schema for the Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI) standard, but all they have were WSDL and XSDs. I am working with the Metropolitan Transi...
API gateways have long played a role in providing access to backend resources via web services and APIs. This is how web services have historically been deployed, but it is also how modern web API...
I recently worked with a large team on a microservices and API governance training a couple months back, where I saw a repeating pattern that I’ve experienced with other large enterprise groups. T...
There are many ways to deploy an API, making this another confusing stop along the API life cycle for some of my readers. My goal in having this be a separate stop from design, or possibly managem...
I was needing an OpenAPI (fka Swagger) definition for the Hashicorp Consul API, so that I could use in a federal government project I’m advising on. We are using the solution for the microservices...
I spend a lot of time trying to understand and define what is API. With my new partnership with Streamdata.io I’m pushing that work into understanding APIs in real time, and as part of event-drive...
I was looking for the API definition and schema for the Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI) standard, but all they have were WSDL and XSDs. I am working with the Metropolitan Transi...
I recently worked with a large team on a microservices and API governance training a couple months back, where I saw a repeating pattern that I’ve experienced with other large enterprise groups. T...
I do a lot of thinking about API discovery, and how I can help people find the APIs they need. As part of this thinking I’m always curious why API discovery hasn’t evolved much in the last decade....
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
After seven years of doing API Evangelist I have learned a lot about the realities of the technology sector, versus my own beliefs. One of the things that attracted me to web APIs in the first pla...
After seven years of doing API Evangelist I have learned a lot about the realities of the technology sector, versus my own beliefs. One of the things that attracted me to web APIs in the first pla...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
I do a lot of thinking about API discovery, and how I can help people find the APIs they need. As part of this thinking I’m always curious why API discovery hasn’t evolved much in the last decade....
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
I look at a lot of APIs. When I land on the home page of an API portal, more often than not I am lost, confused, and unsure of what I need to do to get started. Us developers are very good at comp...
I was sitting in an IT architectural planning meeting for a large enterprise organization the other day, and one of the presentation from one of the executives contained a complex diagram of their...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
This is a series of stories I’m doing as part of my API Transit work, trying to map out a simple journey that some of my clients can take to rethink some of the basics of their API strategy. I’m ...
I was sitting in an IT architectural planning meeting for a large enterprise organization the other day, and one of the presentation from one of the executives contained a complex diagram of their...
It is always telling when folks assume I mean REST when I say API. While the web dominates my definition of API, and REST is definitely a leading architectural style, these assumptions always defin...
I was talking with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about their internal API strategy the week before Christmas, sharing my thoughts on the strategy that they were pitching internally when it co...
I’ve been looking for sources of transit data as part of some research I’m doing with Streamdata.io. Like most industries I study as part of my API research, it is a mess. There is no single sourc...
I have been evolving my approach to mapping out all the stops along my API research, using a subway map approach lately. It has been something I’ve been working on since 2014, and had developed as...
APIs are not forever, and eventually will go away. The trick with API deprecation is to communicate clearly, and regularly with API consumers, making sure they are prepared for the future. I’ve be...
