API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, policies, and people of APIs since 2010.
About API Evangelist
API Evangelist has worked for the last 15 years to make sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs, profiling public and private APIs and distilling down knowledge into a regular cadence of API storytelling, and weekly knowledge building sessions focused on schema, APIs, governance, operations, change, and evangelism.
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Signals, Stories, and Search
When we started Naftiko, we needed to understand the market we were entering. That meant getting clear on the market forces and the ideal customer profile, the segments and use ...
Who In The API Evangelist Network Has an MCP Server
I just did a fresh pass over every API provider in my network — 6201 repos in the API Evangelist Network — looking for explicit evidence that each provider ships an MCP (Model C...
The Bullshit Levels Came Down at APIDays NYC
I am just processing what happened the last couple of days at APIDays NYC. I spent Wednesday and Thursday. I love events that I can sleep at home each night, but I’d say that AP...
Making the API Evangelist Network Agent-Readable
I spent last night applying my agent-readiness playbook, first written and applied to apis.io, and now across twenty-two subdomains of the API Evangelist network. The result is ...
83 of the Fortune 100 Have a Developer or API Portal
I spent some time this week running a complete inventory of public developer, API, and data portals across every Fortune 100 company. Combined apis.yml metadata across the api-e...
Understanding Our Relationship With Technology
API Evangelist has been working to understand our relationship with Internet technology for the last fifteen years, but it has primarily been focused on understanding the producers of the technology, where moving forward I am more interested in understanding the consumers of not just APIs, but the applications they build on top of APIs.
Latest Conversations
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API Evangelist Conversation With Derek Thompson of Ambassador
Derek Thompson of Ambassador came by for a discussion about code generation and artificial intelligence. I had began engaging with Derek's team about the importance of maintaini...
API Evangelist Conversation With Marc Laventure of Scalar
I sat down today with Marc Laventure of Scalar to talk about their API client and documentation offerings, and how they see OpenAPI as a specification. Marc's taken a slightly d...
API Evangelist Conversation With Juan Cruz Viotti of Sourcemeta About Schema Registries
Juan Cruz Viotti of Sourcemeta came by for a conversation about the schema registry solution he had recently built. Juan has gone deep into the JSON Schema rabbit hole, deeper t...
About the API Evangelist Site
This site is the active daily working toolbox for Kin Lane. Feel free to explore the toolbox, you won't break anything. API Evangelist works out in the open to encourage the reuse of our work, while also demonstrating the potential of evangelizing your API work as it occurs.