API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
About API Evangelist
API Evangelist has worked for the last 15 years to make sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs, profiling public and private APIs and distilling down knowledge into a regular cadence of API storytelling, and weekly knowledge building sessions focused on schema, APIs, governance, operations, change, and evangelism.
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The APIs of the World's Top Universities — 634 of Them, and Most Are Library Plumbing
I pulled the API surface for 219 of the world’s top-ranked universities — the QS World University Rankings 2025 set that I built into the API Evangelist network — and went looki...
Obtaining the Control Over Your LinkedIn Data That You Desire
I have ranted several times about how tightly LinkedIn controls our personal user data. They refuse to give you access to your personal profile data via the LinkedIn API. You ca...
Automated Agent Onboarding Is a Naftiko Capability, Not a Gateway Feature
An agent shows up at your API. Not a developer. An agent — Claude doing research for someone, an OpenAI Operator running a task for a user, a first-party agent your own company ...
Where Is the Fortune 1000 at When It Coms to AI — Here Are the Receipts for All 989 of Them
I now have the majority of Fortune 1000 profiled as part of API Evangelist, so I want to continue understanding where they are with AI. Similar to what I am doing with Naftiko S...
Only Four API Providers Publish a Real .well-known/api-catalog Right Now
RFC 9727 has been a published IETF standard for over a year. It defines /.well-known/api-catalog as the machine entrypoint for discovering an organization’s APIs — a small, bori...
Understanding Our Relationship With Technology
API Evangelist has been working to understand our relationship with Internet technology for the last fifteen years, but it has primarily been focused on understanding the producers of the technology, where moving forward I am more interested in understanding the consumers of not just APIs, but the applications they build on top of APIs.
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API Evangelist Conversation with Mike Amundsen on the Lineage of the Web, Hypermedia, Capabilities, and What Comes Next
Mike Amundsen has been writing about hypermedia, REST, microservices, and the semantics of the web for the better part of two decades. In this conversation we walk the lineage —...
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...
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