API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
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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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Who Owns The Agent: The Panel At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York
After my keynote at Tyk’s LEAP ON TOUR in New York yesterday, Buddha put me on a panel with Kelly Rogers, who spent five years building AI infrastructure and running AI enableme...
We Had The Agent Protocol In 2008 And We Left It On The Table
On November 20, 2008, Leonard Richardson stood up at QCon and gave a talk he styled after an episode of This American Life. Three acts and a conclusion. The third act was called...
We Did Not Skip Hypermedia, We Moved It Out Of The Response
Earlier today I wrote that we had the agent protocol in 2008 and left it on the table. Leonard Richardson laid out a heuristic at QCon that topped out at hypermedia, meaning lin...
Trust You Can Carry Has To Be Written Down
Mike Goerlich at Curity published the third piece in his Security Sovereignty series today, Who Controls Trust? How Do You Regain It?, and I want to respond to it, partly becaus...
Payments And Banking: The Shape Of The Answer
Earlier this week I wrote about DeepInfer and the shape of the answer. Batch-invariant inference, deterministic sampling, and output constrained to a JSON schema or grammar now ...
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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