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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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Who Decides? Policy-Based Authorization for Government APIs
This is the fifth post in my series on Germany’s federal API authorization blueprint. The last four posts got a verified, sender-constrained client all the way up to the door of...
OpenAPI Overlays for Stripping Internal Endpoints Before You Publish
Almost every internal API leak I have ever seen came down to the same thing: a human being was supposed to remember to remove something before hitting publish, and that human be...
I Rebuilt Their OpenAPI From Nine Web Pages. Just Publish It.
Earlier this week I profiled ZotGPT, UC Irvine’s campus-owned generative AI platform, into the API Evangelist network. It came to me through my intern, whose research on how uni...
Forking Is the Easy Part
Yesterday I announced that I am forking Spectral. Copying a repository took an afternoon. Today I sat down to work out how anybody actually switches to it, and that is a much ha...
Driving Towards Capabilities With API Tag Groupings
I came home from APIDays Munich with knowledge graphs stuck in my head after MC’ing a talk from Adorsys on the subject. They are doing some interesting and compelling work build...
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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