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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What To Check Before You Call Your API Production Ready
Someone from a very new startup asked me a great question recently. They could see the ratings across different areas, but how could they use them to say their API is safe to go...
Healthcare: A Bundle For The Shape Of The Answer
Earlier this week I wrote that the decoder only pours part of the bedrock, and started building bundles that pair a JSON Schema with OpenLint-format rules so an inference run ca...
Five Hundred Eighteen Companies Hire For Sarbanes-Oxley And One For The Colorado AI Act
There is a lot of noise right now about AI regulation. Job postings are a good place to check how much of it has turned into work someone is being hired to do. The Q3 2026 Insi...
Manage Orders, Fulfill Shipments And Organize Products With Shopify
Your store is doing well enough that the busywork is starting to hurt. Someone is copying orders from a marketplace into your shop by hand, someone else is pasting tracking numb...
Run AI Prompts In Bulk, Manage Team Workspaces And Deploy Agents With Anthropic
Maybe you have a thousand product descriptions to rewrite, a backlog of support emails to summarize, or a team that keeps pasting the same instructions into a chat window every ...
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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