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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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Your Agentic Programmability Investment Is an API Foundation Investment
Almost every conversation I have right now about agentic programmability starts in the wrong place. There is budget, there is a mandate from somewhere above, and there is a shop...
Standards and Artifacts: Why the Agentic Turn Rewards What Australia's Banks Already Ship
I want to zoom out from the banks for a minute, because the reason I score any sector at all is not to rank companies — it’s that the reader is changing species. For twenty year...
Filling In the Middle Ground on AI with Emma Kriskinans of Tyk
I find the AI discussion online right now fascinating, and full of technology, business, and political lessons at every turn. This wasn’t always the case. When I left Bloomberg ...
Bringing Coherence to Sprawling Enterprise API Estates
I am working hard to make sense of the programmability of the companies, organizations, institutions, and government agencies I profile at scale, and that work gets expressed th...
Your Agent Should Run Its Own Observability Stack
I wrote earlier today about the self-hosted seed as a business model — a domain-shaped application you plant on your own hardware and evolve with an LLM. That post was about the...
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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