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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Publish Offers, Ship Orders And Print Shipping Labels With eBay
You sell on eBay, and the selling part is fine. It is everything around it that eats the week: keying the same listing in for the third time, marking orders shipped one by one, ...
Where A Score Fits In Your CI Pipeline And Your Developer Portal
Two good tooling questions came up in a recent conversation about the Kin Score. Should you run it in CI on every change, watching it go up and down like code coverage? And can ...
Payments And Banking: A Bundle For The Shape Of The Answer
This week I’ve been building bundles that pair a JSON Schema with OpenLint-format rules, after finding out that the decoder only pours part of the bedrock. When I looked at paym...
Grade An API From Zero To One Hundred And Check Which Dimensions Were Actually Scored
A lint report is a list. Two hundred and forty-two diagnostics on a three-operation Petstore is accurate and useless to the person who has to decide whether the API is ready. Wh...
Refresh Datasets, Publish Reports And Embed Dashboards With Power BI
The Monday sales dashboard is stale again because nobody pressed refresh. The same report has to be copied into twelve regional workspaces and pointed at twelve regional dataset...
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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This site is the active daily working toolbox for Kin Lane. Feel free to explore the toolbox, you won't break anything. API Evangelist works out in the open to encourage the reuse of our work, while also demonstrating the potential of evangelizing your API work as it occurs.
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