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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The Arazzo GraphQL Pull Request Is Waiting for Its First Reviewer
Of the four pull requests queued for Arazzo 1.2, this is the one with the lowest bar to being useful. PR #567 from Naresh Jain adds GraphQL operation support. It was opened on S...
Algolia Is The Other Half Of The x-mcp-tool Collision
Last week I wrote about Windmill’s use of x-mcp-tool and mentioned that four providers in my catalog use that key with two incompatible value types. Algolia is one of the four, ...
427 Agent Cards: How They Talk and What They Do
In July I wrote that most published agent cards are not actually A2A. At the time that meant 65 providers out of 22,341 hosts, ten of them conformant, and I called it a starting...
Balancing Determinism vs. Non-Determinism and Build vs. Buy Through Doing the Work to Understand My Capabilities
It costs me an average of $2.00 to profile each provider listed in APIs.io. I have 50+ skills that I will run on each domain identified in the API Evangelist and APIs.io catalog...
Frontier Storytelling
I am working to understand what I consider “Frontier Storytelling” in today’s market, which is the stories that get told and retold on the frontier of the AI market. They aren’t...
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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