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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Two Front Doors for Agents in One Week
Two things happened last week that I keep putting side by side. On October 6, the Model Context Protocol finalized MCP Server Cards, and in doing so it declined to define its ow...
The Kin Score Is Getting A Third Dimension: The Market
I want to draw a line in the sand with this one, while acknowledging we are just getting started. For the last year the Kin Score has measured two things about an API provider:...
Sixty-Four Talks In Stockholm, And The Agenda Aligns With My Keynote
The Nordic APIs Platform Summit opens in Stockholm tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday, 13 and 14 October, and I close it on Wednesday at 15:45 with a talk called The Agent Hype is ...
Ninety-Five Companies Publish Their API Design Rules, And APIs.io Lists Them First
There is a new Rules section on APIs.io, and it exists to answer one question I have been asked for years and could never answer with data: who actually publishes the rules thei...
Decision Models Agreed On The Questions, Not The Contract
A post came across my LinkedIn feed this week asking whether decision models will last as a category, and whether one schema is winning. TypeSafe’s Jev and its System One API. O...
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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