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Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
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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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Windmill And The First Collision In The MCP Vocabulary
Yesterday I wrote about Wistia’s nine-key agent vocabulary, which is careful, coherent, and used by exactly one company. Today, Windmill — six keys, also coherent, and the first...
Federation Aligns Schemas, But It Cannot Align People
I have spent a good part of this series arguing for federation — as the thing MCP needs, as the right posture for governance, as the alternative to centralization in almost ever...
Arazzo Wants to Pause a Workflow and Wait for You
Every workflow language eventually runs into the step that is not an API call. Somebody has to approve the deployment. The customer has to agree to finance four of the five thin...
Wistia Built The Best Agent Vocabulary Nobody Knows About
For the last two weeks I have been writing about the SDK generators and documentation platforms whose OpenAPI extensions have spread into other companies’ contracts. Today I sta...
The Business And Politics Of API Portals And Gateways
I was talking with a young Sales Development Representative (SDR) at a startup this week about companies I have knowledge about. I love the eagerness of sales, but I very much e...
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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