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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Browse AllMicrosoft Documented Its OpenAPI Extensions For A Decade And Never Registered Them
Of all the extension vocabularies I pulled out of the APIs.io catalog, the x-ms- family is the one where the gap makes the least sense. Not because Microsoft did something carel...
PayPal Lets You Mint a Token, But Not Register the App
I keep coming back to the same wall. A company tells me, loudly, that it is all in on AI, that agents are the future, that everything is autonomous now, and then it asks me to l...
The Blog Was The Retrieval Layer All Along
When I sat down with Emma Kriskinans of Tyk for a conversation about the middle ground on AI, she described a working habit that I found interesting. Every time she figures out ...
Square Made the OAuth Dance Scriptable, but Left Onboarding at the Dashboard Door
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company in this industry is telling me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that software will soon provision and operat...
Speakeasy Has Thirty-Six OpenAPI Extensions And Zero Registered
Yesterday I wrote about Redocly, who registered one of their four OpenAPI extensions and is therefore doing better than almost everybody. Today I want to talk about the largest ...
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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