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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Manage Campaigns, Keywords And Ad Reports Automatically With Google Ads
If you run search ads for your business, you know the routine. Log in, check what each campaign spent yesterday, pause the keywords that are burning money, raise the bids on the...
Send Template Messages, Interactive Flows And QR Codes With WhatsApp
Your customers are already on WhatsApp, and they would rather get the order confirmation, the appointment reminder or the delivery update there than in an email they will not op...
Look Up Payslips, Change Benefits And Log Time With Workday
Your company runs on Workday, and most of what you need from it is a lookup or a request: a worker’s payslips for a mortgage letter, a clock-in from a kiosk that is not Workday,...
Import Records, Build Tables And Get Change Alerts With Airtable
Your team keeps the real list in Airtable: the clients, the content calendar, the inventory, the applicants. It works until the list needs to talk to something else. Orders arri...
Take Payments, Track Inventory And Run Loyalty Rewards With Square
You run a shop, a cafe or a salon on Square. The register works, the money shows up in the bank, and then the questions start. Can the web store and the counter share one produc...
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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