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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Track Errors, Releases And Cron Jobs In Your Software With Sentry
If you run a website or an app, the worst way to find out it is broken is from a customer. So people search for how to get alerted when their site throws errors, how to know whi...
Create, Track And Report On Issues Automatically With Jira
If your team lives in Jira, you know how much time goes into getting things into it and keeping them current. Bug reports come in from a support form, incidents from a monitorin...
Take Payments, Run Subscriptions And Send Invoices With Stripe
Most people who end up at Stripe did not set out to use an API. They searched for how to accept credit cards on a website, how to charge customers every month, how to send an in...
Automate Projects, Tasks And Team Goals With Asana
Every growing team hits the same wall. Work arrives from email, forms, support tickets and chat, and someone has to copy it into the project tool by hand, assign it, and remind ...
Calculate Sales Tax And File Returns Automatically With Avalara
If you sell into more than one state, or more than one country, you have probably found yourself searching for how to charge the right sales tax on every order, how to know wher...
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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