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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OpenAPI Overlays for Adding Tool-Specific Content Without Polluting the Spec
I keep running into the same slow-motion mess. Somebody hands me an OpenAPI definition that is supposed to be the single source of truth, and when I open it up half the operatio...
Gravitee Gets Closer Than Most to Programmatic API Onboarding
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company on earth is telling me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that software will soon be writing software and call...
From a Prose Style Guide to a Grounded Spectral Ruleset
I am still working my way through the governance tools I have been building under API Commons, a different one each day, and today I want to talk about the one that goes after t...
Turning Spectral Output Into a Report People Actually Read
I am still working my way through the governance tools I have been building under API Commons, one a day, and today’s is the one that finally makes a Spectral run legible to som...
Forging the Agent Layer of Your API
An OpenAPI tells a developer what your API can do. An agent needs more than that. It needs to know which operations are worth turning into tools, what each of those tools is hon...
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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