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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Automate Email Flows, Segments And Coupons For Your Online Store With Klaviyo
If you sell online, you already know the emails that earn money: the welcome series, the abandoned cart reminder, the “we miss you” coupon. The hard part is getting the right cu...
Plan Delivery Routes, Track Shipments And Geocode Addresses With HERE
If you run deliveries, service calls or a fleet of any size, you know the daily puzzle: a list of stops, a few vehicles, and the question of who goes where in what order. Then t...
Twelve OpenAPI Validators And The Rules None Of Them Check
When an OpenAPI validator says your document is valid, what has it actually checked? I have assumed the answer for years without ever measuring it. So this week I built an OpenA...
Add Fast Site Search And Build AI Shopping Agents With Algolia
If customers type into the search box on your store or your help center and get nothing useful back, they leave. Good search forgives typos, understands filters like size or pri...
The Business Terms Of An API, Made Machine-Readable
We’ve spent fifteen years making the technical side of an API machine-readable. OpenAPI describes the operations, JSON Schema the shapes, and rate limits, plans and SLAs are get...
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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