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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Pull Local Business Reviews, Ratings And Listings Into Your Software With Yelp
You want to know what people are saying about a restaurant, a plumber or a salon, maybe your own business, maybe a competitor down the street, maybe the hundred locations you ar...
How The Specifications Relate
I get asked a version of the same question almost every week. Do I need OpenAPI or MCP? Is Arazzo a replacement for something? Where does A2A fit? The honest answer is that thes...
Talking The AI Talk Without Walking The AI Walk
Every SaaS homepage I load right now tells me about AI. Agentic this, copilot that, models, intelligence, automation. I wanted to know whether any of it holds up once you go pas...
Measure How Far A Standards Body Actually Got And What Nobody Measured
When someone asks me whether a specification is “real,” they are usually asking about adoption, and they usually get an answer made of vibes: a logo wall, a star count, a confer...
Extending The Business Capability Model For The API Economy
The business capabilities section of APIs.io is built on Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet, an openly licensed enterprise capability model with 333 top-level capabilities ...
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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