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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Zuplo Declares A Whole MCP Server Inside Its OpenAPI
Every agent extension I have written about in this series marks something that already exists in the document. Wistia names an operation for agents. Windmill flags one. Zoho gro...
Arazzo Needs Conformance Testing: Two Runners Should Agree, and Nobody Has Checked
I have spent a week writing about what is being added to Arazzo — SOAP, actor in the loop, RPC, GraphQL, and the functions proposal. Today is about the thing that decides whethe...
Centralized Decisions, Distributed Enforcement, And The Org Chart Behind The Gateway
Yesterday I published The Gateway Is a Tired Concept, Because Gateways Are About Power, and I will own that the headline was link baity. It did its job, the thread on LinkedIn f...
The Gateway Is a Tired Concept, Because Gateways Are About Power
I have been around API gateways long enough to have watched them get sold as the answer to every problem in the space, over and over, for more than a decade. And I have come to ...
Skills Over MCP Is Final, And Now It Needs Servers
The Model Context Protocol has a Skills extension now. SEP-2640 was marked Final when its pull request merged on September 13th, and the work lives in modelcontextprotocol/ext-s...
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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