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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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What I Learned About JOSE on Today's OpenAPI Call
I sat in on the OpenAPI Technical Developer Community call this morning, and somewhere in the middle of a conversation about where the specification goes next, Henry Andrews sto...
We Used To Ask The Clients, Now We Unleash The Dogs
Every specification I have watched grow up had the same quiet machinery underneath it. Someone proposes a change. A handful of people who maintain real clients, the libraries an...
Three Specification Calls in One Thursday
Thursdays have become my specification day. Today I sat in on three calls back to back: the OpenAPI Initiative’s weekly community call, the A2A AI Catalog working session, and O...
The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Open Source Surface
This is part eight of nine in a series walking through the Kin Score one facet a business day. Yesterday I covered Create-or-Update Ergonomics, the first of the conditional face...
Business Capabilities Provide the Context You Need for AI Engineering
I have been talking about capabilities for about two years now as some mystical, far-off destination I was headed toward from the landing of API engineering. A focus on API prod...
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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